We’ve collected the best Play Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Muggsy Bogues, Wayne Shorter, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Arthur Miller, Josh Dun. Use them as an inspiration.
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Play every game as if it is your last one.
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Many people don’t understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz… And that is really the idea of democracy – freedom within the Constitution or discipline. You don’t just get out there and do anything you want.
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Let me tell you something about full moons: kids don’t care about full moons. They’ll play in a full moon, no worries at all. They only get scared of magic or werewolves from stupid adults and their stupid adult stories.
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I work hard. But I play hard, too.
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I’m at my best when people are depending on me. If it’s just on me and I don’t have nothing to do, I’m going to be lazy. On the football field, it’s every single day, every play, knowing that people are depending on me to make my play. That helps me elevate my game to another level.
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If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
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We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
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In 1980 I sent a play, ‘Jitney,’ to the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, won a Jerome Fellowship, and found myself sitting in a room with sixteen playwrights. I remember looking around and thinking that since I was sitting there, I must be a playwright, too.
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The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was in it along with Nathan Lane and a couple of other very good actors.
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I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems. I believe mankind has looked at climate change in the same way, as if it were a fiction.
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When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they’re not gonna see nothin‘ but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears.
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As you get older, and this is a young man‘s game, and people say, ‘Well, there’s no way I can keep up running the way I’m running; there’s no way my arm is going to stay as strong as it is.’ It’s the challenge of trying to stay in my tip-top shape year in and year out so I can keep playing the way I want to play.
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If you play cricket for India, money is bound to come, and with IPL in and match money of the Ranjhi trophy, I think money is there. There’s no good reason why you should not work hard, because at the end of the day, you want to play for your country.
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I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I’d have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream.
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We seek the right to play our part in advancing the cause of national defense and national unity. But certainly, there can be no true national unity where one-tenth of the population is denied their basic rights as American citizens.
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Alongside energy efficiency, renewables and abatement, I believe safe nuclear power, with manageable waste, can play an important role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, as long as it is cost competitive with other low carbon generation.
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Straight up. You can’t mess with Jay when it’s time to come play.
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Everyone, Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or too young to do something.
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I always loved playing basketball. That was never a problem for me. You want to go to the park or the gym, I’ll play with you all day, but working out, I didn’t love. I hated it.
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Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.
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The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
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A lot of black guys always ask me, ‘Did Larry Bird really play that good?’ I said, ‘Larry Bird is so good it’s frightening.’
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I simply do not distinguish between work and play.
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Children need to move to develop their brain; it’s a natural urge. That’s why boys will run after a ball and play soccer despite how many video games are available to them, and they can’t help themselves from building with Lego bricks as well. They want to be creating something that’s uniquely their own.
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Love is a game that two can play and both win.
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I feel that business leaders with their ability to create businesses, with their ability to scale, need to play an important role in social service.
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Honestly, being a 5’11” quarterback, not too many people think that you can play in the National Football League. And so for me, you know, I knew that my height doesn’t define my skill set, you know? I believed in my talent. I believed in what God gave me. I believed in the knowledge that I have of the game.
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My mom wanted me to play baseball. She didn’t want me to play basketball.
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What I think I’ve been able to do well over the years is play with pain, play with problems, play in all sorts of conditions.
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Play is the work of childhood.
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The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.
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Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.
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Sometimes it’s a character you want to play or a story you want to tell. Sometimes it’s just to pay the bills.
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The football field was a place where I could express myself and just be me. Play the game as well as you can and that’s what you’re judged on. Not the colour of your skin, or your beliefs, or the conversation you have around racism.
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I like to play with my back to the goal, but my colleagues have to tell me when I’m alone or how much room I have so I can choose to pass or to go straight for the goal.
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I’ve always had a ‘Work hard, play hard’ attitude to life – I still do – but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.
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If you’re going to have a bad attitude, you may as well not even tee it up that week because you probably won’t play good anyways.
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Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.
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You play to win the game.
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In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.
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Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn’t thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I’m just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn’t paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.
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Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.
