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• If you ask me, the hypothetical zenith of gaming technology is direct neural interface - no body to hamper you and your brain is in whatever you want it to be in. Plus it leads to existential uncertainty, which could be entertaining.

  Yahtzee Croshaw

  Technology, Brain, Zenith

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• And while good books - even so-so books - serve both functions, if you ever have to choose one over the other, keep in mind that a book that entertains without enlightening can still be a guilty pleasure, but a book that enlightens without entertaining is algebra.

  Pete Dexter

  Book, Mind, Enlightening

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• Those who applaud social production and networked amateurism, the colorful cacophony that is the Internet, and the creative capacities of everyday people to produce entertaining and enlightening things online, are right to marvel. There is amazing inventiveness, boundless talent and ability, and overwhelming generosity on display. Where they go wrong is thinking that the Internet is an egalitarian, let alone revolutionary, platform for our self-expression and development, that being able to shout into the digital torrent is adequate for democracy.

  Astra Taylor

  Thinking, Self, Expression

  Astra Taylor (2014). “The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age”, p.62, Metropolitan Books

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• I understand entertaining. You want people to walk out saying, I spent a night with interesting people.

  Aby Rosen

  Night, People, Interesting

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• Gary Greenberg is a thoughtful comedian and a cranky philosopher and a humble pest of a reporter, equal parts Woody Allen, Kierkegaard, and Columbo. The Book of Woe is a profound, and profoundly entertaining, riff on malady, power, and truth. This book is for those of us (i.e. all of us) who've ever wondered what it means, and what's at stake, when we try to distinguish the suffering of the ill from the suffering of the human.

  Gideon Lewis-Kraus

  Book, Mean, Humble

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• Fair and balanced is doublespeak for bite-out-chunks-of-truth until only irrelevancy is left, byte-sized, entertaining irrelevancy.

  Larisa Alexandrovna

  Balanced, Bites, Left

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• I'm not very good with drink recipes. If I'm entertaining, I like to come up with a house drink for the evening, one thing I'll make for the whole evening of the whole month.

  Amy Sedaris

  House, Recipes, Months

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Sometimes when my fans come up to me, they think it's going to be entertaining, like I'm going to tell jokes or do bits, and then instead of that I end up talking about really mundane things with my fans, and then they're kind of like, "This is boring. I want to go talk to somebody else." I think I bore my fans to death by over-talking to them.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Thinking, Talking, Fans

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'm not really much of a genre guy. I think that audiences don't need that anymore where you just need a very specific genre. Audiences are very sophisticated, and as long as it's fun, it's okay and entertaining.

  Natalie Portman

  Fun, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Comedy today is not what it was years ago. It's always changing, in particular to female comics. No longer are certain subjects considered to be a male preserve. Women can talk about sexuality and their bodily functions and it can be very, very entertaining. It's changed the impact of comedy acting.

  Patrick Stewart

  Impact, Years, Acting

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• When entertaining, it's great to wow your guests with an outstanding recipe, but it's also very important to design a menu that's not too demanding of yourself, otherwise everybody will have fun but you. A great appetizer or simpler dish is a good way to work a menu that's delicious but does not impose too much effort or time spent in the kitchen.

  Debi Mazar

  Fun, Effort, Design

  "Debi Mazar's Tuscan-Style Thanksgiving". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. November 21, 2013.

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• I've worked ever since I was a kid with a two-bit kit of magic tricks trying to improve my skills at entertaining whatever public I had - and to make myself ready, whenever the breaks came, to entertain a wider and more demanding public.

  Johnny Carson

  Kids, Skills, Two

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• Even the worst comic is at least somewhat entertaining, if only in a pathological way, for five minutes.

  Emo Philips

  Way, Comic, Minutes

  Source: www.sheckymagazine.com

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• It's also a lot easier to convince people to read an entertaining story than any other type of book!

  Andy Andrews

  Book, People, Stories

  "The Noticer Returns Interview". Interview, www.andyandrews.com. October 3, 2013.

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• I respect anyone who's honest to themselves and able to bring that into their work in an entertaining fashion.

  Doc Brown

  Fashion, Able, Honest

  Source: www.comedy.co.uk

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• I just love the subversion of dialogue in sitcoms, stand-up is monologue and that is entertaining for a lot of people but personally I find it a bit trying, which is a weird thing to say as a stand-up! I love people aping normal conversation and twisting it so it becomes hilarious.

  Doc Brown

  People, Trying, Normal

  Source: www.sevenstreets.com

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• Much more than an entertaining set of exaggerated facts, fiction is a metaphoric method of describing, dramatizing and condensing historical events, personal actions, psychological states and the symbolic knowledge encoded within the collective unconscious; things, events and conditions that are otherwise too diffuse and/or complex to be completely digested or appreciated by the prevailing culture.

  Tom Robbins

  Collective Unconscious, Historical, Fiction

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• I like televangelism shows. I find it entertaining sometimes to see how a young person would deliver the word versus a old person.

  Betty Wright

  Sometimes, Young, Shows

  Source: ratedrnb.com

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• What I love about what I do is expanding people's minds on the topics of gender expression, gay rights, and most of all, entertaining them while I do it.

  Jinkx Monsoon

  Gay, Rights, Expression

  Source: fierth.com

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• I think every good, entertaining movie should have a message. I really believe that, because if you do it without it, the film feels a little bit soulless.

  Roland Emmerich

  Believe, Thinking, Should Have

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• When you're playing supernatural characters, there's an infinite number of possibilities with a character. And I also think they're wonderful and entertaining for the whole family. You don't have a high body count.

  Nicolas Cage

  Character, Thinking, Numbers

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• The older I get, the more I realize how much I have missed because I was so busy entertaining that audience and so busy pursuing a career.

  Angela Lansbury

  Careers, Realizing, Busy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is always more in one of Ramanujan's formulae than meets the eye, as anyone who sets to work to verify those which look the easiest will soon discover. In some the interest lies very deep, in others comparatively near the surface; but there is not one which is not curious and entertaining.

  G. H. Hardy

  Lying, Eye, Science

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• As long as you enjoy investing, you'll be willing to do the homework and stay in the game. That's why I try to make the show so entertaining, because if you aren't interested, you'll either miss the opportunity to make money in the market or not pay enough attention and end up losing your shirt.

  Jim Cramer

  Money, Opportunity, Games

  "Mad Money". Book by Jim Cramer, www.today.com. March 14, 2005.

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• I think [game music] is something that should last with the player. It's interesting because it can't just be some random music, but something that can make its way into the player's heart. In that sense, this not only applies to game music, but I feel very strongly about composing songs that will leave a lasting impressionWhat I must not forget is that it must be entertaining to those who are listening. I don't think there's much else to it, to be honest. I don't do anything too audacious, so as long as the listeners like it, or feel that it's a really great song, then I've done my job.

  Yasunori Mitsuda

  Song, Jobs, Heart

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