John Hodgman Quotes

In the '80s and '90s, I was really interested in, moved by, exhilarated by, and troubled by rap in all the ways a white person from Brookline, Massachusetts should be. That was music that was making trouble, and it was interesting and provocative trouble.

John Hodgman

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MusicInterestingWhitePersonRap

The benchmark of quality I go for is pretty high.

Jimmy Page

QualityGoHighPrettyBenchmark

I know the power of going to Mount St. Helens, and to see that level of devastation is quite something - the power of tsunamis, etc. But it's human cruelty, the base level of humanity, that scares me most.

John Hillcoat

PowerMeHumanityKnowHumanSee

Politics is a pendulum.

Ana Navarro

PoliticsPendulum

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

Soren Kierkegaard

GodYouSayNothingMoreOut

I don't know if a penny's dropped somewhere, but you've had 'Lark Rise to Candleford,' you've had 'Cranford,' you've had 'Last Tango in Halifax,' you've had 'Call the Midwife'... I think the largest portion of the viewing public are over 55, and they like to see people they can identify with.

Judy Parfitt

PeopleThinkPennyYouRiseKnow

I definitely have a lot of different layers inside of me.

Jason Mitchell

MeInsideLayersDifferentLot

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Josh Billings

TravelYourselfChildGoWayBring

I like stories that have a social impact and social attributes to them. That's the whole reason we make films: to broaden our limited view of things and to see how life is evolving elsewhere.

Djimon Hounsou

LifeImpactViewReasonSeeThings

Men who wear turtlenecks look like turtles.

Doris Lilly

MenLookWearWhoLike

What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?

Douglas Coupland

GodPeopleWhat IfOutLikeHe

Companies that are design-led understand that design is not a deliverable; it is a profound manifestation of the human spirit.

Debbie Millman

DesignUnderstandSpiritHuman Spirit

I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it.

Colin Baker

MeDoctorThinkBottomBeenWould

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