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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The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is in the nature of the infant that which is utterly unknown in the natures of the parents.
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The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.
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Most conservatives know better than to promote the state funding of art. The result of such funding is the mess that modern art has become. Atonal music is to music what subsidized art is to art. ...The fact that cacophony has reigned almost supreme since 1900 is a testimony to Mises' original observation. Atonal music is to music what socialism is to economics: planned chaos.
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God will not speak to me and tell me to mow my lawn today.
