"I do not play games. There is not time for it. When I get through with work, I don't want anything that requires the working of the mind."
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"God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]"
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"When you see the political parties squabble, if a baby is not allowed to be born, all the other issues do not come into play."
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"White domination is so complete that even American Indian children want to be cowboys. It's as if Jewish children wanted to play Nazis."
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"Credit worthiness is like virginity, it can be preserved but not restored very easily, so it is crazy to play around with it."
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"I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basalisks; I'll play the orator as well as Nestor, Decieve more slily that Ulysses could, And like a Sinon, take another Troy. I can add colors to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages And set the murderous Machiavel to school. Can I do this, and cannot get a crown? Tut! were it further off, I'll pluck it down."
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"When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it."
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"History is a pack of lies we play on the dead."
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"Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights."
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"In 13 years I've come to the conclusion that I need to play for second or third place."
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"If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls."
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"Fashion is an industry to make money. It plays into human psychology. We want to belong, we want to be loved. I'm not trying to demonize the fashion industry - I love the fashion industry - but style is about taking the control out of the industry's hand and having you decide what works for you."
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"To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's distraction, is within the hands and grasp of the pianist."
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"Guys respect other guys who get it done on the field, play through adversity, and come through when it matters most."
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"When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The sequence of pictures plays directly on our feelings. Music works in the same fashion; I would say that there is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect. And film is mainly rhythm; it is inhalation and exhalation in continuous sequence."
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"I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life."
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"I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions ... more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward."
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"When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. So the director's task is just that – to direct, to point the way. Then the actor takes over. And he must be allowed the space, the freedom to express himself in the role. Without that space, an actor is no more than an unthinking robot with a chest-full of push-buttons."
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"I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement."
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"The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired."
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