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Pressure is the single mom who is trying to scuffle and pay her rent. We get paid a lot of money to play a game. Don’t get me wrong: there are challenges. But to call it pressure is almost an insult to regular people.
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If your dream is to tell stories, interesting stories, play interesting people, that’s the bottom line. The people that I play have to be extraordinary.
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You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty’s sake and pulls it down to earth.
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Can’t no man play like me.
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I had a jazz trio, a rock n’ roll band, and I played drums in junior high, high school, college, big bands, and I played timpani in the symphony. I am a drummer. It’s the one instrument I actually play pretty well. It’s just hard to carry on your back.
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My wife Martha used to call me Ol’ Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucille. I squeeze my eyes and open my mouth, raise my eyebrows, cock my head and God knows what else. I look like I’m in torture, when in truth, I’m in ecstasy. I don’t do it for show. Every fiber of my being is tingling.
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My care is that we play with great effort and togetherness. That is what we’re looking for. That’s what we want to be.
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Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.
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The target for every great champion is to play for the team.
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I’ve tried to incorporate new ways of playing the game. That’s why you hear people call me a ‘hybrid goalie’ and say I adjust to the situation, never doing the same thing over and over like a butterfly goalie. I try to see what works and hopefully with my talent I’m able to play it and make it happen.
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When I started to play tennis my mum told me to enjoy.
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I’m of the opinion that as a DJ you must always play what you love and ignore what’s ‘trendy‘ because true passion always eclipses what’s fashionable. Quality is always fashionable.
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When I first started out in this music industry, I was most concerned with freedom. Freedom to produce, freedom to play all the instruments on my records, freedom to say anything I wanted to.
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Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isn’t ruined if I lose. I’m always up for a rematch. In all seriousness, that’s something that’s nice about maturing.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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It’s not how you play the game, it’s how you place the blame.
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I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time.
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I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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Usually, I’m a very positive guy. I try to think about the next chance, the next game, the next opportunity to play well.
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In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it’s online, all those early buyers who… you want to play with, they’ve got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games.
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I am not a politician. I’m an American businessman and entrepreneur that have built two businesses, and I try to play it straight with people.
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I’m doing a film called ‘Black Mass‘ where I play James Bulger. The reason to play him is obvious to me. He’s a fascinating character. It’s not like anything I’ve done before on that level. I’m very excited to slide into that skin for a little bit.
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I like to play cards. I’m not very good, because I don’t want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I’ve learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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When you play cricket for India, you are always under the scanner. You are always judged by others; you have to live up to it all.
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I am born to play badminton and can’t think of anything else.
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Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer play football, they no longer do anything; they no longer exist, or rather they have the sensation of no longer existing.
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You’ve just got to go out there and make the right play.
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If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you’ll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you’ll get to where you want to be.
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As a busker, one thing that does not work is self-consciousness. A busker needs to be working. A busker needs to shed all ego and get down to work. Play your songs, play them well, earn your money, and don’t get in people’s way.
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To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.
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I played with a lot of great players before. They’re all the same. They take a lot of responsibility for their own play, put a lot of pressure on themselves to perform and to play well.
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I was going from Furman to the University of Georgia. I transferred to play football.
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If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.
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I always play barefoot. I can’t play with shoes on.
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I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that.
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Golf… is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
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I had no interest in sports so I didn’t make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
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Play is the work of childhood.
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A healthy society rests on three pillars: business, government and civil society, or non-profits. Each has a distinct and important role to play, and all three need to work together synergistically to create the most value for society.
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I can’t draw a stick person. I can’t play a musical instrument. But I’ve always had a knack for making money.
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It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for ‘Monsoon Wedding,’ and most of my film, are women. We get the work done, you know, much lesser play of ego… And I really believe in harmony, I believe in working in a spirit of egolessness and that the film is bigger than all of us.
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I play to be the best.
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When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
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Play so that you may be serious.
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The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.
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I think the more cricket you play, the more you will learn about yourself and learn about life in general.
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I love the physical thing of being on the earth that bore you. I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.
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I just play blues for fun.
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What we play is life.
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The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.
