Ian Bogost Quotes

No one wakes up and says, "Yay I get to mow the lawn!" But if I can find meaning there, then there's nowhere I can't find meaning.

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• Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Live
  • Kids
  • Hope

• Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Wrong
  • Stand
  • Him

• I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Girl
  • Try

• To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Want
  • Negative
  • Recognition

• I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • City
  • Washington
  • Call

• The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • People
  • Calm
  • Worried

• I don't want to be someone else.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • Someone
  • Else

• Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Support

• You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Live
  • Reality
  • Dark

• Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Wish

• Back when I was restoring art and antiques, finding ivory was very difficult because it's illegal, and the only difference between bone and ivory is that bone is free and not illegal.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Art
  • Free
  • Finding

• In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • World
  • Picture
  • Club

• Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • You
  • Always
  • Opportunities

• I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Writing
  • American
  • America

• With these big superhero movies, everybody is so tight-lipped about everything, there's a certain amount of just going on faith.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Faith
  • Movies
  • Superhero

• The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Space
  • Friend
  • Moon

• The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • Help
  • Need

• Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • School
  • Child
  • Child Labor

• The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

  

  James Allen
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Power

• We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.

  

  Chen Shui-bian

• I'm gonna keep it in the fridge. You know. Its a food item.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Food
  • Fridge

• My parents divorced when I was 3 years old. They had a lounge act in Las Vegas, where I was born. The band broke up and the marriage dissolved, and my mother, my sister and I moved to Southern California. And I didn't see my dad a lot growing up; he was on the road a lot. I'd see him every couple years.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Parents

• When I was a kid, we'd go to the movies, and my parents would reach out to everyone around us in the theater, most of whom could barely afford the movie ticket. They'd hand out popcorn and Milk Duds, strike up conversations with them, lend shoulders to cry on, learn their names, and smile at everyone.

  

  Daniel Lubetzky
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Parents

• No one wakes up and says, "Yay I get to mow the lawn!" But if I can find meaning there, then there's nowhere I can't find meaning.

  

  Ian Bogost
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