Ian Bogost Quotes
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I write in a small office at home.
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Stars arrive on their own timetable.
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Lucha libre culture was part of my wrestling upbringing. I'm Filipino, so it wasn't a part of my normal upbringing, but it's what gave me my start. I get a lot of my technical and high-flying wrestling from that.
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There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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History is not hatred.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.
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When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.
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I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
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I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
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The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.
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I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
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If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
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You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
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Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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My imagination is closer to a child's imagination than to a grown-up's.
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Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.
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Leaders may recognize that they are not addressing the real problems, but they rationalize their actions with the argument that they must first politically survive in order to later address the hard problems and sacrifices. Of course, they usually don't ever actually get around to addressing the fundamental problems later, either because they don't make it through the initial crisis or because, even later, they are not willing to risk sacrificing their own position or "career" with needed measures that usually require tough sacrifices by the population.
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My lawnmower can't change in the way that my son can or that I can.
