Hank Green Quotes

#1. But the truth of the matter is, to live a good life, as a good person, it doesn't matter how you got there. It just matters that you do.

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#2. Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.

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#3. We've got to keep 6 billion people happy without destroying our planet. It's the biggest challenge we've ever faced ... but we're taking it on.

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#4. It seems no matter what I read I think this is not harry potter.

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#5. It turns out, somehow, there are a tremendous number of things to be optimistic about.

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#6. Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. What's excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly

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#7. So you go on and on, with this intellectual fly down, your underwear exposed, and toilette paper hanging out the back of your pants.

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#8. John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though.

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#9. I'm also pretty impressive when I'm shoving the neck of a lute into someone's chest cavity.

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#10. I know that that doesn't make even a little bit of sense. That was the point, that beautiful incongruence.

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#11. So the president is like, "Well, once upon a time it was Congress's job to decide whether or not we attacked countries, so let's let them decide." Which is funny, because, as we all know, if Congress were on fire, Congress could not pass the "Pour Water on Congress Act".

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#12. I honestly don't know how you live without having a cat inside your house. It's like having a little living piece of art that is also very warm and soft.

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#13. We need more completely sane people doing completely crazy things.

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#14. Solve more problems than you create.

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#15. Hoaxes are nothing new. News media isn't hard to fool. It's fun to fool and people like to mess with people. It all goes to show you that we're not all that hard to fool. I think we should just accept that and trust people anyway.

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#16. Stop listening to people telling us we need to hate each other

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#17. You have no obligations to your former self, they are dumber than you and they don't exist.

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#18. I forgot how to throw a boomerang, but then it came back to me.

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#19. Think of people as people, not problems that need to be solved.

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#20. Legacy media accuses young people of being apathetic while actively attempting to remove them from the discussion.

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#21. I think it's pretty ridiculous to sit back and think that we've changed the horse so much, without realizing that they have changed us an awful lot too.

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#22. I have very little patience for teachers who teach their students things that are wrong.

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#23. We are all differently broken, semi-functional, rusted out love machines

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#24. Bravery is not strength in the face of a far lesser foe. Bravery is the exact opposite of that.

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#25. If you were a crayon, what color would you most like to make out with?

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#26. Sometimes I feel like when someone asks me if I believe in God, it's like a blind person asking if I'm black, so that they can put me in the right category.

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#27. The infernal day star is shining its radiation down upon us. I can feel it giving me cancer.

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#28. What does it mean that social structures among young people are so often predicated upon trying really, really hard to appear to not-be-trying?

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#29. ...the world is complicated and it deserves to be understood complexly.

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#30. You sense and feel something different than I do, even if we lick the same kitten.

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#31. We often just accept the things that we like, and complain a lot about the things that we don't like. But if we could, like, intensely dwell on the really great things in life the way we intensely dwell on the negative things in life; I think that would be fantastic.

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#32. Don't worry about looking cool. Do you because you are awesome.

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#33. Making an un-perfect decision is far, far better than not making a decision, which is the worst possible decision you could make.

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#34. Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.

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#35. We are the superhero, none of us individually, but all of us together.

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#36. It's almost as if our society values opinion over knowledge.

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#37. I live in the present due to the constraints of the time-space continuum.

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#38. You are always a little bit wrong

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#39. Next time you have a bad day, remember that it is amazing that you are alive at all, much less a member of a self-aware species living at the height of human technological progress.

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#40. Why is it called Piggie-back riding? I'm not a piggie!

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#41. You may be wondering why there are words on my hands. That's because I'm a dork. And I'm gonna choose not to explain myself.

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#42. We are all bat people.

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#43. I need Harry Potter like a grindylow needs water.

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