"My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion."
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"Even when it comes to things like wars over oil, which may seem like a whole different ball game, there are still comparisons one can draw: chimps fight for their territory; they fight for the resources within that territory, so it does relate in a way."
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"The cool thing about being a writer is: you get to make stuff up. When I started wring about Vampires, I realized, I can take everything i did like about that mythology and anything I didn't like, I didn't have to; because until a real Vampire stands up and says, 'you've got it wrong,' it's anyone's game."
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"MTV and video games have solved that problem as far as most of humanity goes. That, and telly, as it were.” “Telly?” Who was that? He grunted in amusement. “Television, of course. Don’t you speak English?” “You sure don’t,” I muttered. Shaking his head, he frowned at me."
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"What had started out as a game was now an open challenge, as well as a direct threat. Any further action would bear results, it was clear from the way his gaze smoldered into mine. In that way, it was like an optical erection."
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"There are times when I'm watching an NFL quarterback struggling to get through the game, and I get bitter to some extent."
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"I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game."
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"With pro-gaming that's one of the toughest parts - living game to game."
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"I'm going to be honest, playing in D-League games is tough."
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"The big lock-up is about drugs. Here's the real scam. The drug war is one of the games to get more convictions and prisoners."
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"Look at the whole criminal correction game, which is a big piece of our economy. It's just an invention. Crime is being invented to put people to work."
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"I'm not pro-owner or pro-player. I am pro-football. I want the game to go on. I want the game to be tough. I don't want the game to be a killer of our players."
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"And it's no war games, because they all keep the same place. But like the solar system is going through a change soon and it's going to affect the Earth in about 30 years."
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"Messi. 86 goals in calendar year and still 3 games to play! Best to ever play the game in my opinion just edges Maradona."
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"To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won."
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"We are engaged here in the most important pusuit in history. The search for meaning. What is What is the nature of being a person? What is the best way to go about being a person?How did we come to be, and wha will become of us when we are no longer? In short: What are the rules this game, and how might we best play it?"
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"The only thing I shall talk about is my sporting achievements at school. My primary sporting achievement at school was that I dodged games for two complete years and was well through the third year before they discovered that I had completely avoided all games."
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"As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game."
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"We were really professional by the time we got to the States; we had learned the whole game. When we arrived here we knew how to handle the press; the British press were the toughest in the world and we could handle anything. We were all right."
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"We're playing those mind games together Pushing the barriers, planting seeds Playing the mind guerrilla."
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