Ian Bogost Quotes
I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful insights that play provides.
Quotes to Explore
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.
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I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'
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I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
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Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
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I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.
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I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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I go wild on a stage. Some folks have measured us an image. They pretend us to be saints. And that image is much tougher to keep up with. Because that's not who we are.
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There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman.
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I think, with music in general, people just inevitably connect with feeling. The opportunity to hear expressed feeling. That's what has always drawn me towards music. It's something where, by connecting to someone else's voice, I feel less lonely. I feel more alive. I feel more connected to the world and to the rest of humanity. Sometimes a voice can be like a lifeline.
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One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.
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I've always been pretty serious and introspective.
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I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful insights that play provides.
