"Lay low, play dumb, keep moving."
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"For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part."
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"I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives."
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"Every individual matters and has a role to play in this life on Earth."
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"Those who play a safe game die very safely."
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"It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?"
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"I don't pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself...and I'm too vain to play anything I think is bad."
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"You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra; By alchemy you may learn your livelihood; You may wander through the universe incognito; Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful; You may walk in water and live in fire; But control of the mind is better and more difficult."
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"Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play."
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"Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water” is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism."
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"A helluva athlete, the best ever to play his position in the history of the game."
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"Every day when I get on the floor I give it my all and play because you never know what tomorrow holds."
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"No, Groucho is not my real name. I am breaking it in for a friend. I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it. I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up."
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"Don't play what's there, play what's not there."
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"This is not just about women. We men need to recognize the part we play, too. Real men treat women with the dignity and respect they deserve."
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"There's different girls in my life that play different roles and I see at different times, but collectively they kind of make up the roster of happiness for me."
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"Be a clown , be a clown, All the world loves a clown. Act the fool , play the calf, And you'll always have the last laugh ."
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"We don't want to be free from fear. All that we want to do is to play games with it and talk about freeing ourselves from fear."
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"All great men are play actors of their own ideal."
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"Democracy, finally, rests on a higher power than Parliament. It rests on an informed and cultivated and alert public opinion. The Members of Parliament are only representatives of the citizens. They cannot represent apathy and indifference. They can play the part allotted to them only if they represent intelligence and public spiritness."
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