"When I come back like Jordan, wearing the 4-5. It ain't to play games with you, it's to aim at you, probably maim you. If I owe you I'm blowin' you to smithereens."
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"Grammar is a piano I play by ear."
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"Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials"
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"Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts."
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"The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down."
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"When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible."
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"If you play more than two chords, you're showing off."
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"Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought."
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"Any sensible ruler would have killed off Leonard, and Lord Vetinari was extremely sensible and often wondered why he had not done so. He'd decided that it was because, imprisoned in the priceless, inquiring amber of Leonard's massive mind, underneath that bright investigative genius was a kind of willful innocence that might in lesser men be called stupidity. It was the seat and soul of that force which, down the millennia, had caused mankind to stick its fingers in the electric light socket of the Universe and play with the switch to see what happened - and then be very surprised when it did."
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"Give a man a soccer ball, he plays for a moment. Teach a man to play soccer, he plays for a life time."
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"It's not an 'either/or,' it's an 'and.' You can be serious and play."
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"I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments."
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"I'm gonna tie you up, blind fold you, and we gonna play which hole feel the best."
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"I've realised that when I don't play people who are complex I get very, very bored, and then lazy, and end up being rubbish."
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"Growing up with two sisters, you either play by yourself or play Barbie with them. I played by myself."
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"If you could play, I'd play with you all night. But if I'm just playing by myself, it gets boring pretty quick."
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"I miss playing with Miles. I did play with him a little while before he left the planet, but even at that time I longed to maybe do some things together."
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"You don't really know a song until you play it live."
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"I'm not beholden to the public, and neither are the public beholden to me or my songs. I'm very much of a populist on those terms, I believe that the song is no longer mine anyway. I like to process the dispossession that happens when you play something live. I don't have a clue as to how these songs are going to plan out, whether they're going to be on a record. I don't know yet."
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"We often say that psi is like musical ability: it is widely distributed in the populate, and everyone has some ability and can participate to some extent - in the same way that the most nonmusical person can learn to play a little Mozart on the piano. On the other hand, there is no substitute for innate talent, and there is no substitute for practice."
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