"Don't be afraid, just play the music."
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"Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born."
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"I always say if I play my best it's difficult to beat me"
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"Give me a mandolin and I'll play you rock 'n' roll."
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"Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him."
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"Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there."
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"I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners."
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"And there's that one particular harbor Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within..."
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"The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave on the face of the ocean. When the wave is gone, is the water gone? Has anything happened? Nothing has happened. It is a play, a game, a dance."
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"Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can."
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"We are not meant to be perpetually solemn: We must play."
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"The game ain't always fair and that's the thing though. You can play your heart out, everyone don't get a ring though."
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"The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest."
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"I think the play offers (white Americans) a different way to look at black Americans For instance, in 'Fences' they see a garbageman, a person they don't really look at, although they see a garbageman every day. By looking at Troy's life, white people find out that the content of this black garbageman's life is affected by the same things- love, honor, beauty, betrayal, duty. Recognizing that these things are as much part of his life as theirs can affect how they think about and deal with black people in their lives."
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"Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude."
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"Every game's a championship game. When we focus that way, get prepared that way-that this is it, you know, this is the last one, the biggest one-you get ready, you get amped up, you get that laser focus and you're ready to play."
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"Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history."
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"I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies - other people can't get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination."
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"Actually, because I'm so small, when I strike an open A chord I get physically thrown to the left, and when I play an open G chord I go right. That's how hard I play, and that's how a lot of my stage act has come about. I just go where the guitar takes me."
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"I don't like to play above or below people's heads. Basically, I just like to get up in front of a crowd and rip it up."
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