Ian Bogost Quotes
Fun has to do with habitual activities but then also terrifically novel or unusual ones. It works as a sort of strange milkshake of those concepts.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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After you get what you want you don't want it.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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The primary way that we know about what lives in the ocean is we go out and drag nets behind ships. And I defy you to name any other branch of science that still depends on hundreds-of-year-old technology. The other primary way is we go down with submersibles and remote- operated vehicles. I've made hundreds of dives in submersibles.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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Sometimes it gets a little too bubblegum for me, but what I do love about KPop videos is their attention to detail, and their choreography and dancing are always spot-on.
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I think we should balance the federal budget tomorrow. I'm optimistic. I think Americans are optimistic. We went to the moon; we can balance the federal budget.
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My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.
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Our research is so complex that the resources of a single region of the world are no longer enough - both intellectually and economically, it must be a global effort.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
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I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.
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I came out of what we romance writers call The Romance Ghetto, because we get so little respect.
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Oh, Alexander Hamilton fell short of his best self every now and again, and he still managed to do these wonderful things - well, so do I. So what am I capable of?
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I really do feel like music is the only thing that I can do.
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People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.
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I would love to be doing more voice-over work. It's such a fun and free playground to take risks, play around, and get sort of ridiculous.
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Fun has to do with habitual activities but then also terrifically novel or unusual ones. It works as a sort of strange milkshake of those concepts.
