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		I've tried Oculus Rift; I've played with the Steam VR rig. Both are mind-blowing. In a traditional video game setting, in a first-person shooter, you can see a tower in the distance. You can walk up to that tower and use your controller to look up.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rachel Cusk 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edgar Bronfman, Jr. 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm a huge gamer. I play a lot of games, and I play one game until I'm really, really good at it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Osric Chau 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barbara Kruger 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if you've had a hand in pushing forward not only a game but women in sport's movement, then I think that's pretty darn good. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Abby Wambach 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm not a good rapper. For whatever reason, my brain does not work that way. I just do the beginning, like, 'Yeah, yeah! Ha ha! Woo! What up? Come on! Get at me!' I'm Captain Hook. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		I was playing a defensive guard in 'My All American' who is a really fast runner, so a lot of my training was running. I wasn't too worried about bulking up because he was supposed to be on the small side. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Finn Wittrock 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				B. B. King 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zygmunt Bauman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. B. Pritzker 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				K. Flay 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The word 'geek' today does not mean what it used to mean. A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Olivia Munn 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Madeleine M. Kunin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was a fan of T-Pain's music growing up. I bought 'Epiphany' and 'Rappa Ternt Sanga.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Paolo Bacigalupi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		As a kid growing up, I put a lot of pressure on myself. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jack Reynor 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I didn't invent satire. I didn't come up with it. And it will continue to be a very powerful tool to disrupt political taboos and social taboos and religious taboos, because those taboos are always used to control and to curb people's way of creativity and thinking, by making them feel guilty because they want to make a change. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bassem Youssef 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ed O'Neill