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Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
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You want to stop playing ‘Fortnite,’ man, because you aren’t having fun anymore? Good. Go watch someone else. Go play another game.
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If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn’t have given us arms.
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The word thank you ain’t enough. You’ve got to show it, so just go out there and play at a higher level, and instead of saying thank you, show it.
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I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.
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I just tried to play the game the right way. As you get older, Father Time is undefeated.
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There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.
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I’m just going to play whatever game is in front of me.
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Don’t play for safety – it’s the most dangerous thing in the world.
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I had two passions growing up – one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two – and there was Spotify.
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I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.
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If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.
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I’ve seen up close what can happen when actors talk publicly about their relationships: their personal life gets dismantled. It’s a show business game, and it’s one game I won’t play.
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To find a man’s true character, play golf with him.
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I love watching Anthony Kim play, but I’m not a fan of the way he grips down a good two inches on his full-swing shots. Choking down lightens the club’s swing weight and effectively makes the shaft stiffer. It also makes it difficult to hit the ball high enough for all situations.
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Sometimes, the hardest things are just the simple things. Basically, get out of your own head and just go play the game you know how to play.
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To this day, I don’t like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you’re going to play special.
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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.
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When I travel too much, it affects the music, and that is the most important thing. As long as I make good music, I can play shows, but if the music starts getting bad, the show offers won’t come.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I’m portraying in the film or play.
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I’m not a musician, but I play music. So it’s a strange thing.
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I wasn’t really a work-conscious type of person. I was a player. I loved to play sports.
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I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.
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When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, ’cause that was the best game. And these guys, they’d let me play. And they were black guys.
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If a horse won’t eat it, I don’t want to play on it.
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I still like to play games that have a beginning, an end and a story.
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You don’t play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
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I like to play small clubs.
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One of my favourite actors of all time, although he doesn’t necessarily play villains, is Peter Lorre.
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I didn’t get to play many video games when I was growing up.
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I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to go play instruments. So I raised my hand, left out of class, me and a bunch of my homeboys, just to get out of class for that day. They asked what instrument you wanted to play and I picked the violin.
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My priorities are going to be to play a very balanced role in the sense that I have to keep an eye on the challenges in the environment. At the same time, I have to keep an eye on the optimism that is there for India.
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If you can’t play the good guy, sometimes you’ve got to play the villain.
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.
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We don’t make the rules. We just play by them.
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Every musician, their goal in life is to play music that people love, and I’ve accomplished my goal. I was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and left that chapter of my life and those people in the past. Good and bad, I’ve loved and am thankful for that chapter.
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I am jealous of people who can play instruments.
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I don’t fear anyone. We don’t come to play in this sport.
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I play a little guitar, write a few tunes, make a few movies, but none of that’s really me. The real me is something else.
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What I do remember about first grade and that year was that it was very lonely. I didn’t have any friends, and I wasn’t allowed to go to the cafeteria or play on the playground. What bothered me most was the loneliness in school every day.
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When playing big festivals, I tend to play big, over the top techno tracks, like hands in the air songs that make sense being played in front of 30,000 people. I steer away from subtlety in the interests of big bombastic dance music.
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Every game, you’ve got to play with no fear.
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Acting is playing pretend, playing a children’s game at an adult level, but with children’s rules. It’s fun to play bad guys. I’ve never been in a fight in my life, so it’s fun to play something that’s different.
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The first thing you get from the humanities, when they’re well taught, is critical thinking. Philosophy in particular can play that role, not just in universities but in schools as well.
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I feel like I play better when I’m calm. There is an inner peace I can tap into sometimes during my matches.
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I go for my shots with no regrets, even if I play to the fence.
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It’s not easy not to play.
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Remember to play after every storm.
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What I like about The Sims is that I don’t have a normal life at all, so I play this game where these people have these really boring, mundane lives. It’s fun.
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Ben Schwartzwalder was a decent guy, but he was from another era. He was like a Marine, with a real army attitude. He thought there was only one way to play football, and that was the rough way.
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I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.
