Videogame Quotes

• When life gives you lemons don't make lemonade, make pink lemonade. Be unique.

  Wanda Sykes

  Unique, Giving, Caves

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• A God. The God. One word can make all the difference in the world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Differences, World, Half Life

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• When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your D*** lemons, what the h*** am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

  J.K. Simmons

  Men, Who I Am, Giving

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• What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

  Andre Malraux

  Men, Keeping Secrets, Littles

  ANDRE MALRAUX (1968). “ANTI-MEMOIRS”

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• Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.

  Ernest Cline

  Being Human, Bearable, Humans

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• What doesn't kill you makes you smaller

  Mario

  Funny, Humorous, Character

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• Some trees flourish, others die. Some cattle grow strong, others are taken by wolves. Some men are born rich enough and dumb enough to enjoy their lives. Ain't nothing fair. You know that.

  John Marston

  Strong, Taken, Men

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• Certainly the format of ghostbusting lends itself to a videogame beautifully.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Format

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• I have been saying this for some time, but customers are not interested in grand games with higher-quality graphics and sound and epic stories. Only people who do not know the video game business would advocate the release of next-generation machines when people are not interested in cutting-edge technologies.

  Hiroshi Yamauchi

  Cutting, Epic, Technology

  "Top 10 Tuesday: Wildest Statements Made by Industry Veterans" by Matt Casamassina, www.ign.com. March 14, 2006.

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• What I created got abominated.

  Ralph H. Baer

  Creating, Criticism, Creation

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• Everything we have today that's cool comes from someone wanting more of something they loved in the past. Action figures, videogames, superhero movies, iPods: All are continuations of a love that wanted more.

  Patton Oswalt

  Past, Ipods, Superhero

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• There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.

  John Romero

  Art, Together, Different

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• I never let any of my sons beat me at video games.

  Coolio

  Son, My Son, Beats

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you play a videogame, you could be a completely different person than you are in the real world, certain aspects of the way your brain works can be leveraged for something you could never do in the real world.

  Christopher Nolan

  Real, Play, Brain

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• Videogames need more women and are too reliant on male, stubble-covered heroes.

  Rhianna Pratchett

  Hero, Males, Needs

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• We know that drugs, sex and rock and roll stimulates something called dopamine in the brain. So do videogames. Dopamine is something that we crave.

  Devra Davis

  Sex, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both.

  John Green

  Winning, Player, Games

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• Videogames are a little more work and they're a little more stilted.

  Carlos Alazraqui

  Littles

  Interview with Chris Carle, www.ign.com. July 18, 2006.

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• As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone else's story - and much more toward enacting one's own story. Moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Moving, Playing Games, Role Playing

  "Douglas Rushkoff on Khaleesi Lady Gaga and why Sopranos' end works but Lost's doesn't". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. March 22, 2013.

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• I always try and come up with a clear theme when I'm making a videogame.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Trying, Come Up, Theme

  "Sensei Speaks". Interview with Peer Schneider and Matt Casamassina, www.ign.com. January 29, 1999.

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• When I hear young people today complain about being bored - and the things that keep them from being bored are generally exclusively videogames and/or computer pastimes - I just try to encourage them to go outside.

  Nick Offerman

  People, Bored, Trying

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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• When I play videogames I'm trying to go deep every pitch. I'm definitely not going to try to do that in real life. In the (video)game I'm trying to leave the yard.

  Dustin Pedroia

  Real, Games, Play

  Source: www.bayareasportsguy.com

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• More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of kids get stories from.

  Andy Serkis

  Kids, Space, Playing Roles

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• We are moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Moving, Playing Games, Role Playing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm definitely not up-to-date on the high-tech videogame world.

  Rachel Dratch

  Technology, World, Up To Date

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