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People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.

John Hodgman

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John Hodgman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: June 3
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Just a small-scale cult of personality, maybe raise a geodetic dome out in western Massachusetts and make people wear jumpsuits and give all their possessions to me.
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By the way, if I have my own cult of personality with my own geodetic dome in western Massachusetts, I will have a hurt yurt for anyone who crosses me.
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