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"Jay-Z ain't a manager; he owns a management company. He been through this, he been through the game for a long time so he knows tactics in taking artists in certain directions we need to go in."
"The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can't let yourself be beat because of lack of effort."
"The players today reflect how much the game has evolved and changed both in style and culture. [...] The game now has a wider appeal to a larger market."
"The name of the game is no-limit Texas Hold'em, the game that takes a minute to learn but a lifetime to master."
"Everybody knows my life. I won a lot of tournaments and scored more than 1,000 goals, won three World Cups but I could not play in Olympic Games."
"I enjoyed being a teammate of Deion Sanders. He brings different elements to the game that many people would not even realize, and to watch and witness a superior talent like him and watch him prepare and train, and study the game is truly amazing."
"The game women play is men."
"The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what transforms bureaucrats and foot soldiers and political leaders into viable instruments of rational and affirmative change. The why is everything and without it, the very suggestion of human progress becomes a cosmic joke."
"Everyone on the bench stands for the man coming out of the game."
"I'm a big guy so I have to keep my muscles loose. So I do a lot of stretching before the game. I'll do about 10-15 minutes of yoga just to loosen up my body, get warm and get ready to play."
"I'd like for y'all to meet the love of my life, her name's the game."
"Golf being a cold, calculating sort of game gives perhaps more scope for folly than any other. We have all the time in the world to make up our minds as to what is the wise thing to do and then we do the foolish one."
"The name of the game is continuing to learn. Even if you're very well trained and have some natural aptitude, you still need to keep learning."
"Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money."
"Games are the most elevated form of investigation."
"There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game."
"I talk, watch TV, spout opinions, schmooze, negotiate, talk some more, play games, and have a little cocktail."
"To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time."
"They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays."
"Baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come."
