Ian Bogost Quotes
This willingness to be frank and plain about the way that the world is, is a good first step. But that doesn't mean that you get what you want.
Ian Bogost
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The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.
Naguib Mahfouz
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You've got the Trump water and Trump Steaks and Trump's very so-called dodgy university. And so many of the towers, the Trump towers around the world, the Trump resorts around the world, those are not owned by the Trump Organization.
Naomi Klein
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I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.
Carine Roitfeld
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
Jack Canfield
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Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
Walt Disney
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I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
Orson Welles
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I practice on the roads of Gaza as we don't have good stadiums and tracks so I gave my best.
Nader al-Masri
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Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.
Walter Huston
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Monologues are self-verifying and self-referencing, a world in their own right, one with its own internal logic that strengthens with reiteration.
Samantha Harvey
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I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
Tahar Rahim
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If you don't use good ingredients, the outcome is never going to be excellent. But if you buy the freshest ingredients that are in season, at their peak, and you cook with them, you can't really go wrong.
Gail Simmons
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I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.
Tadao Ando
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Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
William James
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God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?
Philip Yancey
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Productive givers focus on acting in the long-term best interests of others, even if it's not pleasant. They have the courage to give the critical feedback we prefer not to hear, but truly need to hear. They offer tough love, knowing that we might like them less, but we'll come to trust and respect them more.
Adam Grant
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Well you know, I think a lot of us in marriage know that you play different roles at different times. And Mitt can get very intense, and I can have the ability to kind of talk him off the rails sometimes and say, 'Hey let's look at what is really important and let's do that now.'
Ann Romney
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My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles.
Warren Giles
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This willingness to be frank and plain about the way that the world is, is a good first step. But that doesn't mean that you get what you want.
Ian Bogost
