August 2011
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December 2010
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“I love finding things that make you go, ‘Oh! I couldn’t do that, I...”
– -Paul Barnett, Creative Director of Bioware Mythic, on the Giant Bombcast extolling the simple genius behind Namco’s Pac-Man Championship Edition DX
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“One thing the blues ain’t, is funny.”
– -Stephen Stills
May 2010
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“As soon as someone asks you for advice, they aren’t going to do it. The...”
– -Rob Zombie, songwriter/director/writer, on The Nerdist podcast about starting out
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“You have a bazooka, why don’t you blow some shit up? Stop thinking Prague...”
– Xander Cage, villain, xXx (2002)
April 2010
1 post
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“I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a...”
– -Ira Glass, radio host of NPR’s This American Life
March 2010
15 posts
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“Design is [quite simply] a plan for action.”
– -Brian Collins, designer/teacher/problem maker
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“3-D is a distracting, annoying, anti-realistic, juvenile abomination to use as...”
– -via Roger Ebert’s Twitter, film critic of Ebert and Roeper at the Movies
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“The search engine Bing is kinda like Arby’s… you know it exists but...”
– -Paul Scheer, comedian/member of MTV’s The Human Giant
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“USELESS FACT:
Britney Spears is an anagram for Presbyterians.”
– (via cheaperthanacupofjoe)
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“Once you kill a cow, you gotta make a burger.”
– Lady Gaga to Beyoncé in her latest Quentin Tarantino-inspired music video
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“How are a wedding and a porno different? One costs a whole lot of money and has...”
– Craig Ferguson, comedian/late night talk show host/punk rock lover/Scottsman
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“Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.”
– Shirley Manson, songwiter/Scottswoman/guitarist/sex symbol
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“The penguin joke? Two penguins are standing on an ice floe. The first penguin...”
– -Garrison Keillor, host of Prairie Home Companion
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“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”
– -Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of England among other things
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“I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.”
– -Ian Fleming, British journalist/author, originator of James Bond
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“The stuff we give away most sells the most.”
– -Martin Atkins, drummer of Pigface/Ministry/Public Image Ltd., Invisible Records owner, entrepreneur, and one hell of a speaker
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“Songs have to be simple. It’s not like you have a huge canvas to paint on or a...”
– -Sting, singer, songwriter, philanthropist
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“I have a complicated relationship with grammar.”
– Ezra Koenig, front man and guitarist of Vampire Weekend
February 2010
14 posts
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“Develop a built-in bullshit detector.”
– Ernest Hemingway
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“You cannot force passion unless you are in a dark room for two hundred dollars...”
– -Me after walking out of Tom Lichtenheld’s Friday Forum speech today
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“When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your...”
– Jeff Bridges
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“Stripping toughened my hide, but exposing myself as a writer has been a lot more...”
– Diablo Cody
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“Dear Walt, I feel somewhat presumptuous addressing you in this way. Yet I am...”
– Roy Kroc - American businessman, (one-time) owner of McDonald’s
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“[about Charles Darwin] He got totally hammered, woke up in bed next to a monkey...”
– Steven Colbert - The Colbert Report
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“Has there ever been a musician of cultural significance who’s been aware...”
– Pete Doherty - NME (New Musical Express), March 13, 2004
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“A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever...”
– Federico Fellini
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“The economy can’t kill what makes your agency a great place to work; only...”
– Bart Cleveland, Creative Director at McKee Wallwork Cleveland
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“You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you...”
– Robert Plant
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Copy is vital
“Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.” - Marshall McLuhan
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Not my time yet
On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. “When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, ‘They have no more wine.’ Dear woman, why do you involve me?’ Jesus replied. ‘My time has not yet come.’” - John 2:1-4 [NIV]
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Obsession with revenge
“Everyone deals with grief differently, right? Some people fuck at funerals. I cut off heads.” - Travis Touchdown, No More Heroes 2
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On Comedy
“People always say, ‘Were you the class clown?’ I always maintain that most of the comedians that you enjoy today, the vast majority were not the class clown. I think the class clown often ends up dead or in jail. The class clown, who is sitting on a chair, rocking back, and throwing things out of a window, that guy tends to get himself into trouble in his early twenties and it...