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If I play a villain, I try to find his lightness and his good side. And if I play a hero or a good guy, I’ll try to find his darkness or his flaws. Because I don’t believe in good and evil. I believe in grays.
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The cello is such a versatile instrument. It can rock like the hardest rock guitar, and it can sing like the human voice. We couldn’t do what we do without the classical training. It’s a hard instrument to play. There are no frets, and it takes finesse and technique to play.
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It’s nice to play a three-dimensional person every once in a while for a change of pace.
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I’m pretty much an isolated person. I’d rather stay home and play video games.
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The only instrument I play myself is the ukulele.
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I don’t follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, ‘Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.’ I just like being myself.
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I don’t want Kylian to play like Neymar and keep the ball. Kylian is incredibly dangerous in the final move, and I want him to stay that way.
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I think everybody’s got different methods of working which suit the particular individual. Mine is to sort of play the part, and give 100%, to concentrate and focus on it while I’m actually working, but then leave it behind until the next day.
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I’m not going to be rockin’ n’ rollin’ when I’m 50 years old. But you can be in your prime on television, compose songs, or write a Broadway play when you’re 50.
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Any time I try to play anything that doesn’t come natural, I’m just plain bad.
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For a DJ at my level, you can really go through life and travel the world without seeing a single thing. It’s harder to go out and see the sights than it is to play a show.
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I wrote my own play, ‘The Westie Monologues,’ about where I’m from in Australia, and it was very successful. From that, I started getting offers from television.
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I’ve seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it’s a script or a play or whatever, and it is a great project and they have great people involved, and they can’t make it.
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One of my favorite things to do is to play music really loud and dance my butt off in the morning. I’ll do it alone in my apartment. You can’t have a bad day after that.
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‘Let the music play on’ would be my legacy.
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To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.
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I didn’t realize that, in doing a documentary, there is this process of discovery. It’s not like a film or a play with a set script. It sort of reveals itself.
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I don’t like playing to guitar players, actually. I’d rather just play to ordinary people.
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If music be the food of love, play on.
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I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.
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Every time I play darts I try to keep my poker face on and stay focused until that last dart has gone in.
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We’re all just playing our own game. I don’t see it as a rivalry. We’re just trying to play our best.
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A soulmate is someone whom, when you meet, without thinking – without letting your neocortex play into the decision – you feel an instant familiarity, a sense of connection, a longing.
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When you play a sax, that saxophone is irreverent. It’s noisy; it’s a trickster… you cannot hide the saxophone in your hands, so it’s a good teacher.
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I only started playing piano because I had chickenpox when I was about 14 and wasn’t allowed to play my drums for a whole week… We had a piano in the house, so I just sat down and played that instead.
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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.
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My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.
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A woman has so many facets, and when you create an image, you have to play with all the different moments of your femininity, not just one thing, because everybody can get bored.
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I do not play football to win the Ballon d’Or. I play football to be happy, because I love it and want to play football.
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Even when I’m old and grey, I won’t be able to play it, but I’ll still love the game.
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I think I’ll always live in Fort Worth. It’s great that I can now go anywhere I want to play music, but I love coming back here. I can roll down the streets and just reminisce.
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Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.
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The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose.
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Liquid architecture. It’s like jazz – you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it’s a way of – for me, it’s a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.
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I don’t play to sweat, I play to win.
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Once you get on the playing field it’s not about whether you’re liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That’s what it’s about.
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Joy comes from places you least expect it. It’s usually the simple things, like watching my son play basketball or going through Central Park when the blossoms are blooming.
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With foxes we must play the fox.
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We are faced with the dilemma of how or if we demonstrate where we stand on critical issues and corresponding social ills. We are also bombarded with so many instances of inhumanity that it can be difficult to determine what part we play in human progress.
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Doing Shakespeare once is not fair to the play. I have been in Shakespeare plays when it’s not until the last two or three performances when I even understand certain things. In the old days star actors would travel the world doing the same parts over and over again.
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My mother and father didn’t know anything about instruments. Me just see a man in the country play guitar one time and say, ‘My, the man play that guitar nice.’
