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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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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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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What I like about limousines is they have tinted windows, so no-one can see if you're snogging in the back seat.
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I try to find a way that the other guy hasn't thought of using a sound or a sample.
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When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.
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Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in their pregnant causes mixed/ Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,/ Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain/ His dark materials to create more worlds,--/ Into this wild Abyss the wary Fiend/ Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while,/ Pondering his voyage; for no narrow frith/ He had to cross.
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My lawnmower can't change in the way that my son can or that I can.
