Cory Arcangel Quotes
My real experience with video games was watching other people play. That's why a lot of my work isn't really about playing. It's about watching video games.
Quotes to Explore
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Racism is a physical experience.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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My narrative style centers around intimate, highly subjective depictions of personal experience and internal landscapes. In 'March,' everything fell into place as soon as I began identifying strongly with John Lewis as a young boy and saw how we shared the same kind of gravity and intensity as youngsters.
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A lot of the time we think finances are immediately linked to experience, opportunities, image, and all sorts of important things that can progress us in life. Sometimes they're not. Finances can be completely irrelevant if you allow yourself to feel like things are going well.
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In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.
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I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original 'Goldeneye.' I'm that geek. I have an 'NBA Jam' arcade machine in my office at 'SNL.'
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In New York, you walk everywhere, so you're amongst people all of the time, and everybody is in a hurry and going somewhere or has something on their minds. And in L.A., it's still much more of a laid-back life, at least in my experience.
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Occasionally, especially on video games and with a lot of the fighting stuff, to get what you feel is the proper sound, you have to imitate what you're doing, and occasionally I've gotten carried away and kicked over mic stands or punched things.
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The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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I've always refused to play terrorists.
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I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything. Nobody has that experience, actually.
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In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
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I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.
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I love that I can play around with all types of music.
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I love watching people enjoying food. It's very relaxing for me to cook.
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I like to play by my own rules.
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My first part in a play was one of the witches in 'Macbeth.'
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You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful.
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I listen to a lot of different kinds of music and at the moment I listen a lot to house music.
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I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.
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My real experience with video games was watching other people play. That's why a lot of my work isn't really about playing. It's about watching video games.