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Yarn, patterns, and needle sizes have come such a long way since your grandmother‘s afghans. Creatively, there is just so much to get into, so much to play with. It’s an amazing way to turn inward and get off your phone.
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When I am an old man, I will tell my grandchildren bedtime stories about when I won the Champions League, hopefully when I won the World Cup, but most of all, I will tell them that their grandfather used to play with Lionel Messi.
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Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.
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Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
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I train all week just to play for 90 minutes. I love playing games, and so during those 90 minutes, it’s always 100 per cent.
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Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, nor care beyond today.
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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.
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Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.
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Online payment will continue to play an ever-growing and significant role in the development of e-commerce as well as the stimulation of consumer demand.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.
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Basically, I only play one character; I just play him at different volumes.
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The problem is that when Argentina doesn’t play well – and the same is true of Barcelona – the press think it is easy to blame Messi. We have seen time and time again that he wins games on his own when the team is not performing – but the media expect him to always be the hero.
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My father left his piano at the house when he left, and I wasn’t allowed to play it when he was there because I wasn’t as good as him. So when he left, I was determined to get as good as him, and I taught myself how to play music, and I just stuck with it, and I did it all the time.
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I can’t play horror games anymore, let alone in VR.
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The human voice: It’s the instrument we all play. It’s the most powerful sound in the world, probably. It’s the only one that can start a war or say ‘I love you.’ And yet many people have the experience that when they speak, people don’t listen to them.
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When you play for one run, that’s usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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You will learn more from your failures than your successes – so embrace those mistakes, as difficult as that sounds, and grow from them. When a project is successful, you’re never really sure why, because so many elements come into play. However, when you fail, you always know why. That is how you learn and grow.
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In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
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I’d walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.
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Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.
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The reason why I have lost weight is that I looked at the international schedule and thought that I wanted to play for another two years. It is a very hectic schedule and if I want to get through that then I have to be in the best shape that I can.
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it’s the right thing to do out there.
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When you play in a great club like Real Madrid, it’s hard to stay here.
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The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.
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I play football because it the best thing on earth for me.
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Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.
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Whenever I have free time, I usually just sleep, play games, watch movies, see my friends, have a drink. Basically, I do whatever other people do in everyday life.
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At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.
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It’s a beautiful day for a ballgame… Let’s play two!
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Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar.
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A common misperception of me is… that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I’m pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It’s the parts that you play I guess. I don’t mind it. I’m not a tough guy. I’d like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point.
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Sometimes the biggest problem is in your head. You’ve got to believe you can play a shot instead of wondering where your next bad shot is coming from.
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I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.
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If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.
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I’ll be the judge of when I can’t play anymore.
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Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he’s got to play from the ground up – from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else‘s play.
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We in the Negro leagues felt like we were contributing something to baseball, too, when we were playing. We played with a round ball, and we played with a round bat. And we wore baseball uniforms, and we thought that we were making a contribution to baseball. We loved the game, and we liked to play it.
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I didn’t really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.
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I’m blessed. I get to play the game I love for a living and make a lot of money doing it.
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Work while you work, play while you play – this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
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Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.
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I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual… and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.
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I hate the natural sound of the trumpet, but I think I’m naturally set up to be a trumpet player. I know that sounds weird. But pretty much anytime I play a note, I’m uncomfortable in a general sense.
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Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.
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Your best ability is availability and if you’re not on the field, they can’t use you and you don’t play. So, I try to play as much football as I can.
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My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I’ve always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.
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Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.
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Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don’t want to admit it. If I won the Race to Dubai, I look at that prize money and think it could pay off my new house or the range I’m building. I am privileged to play golf for a living – look around St Andrews, that’s my office.
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Play is the answer to the question, ‘How does anything new come about?’
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It’s better to play football with a smile on your face.
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Men want a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is what is written in their hearts. That is what little boys play at. That is what men’s movies are about. You just see it. It is undeniable.
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I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working out there. A lot of Mexicans – the blacks and the whites and the Mexicans, all out there singing, and it was like an opera in the cotton fields, and I can still hear it in the music that I write and play today.
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When you play against people that’s better than you, you get better.
