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 read everything and anything. I love books.
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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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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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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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Be present, from moment to moment, right in the middle of the real stream of time. That gives you spiritual security. That is why in Buddhism we don't try to escape from impermanence; we face time itself in our daily living.
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Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh heavier than lead, and with their wings exceedingly small. He did not, and that ought to show something. It is only in order to shield your ignorance that you put the Lord at every turn to the refuge of a miracle.
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We cannot exert our understanding without from time to time understanding something of importance; and this act of understanding may be accompanied by the awareness of our understanding, by the understanding of understanding, by noesis noesos, and this is so high, so pure, so noble an experience that Aristotle could ascribe it to his God.
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God will not speak to me and tell me to mow my lawn today.
