Ian Bogost Quotes

Every now and then if you try, you can discover something new.

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• Never count on the crowd to take care of you.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Never
  • Care
  • Take Care

• Some days, just occasionally, when I've had just one too many chickpeas, drizzles of olive oil or chunks of feta, I crave a return to the sushi-filled joints of Tokyo.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Days
  • Oil
  • Tokyo

• Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Mind
  • Existence
  • Aim

• If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Life
  • Die
  • Taken

• Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Business
  • Learning
  • Best

• I think the main reason is that people binge watch because they can. We're like dogs, really. If we like something, we tend to gorge ourselves on it until there's no more left. And as bingeing becomes possible and commonplace, it's only natural that shows should start to take it into account.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Think
  • Start

• My musical career was an accident.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Career
  • Musical
  • Accident

• I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Try
  • I Can
  • Filmmaking

• It's good to actually cry. Trust me, I've had a lot of practice over the years!

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Good
  • Trust
  • Practice

• I always believed in my characters. I lived them.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Always
  • Characters
  • Lived

• Rey's parents left her at 5, and we meet her when she's late teens or early 20s, and for someone to keep hopeful that there's a better life to come, I think, is astounding. Though she starts off alone, she very much finds her place in a group of people, and that's lovely.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • People
  • Life
  • She

• A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

  

  Tacitus
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Desire

• The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

  

  Kelly Sue DeConnick
  • Different
  • Women

• When I was married, or a few years ago, I never thought I was fat. I never thought I was huge. I was like, 'I still look good. I'm just made to have curves or be a little bigger.'

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Good

• Obviously you can't please everyone. I'm sure some people say, 'Bloody old Len Goodman gets on my nerves.'

  

  Len Goodman
  • People

• Twitter is a form of free speech, and I'm all for that. But if Cee Lo Green, a maverick of sorts, can't get on Twitter and say something outlandish or outrageous, then what is the whole point of Twitter at all?

  

  CeeLo Green
  • Free
  • Green

• What can we do to put more Colorado in Washington and less Washington in Colorado?

  

  Cory Gardner

• I need boundaries. In the modern studio there are a bunch of instruments around me, and I can simulate anything I can't play, so sometimes the palette feels too big.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails

• I believe really deeply in the pilot process because you learn things about tone and casting. Even some of our best shows have had substantial re-shoots and reworking before they've gone on the air.

  

  John Landgraf
  • Believe
  • Air

• If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights. Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.

  

  Laurence Olivier
  • Life
  • Art
  • Mad

• When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.

  

  George Washington
  • Mind
  • President
  • Humans

• A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.

  

  William Dean Howells
  • Men
  • Mother
  • Mom

• Every now and then if you try, you can discover something new.

  

  Ian Bogost