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If you can’t play the good guy, sometimes you’ve got to play the villain.
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There are so many positives and great memories I will take with me from Wimbledon 2018. It was always part of the dream to play in a Wimbledon final. It means so much for me to have played in the championship match.
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You can’t win if you don’t play as a unit.
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.
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If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.
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First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I’m other things… But I didn’t play drums to make money.
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When I play bad, I don’t get too down on myself. When I play good, I don’t get too hot.
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I can play guitar – but I can’t really. I wouldn’t say I’m talented at it. I just kind of watch videos on YouTube, and I follow the instructions… OK, yeah, my hidden talent: I’m good at following instructions!
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I think at this point in my life, I’d like to play more good guys than bad guys.
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Only a genius can play a fool.
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I didn’t come up as a DJ, so I don’t play by DJ rules.
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A fashion show is like a 10-minute play, but there’s all this anticipation; Everyone arriving, finding their seats, then there’s 10 minutes of people walking past and clothes and music, then the whole thing is finished.
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Falling in love is a narcissistic endeavor. You play the role of lover, and you find someone to act it out on.
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Golf was my first glimpse of comedy. I was a caddy when I was a kid. I was on the golf course rather than being in lessons, but I can play better now than I could then.
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I’d much rather play the psycho than the pretty girl in hot pants.
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I’ll play it first and tell you what it is later.
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I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.
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I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes, hanging out in the band room all day, and going from one instrument to the next to the next, until I learned how to play everything by ear.
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I only ever play Vegas one night at a time. It’s a hideous, gaudy place; it may not be the end of the world per se, but you can certainly see it from there.
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If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.
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I took piano lessons and I wanted to play drums when I was six. Luckily enough, my parents let me have a drum kit in my room – which is kind of crazy.
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It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
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I don’t play no one else’s game and I don’t run no one else’s race because if I did that, I wouldn’t be who I am.
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The thing I’ve always liked about the playoffs is the finality of it and knowing there’s so much importance on every play.
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I don’t plan or schedule my career thinking first I will play a common man, then a police officer, then a superhero. I love good scripts, and I don’t care if I play the main part in it or not. I want to be a part of good films. That’s my dream… ‘Jacobinte Swargarajyam’ was that film for me.
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I do not try to play a role. I feel good being myself and saying what I think.
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I’m on the playstation, or else I go out and play football. I enjoy movies and sitcoms. I love reading motivational books too.
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Good guy’ or ‘bad guy’, hero or anti hero; doesn’t matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.
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When it comes to women, there has been a tendency to define women in sports in the context of their relationships – they watch games because their husbands watch. They’re interested because their kids play a sport. They buy tickets to a sporting event because it’s a way to spend time with family.
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Give a critic an inch, he’ll write a play.
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A person who is truly authentic doesn’t need to play a role in life, we think, but can simply be him – or herself.
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You have so many games to play, and you can do well in one game but bad in the other ones. The thing you’ve got to be is consistent.
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I liked ‘Scream of the Banshee’ because it was a real challenge. I thought, ‘How am I going to pull off this character?’ But, I also thought, ‘Oh, man, I’m going to go for it.’ He’s got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.
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I want to consistently play well and win titles. I’m only at the beginning.
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I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.
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I love Los Angeles, and it’s been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who’s living them? You don’t play characters that are celebrities – you play guys who know what to do when their septic tank’s blocked.
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All musicians practice ear training constantly, whether or not they are cognizant of it. If, when listening to a piece of music, a musician is envisioning how to play it or is trying to play along, that musician is using his or her ‘ear’ – the understanding and recognition of musical elements – for guidance.
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You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what’s wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever’s in them rises to the surface in free play.
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For a while I feel like I can play against anyone in the world.
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The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it.
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As a DJ, I’m really focused on the crowd. I never play the same set. I always look at the crowd, try to read what they want, and always look at the signs, point at people.
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My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I’ve always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.
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I want to play for years.
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And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
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How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion.
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The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.
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The football field was a place where I could express myself and just be me. Play the game as well as you can and that’s what you’re judged on. Not the colour of your skin, or your beliefs, or the conversation you have around racism.
