"Hot Potato is a very different game when the people playing are starving."
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"If the weather is too cold or rainy, I take shelter in the Regence Cafe, where I entertain myself by watching chess being played. Paris is the world center, and this cafe is the Paris centre for the finest skill at this game."
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"Winning is beginning. And just by beginning, your game is half won."
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"The Cowboy's defense has more holes in it than Ronny Milsapp and Jose Feliciano after a game of lawn darts."
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"I haven't seen anyone rely on the ground game this much since the battle of Verdun."
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"Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant in their own head. They're thinking."
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"I think my putting could be better, my short game."
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"I actually don't play any new video games except 'Call of Duty.' I'm addicted to 'Call of Duty.' It's the only game I need."
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"ABOYNE (vb.) To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him."
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"No. No games. He wanted her and didn't care who knew it. He definitely and absolutely wanted her, longed for her, wanted to do more things than there were names for with her."
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"You be at the games looking right all season, but you always with me on the night yall leaving."
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"See I'm humble but I live fame, for more deals on the table than a Bridge game."
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"The game got these old handprints on it, but Imma be the one to pour cement on it."
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"I don't want to do panel games or adverts. I really like challenges. I always get roles as an art teacher or a photographer. In the future I want to play something like a mugger/assassin/pastry chef."
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"Win or lose, I've been fortunate to be able to pitch deep enough into games to get decisions."
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"I'm trying not to get ahead of myself. I'm taking it one game at a time."
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"When you have bad teams, you've got to be creative to win games you're not supposed to win."
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"I don't see how being a faster runner, or a better mathematician makes you 'deserve' access to a better life, or more influence on policy, in the absence of a social decision to play that game in the way it's proposed to be organised for some set of benefits."
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"Politics has become a game of meaningless, mindless battles, conducted by unscrupulous methods and people, designed to transform even the most serious policy debates into sport."
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"It usually takes an ethnic girl - I'm not saying black, I'm saying ethnic, let's make that clear - twice as long. We've gotta work extra-hard to stay in the game and stay with the girls who do well but aren't ethnic."
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