"The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides."
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"It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play; it is really possible to say the highest things in praise of it. It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground."
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"We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines through British history. Our commitment to fairness, fair play and civic duty."
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"Eisenhower's career demonstrated how it is possible to fool all the people all the time...'I may be stupid,' he once said at a press conference, 'but at least I'm sincere!' Actually, he was neither, but it suited his purpose to play the part of the bumbling man of good will who was 'not an expert in these matters' but somehow would do his best."
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"I first reported to our Marlins spring training complex in Jupiter as well as the other draft picks to receive physicals and to sign contracts. From there I flew to Jamestown, NY to play for the Jamestown Jammers."
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"I had done a lot of plays, particularly at my own theater in LA, and it was the first time in my theatrical life where I didn't feel that my role was also to keep everybody else working hard."
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"But we were doing plays and movies which I had nothing to do with other than being a producer, and I don't have that kind of interest or time any more."
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"Color will play no part in the art of future."
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"I don't know how other bands play the same songs every night."
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"When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as though the strings are still in the cat."
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"It seems self-evident that we should want people to be free, to be able to play an active part in making decisions about matters of concern to them, to the largest possible extent."
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"I grew up in that, when I was a kid. My friends and I used to play cowboys and Indians. We were cowboys killing the Indians, following the Wild West stories. All of this combined into a very strange culture, which is frightened."
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"I'd love to be on 'Glee.' I'd love to play a rebel. Be a real biker chick in leather and covered in tattoos."
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"If you're squeezed for information, / that's when you've got to play it dumb: / You just say you're out there waiting / for the miracle, for the miracle to come."
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"To play a repressed gay man, I had to explore what life was like in an era of sexual repression."
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"The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor."
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"There's so many intangible forces that come into play when making a film, I have no idea what the public will ultimately think of something that I do, let alone critics."
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"I've gotten to play some pretty intense characters and I tend to think it's therapeutic for me."
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"I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play."
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"Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself"
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