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Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.
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Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone.
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By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.
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The reason women don’t play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.
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Life must be lived as play.
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To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That’s what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games – nothing like saving the world.
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All I do is sit at home and play guitar. That’s seriously what I do.
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You can play a shoestring if you’re sincere.
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The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation’s in trouble.
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Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you’re good at something, you’re going to work at that thing. In other ways, you constantly have to change people’s opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes.
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I remember acting in a school play about the melting pot when I was very little. There was a great big pot onstage. On the other side of the pot was a little girl who had dark hair, and she and I were representing the Italians. And I thought: Is that what an Italian looked like?
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I’m not a DJ. I play live and think we put on a show. That’s it.
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I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.
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Good or bad day, or good play or bad play, or whatever it is. You have a chance to get back up and begin again, It’s something that’s really stuck with me.
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Most of us weren’t born with a silver spoon in our mouth, but if life dealt you all the wrong cards, you still have to play.
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DJing is my only peace of mind. When the phone is off, I play my favourite songs really loud for myself, and I’m not talking to anyone; I’m not managing anything. It’s just, like, a time when I can listen to music.
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Our swords shall play the orators for us.
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The math works. Over the course of a season, there’s some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There’s so much data that you can predict: individual players’ performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.
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I’m a player, or I’m a person who needs to practice a lot; otherwise, I don’t play well.
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I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn’t lived long enough to experience. That’s why I also believe in reincarnation, that we were put here with ideas to pass around.
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Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren’t allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training.
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I’d never read ‘Lord of the Rings’ until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn’t really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
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In limits, there is freedom. Creativity thrives within structure. Creating safe havens where our children are allowed to dream, play, make a mess and, yes, clean it up, we teach them respect for themselves and others.
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I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn’t study in high school. I was just there to get by and to play basketball. But a funny thing happened to me when I got to college. I got challenged by the work and the professors.
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When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of ‘being there,’ any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play.
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You play it the way you always play it. You look for matchups, and you go through your progression, and you throw it to the guy who’s most open.
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The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.
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I play the best and have the most fun when the stage is brightest.
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I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.
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A dish should have flavor, texture, appearance and smell, but I’m doing it differently. We take Chinese food, play with your sentiments, memories of it, and then take you to the border; you won’t fall over the edge, but you get excitement.
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If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it’s like the human voice.
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If you made me the national commissioner of football, I’d tell you one thing that I would mandate. The second Saturday in September, we’re going to have conference day. Everybody from the SEC plays a Big 12 team. Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.
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If I play a villain, I try to find his lightness and his good side. And if I play a hero or a good guy, I’ll try to find his darkness or his flaws. Because I don’t believe in good and evil. I believe in grays.
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The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.
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You have to have a lot of little boy in you to play baseball for a living.
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I wake up and play a different person every day. Playing all these different characters and trying to figure out who your true authentic self is at the core of that as you’re playing all these different roles, and man, that self-awareness starts to come into effect. And you start to see who you really are.
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Every coach has his own style of play, but when you spend your whole life as a Cowboy, you have to be influenced by what we did.
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I’m just going to go play football – fly around and make some plays. That’s all that matters.
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After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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I’m a technician. I don’t go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.
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Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
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Here’s how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it’s music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.
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I was 18, at art school, and saw this cute boy playing banjo. I was obsessed. I taught myself how to play. I listened to a lot of country and just messed around. The second song I wrote on the banjo was ‘Good to Be a Man.’ That what’s got me signed.
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I certainly miss playing piano, and I really wish I did it more – it’s really a very therapeutic thing to do for me. I just need to be home for more than a few minutes to be able to play more, I guess.
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I’d love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I’m 58 now. So I have to play her father.
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As long as there are games to play it is not over.
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When I was 20, I didn’t give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.
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I was always too mature for my age – and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
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I believe that filmmaking – as, probably, is everything – is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and whatever else you’ve got. So, each time I make a movie, I give it everything I have. I think everyone should, and I think everyone should do everything they do that way.
