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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There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.
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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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In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business.
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My mom's a Christian and she loves me; that whole side of my family is Christian and I have no problem with it.
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If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you.
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It was fun. It was fun coming to the ballpark and competing with these guys. If we were down, if we were up, it didn’t matter. We were always having fun. It was a joy.
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I believe that people should value family and value friendships and hold those things sacrosanct.
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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.
