Ian Bogost Quotes
We think we want enjoyment, and that enjoyment is incompatible with work, and somehow we have to import the pleasure into these miserable experiences. That takes for granted that there's not fun or play to be found in the work itself.
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I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
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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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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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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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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.
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You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what they're saying, it's quite hard to find cracks.
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It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.
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When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.
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The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.
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I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.
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Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?
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No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow.
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The question is, why are we doing so well? The answer is, I try not to think about it too much. I just do what's fun.
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The small family farm is dying; people's lives are being dislocated.
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I don't write stories about despair. I write stories about hope.
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We think we want enjoyment, and that enjoyment is incompatible with work, and somehow we have to import the pleasure into these miserable experiences. That takes for granted that there's not fun or play to be found in the work itself.
