"We have all been empowered by the web:……" — John Hodgman
"We have all been empowered by the web: everyone with a keyboard can now effectively broadcast to a national audience. In a sense, it puts each of us on the same footing as the major media conglomerates, except for AOL, who now apparently own all our thoughts and teeth."
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John Hodgman
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65 Quotes by John Hodgman
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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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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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