"Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself."
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"Some of the guys when they play, they try to keep it reality. Nah, I need the best everything."
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"Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!"
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"There's no question dolphins are smarter than humans as they play more."
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"It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing."
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"Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow."
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"I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint."
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"When you work with people whom you like and you admire because they're so good at what they do, it doesn't feel like work. It's like you're playing."
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"The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs…the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifieds."
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"But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom."
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"There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal."
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"Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory."
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"Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel."
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"You just have to press the right keys and the right pedals at the right time and the music plays itself."
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"A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't."
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"The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously."
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"1) Différance is the systematic play of differences, of the traces of differences, of the spacing by means of which elements are related to each other. This spacing is the simultaneously active and passive (the a of différance indicates this indecision as concerns activity and passivity, that which cannot be governed by or distributed between the terms of this opposition) production of the intervals without which the "full" terms would not signify, would not function."
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"You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, once is enough."
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"When you know that you are eternal you can play your true role in time. When you know you are divine you can become completely human. When you know you are one with God you are free to become absolutely yourself."
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"True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found."
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