"Political gerrymandering makes the incentive for most members of Congress to play to the extremes of their base rather than to the center."
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"I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing."
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"You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him."
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"Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play. If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you."
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"The prince must be a lion, but he must also know how to play the fox."
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"Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things - all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play."
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"This guitar is such a pal. It's a psychiatrist. It's a doggone bartender. It's a housewife. This guy is everything. Whenever I find that I've got a problem, I'll go pick my guitar up and play. It's the greatest pal in the whole world."
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"Management plays a role just keeping everything in place for you and making sure everything's going right."
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"I do like to write but I also like to get and out and play. I am losing track of all the Cooper versions that I do - I have one for Iceland, different one over here."
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"Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly."
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"Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top"
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"The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays."
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"If I was white I would have been like John Wayne... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play"
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"Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious."
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"...if you get confused, just listen to the music play."
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"A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone."
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"Once you put in all the work pre-practice and post-practice and see it in a game and see it in play, that's a great feeling."
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"A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn."
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"In exactly the same way, ... scatter your body, your feeling, your perception, your predispositions, your discriminative consciousness, break them up, knock them down, cease to play with them, apply yourself to the destruction of craving for them. Verily, ... the extinction of craving is Nirvana."
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"The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods are there, behind the wall, at play with numbers."
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