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Tom Hodgkinson Quotes

Of all the depressing abuses of language in business, there is none that gets me so incensed as the rampant overuse of the word 'passionate' in company slogans, marketing blurbs, mission statements and on the sides of vans.

Tom Hodgkinson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: british
Birth: 1968

Topics

Business Me Language Mission Company

I wanted to make a late-night-type show that happened to be in the morning for moms. Bravo was more interested in a blend of my books 'Momzillas' and 'Sometimes I Feel Like a Nut,' which is a collection of nonfiction essays.

Jill Kargman

Morning Feel Sometimes More Blend

Fortunately for me, I'm married to an amazing woman - Nancy Lasseter - who is wise enough not to let me buy every car I want. If I was single, I would be living in a very small apartment and renting a warehouse full of cool cars.

John Lasseter

Car Woman Wise Amazing Me Cool

Literature plays a huge role in examining difficult real-life issues.

Angie Thomas

Literature Difficult Role Issues

I can watch anything from 1970s West Coast rock to 1990s electro-funk - I don't care.

Stephen Mangan

Care I Can Rock Anything West Coast

I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.

Rita Rudner

Class Muscle Out Got Because Mine

I was a fly on the wall at Gawker Media during the heyday of this thing called blogging.

Mary Pilon

Fly Media Wall Blogging Thing

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

Dolly Parton

Think Church Emotion Sing I Think

One of the reasons that New York became great was that it's serviced by many, many different rivers and waterways. You have the Atlantic Ocean connected virtually right to it, and it's serviced by the East River and the Hudson River and lots of tributaries.

Donald Trump

Great Ocean New York River You New

Pennsylvania is home to some of the hardest-working, toughest, most decent people in America.

Bob Casey, Jr.

Home People America Decent Most

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Wisdom Yourself You More Give Than

On camera, the audience can see your eyes close up - they can see behind your eyes - and when you're on stage, you need to make sure that the person sitting in the back row can feel what's happening behind your eyes, even if they can't see them. Having a live audience is exhilarating and exciting all on its own, but you know, it is quite different.

Annaleigh Ashford

Live Eyes Feel Camera You Back

'm not saying I would never do acting again, because I love it, but there really is nothing compared to getting up in front of people and singing your music.

Schuyler Fisk

Love Music People Singing Saying Up