Ian Bogost Quotes
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.
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I started breaking out of my shell in sophomore and junior year.
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I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed, but they can never forgive being ignored.
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If I had to face only the Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to say, 'O yes, I am a Christian.'
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It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.
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In a novel there's not much autobiography. There are characters in transit. Naturally, I can project something of my experiences onto the characters, but they have their own autonomy, a personality that is often a mystery to me.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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God will not speak to me and tell me to mow my lawn today.
