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"I used to play a lot of chess and competitive chess and study chess and as you get to the grandmasters and learn their styles when you start copying their games like the way they express themselves through... The way Kasparov or Bobby Fischer expresses themselves through a game of chess is it's astonishing. You can show a chess master one of their games and they'll say "Yeah, that is done by that player.""
"Contemporary American psychiatrist It is a happy talent to know how to play."
"war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male."
"You have to be careful of people who like to talk a big game but can't back it up."
"Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness."
"Bill Clinton, Mr. Bob Dole, You too old to understand tha way tha game is told."
"Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win."
"The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don't really seem to know any more about the game than the old ones did."
"The price for sitting and watching game shows and betting on lottery is that the vast majority of the viewers will never become rich"
"I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game."
"There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears."
"That's the best part of the game, to see the smiles on their faces and the breakthroughs they have as individuals."
"Despite the amount of suffering, pain, misery, sorrow and travail which can exist in life, the reason for existence is the same reason as one has to play a game-interest, contest, activity and possession. The truth of this assertion is established by an observation of the elements of games and then applying these elements to life itself."
"Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons."
"When you develop a game plan to get what you want, you will develop a belief that you can get it."
"The playing field of life is not level, and for you to compete in the game of life, you need an equalizer of some kind. In the old West, the equalizer was the six-shooter. It enabled a little guy to chop a bigger man down to size. Desire is also an equalizer--and nowadays is highly encouraged over a six-shooter!"
"It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong."
"I wrote these words for everyone who struggles in their youth. Who won't accept deception instead of what is truth. It seems we lose the game, before we even start to play. Who made these rules? We're so confused. Easily led astray."
"A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text remains, moreover, forever imperceptible. Its laws and rules are not, however, harbored in the inaccessibility of a secret; it is simply that they can never be booked, in the present, into anything that could rigorously be called a perception."
"I had everything working my way, strong as a bull. And still I ignored the rules of the game of life."
