Ian Bogost Quotes
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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I write in a small office at home.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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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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Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.
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I'm not really emotionally dependant on anybody except my son, my daughter-in-law, and my grandchildren. But a partner... I haven't felt like that for so many years, I don't really remember what it was like.
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Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.
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Soccer is easy if you work hard at it.
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Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
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My lawnmower can't change in the way that my son can or that I can.
