"Here's the thing: I am not only a……" — John Hodgman
"Here's the thing: I am not only a creature of civilization, I'm an asthmatic person. I will only live so long as I have stockpiled the proper inhalers. I'm effectively a cyborg. You know how in Jurassic Park, they bred those dinosaurs with the lysine deficiencies, so if they ever got off the island, they'd die? That's me."
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65 Quotes by John Hodgman
John Hodgman has 65 quotes on this site.
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We estimate that there are perhaps 20,000 prehistoric hunter-gatherers frozen up in those glaciers. Now, if they simply thaw and…
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For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it…
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This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.
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This is not to say there are not Chicagoans. But I would suggest that they are a nomadic people, whose…
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Tonally, there was no discussion; I just don’t know any other way to do it. I don’t want to make…
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Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.
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Specificity is the soul of narrative.
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I think there are very few invisible musical instrument players out there who can claim the chops and sheer perseverance…
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Even in my own life, there are memories I have that are difficult to explain - happenings that are so…
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There is no ritual that enhances creativity other than just starting.
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As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or…
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Comics have a problem, and that is continuity - the obsession with placing the characters in an existing world, where…
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More Asthmatic Quotes
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one of 14 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The air conditioning in Lamborghinis used to be an asthmatic sitting in the dashboard blowing at you through a straw.
— Jeremy Clarkson
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And the blunts and liquor killing our lungs and liver. The asthmatic drug-addict, I function with it
— Black Thought
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Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.
— Gerald Scarfe
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To stop smoking was actually really easy because I had already started to cut down. My husband is asthmatic, and…
— Holly Marie Combs
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It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant,…
— Alfred Hitchcock
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I was a fat child; I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.
— Alber Elbaz
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I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart…
— Stephen Fry
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You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor,…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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And a utility belt! I'm like an asthmatic Batman!
— Michael Buckley
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As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief,…
— Patrick White
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I'm asthmatic. I was a lot bigger back then, and I still get winded on stage today. But I've learned…
— Meat Loaf
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