"So vast is that Being that there's enough room for every sensation to have its momentary play."
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"I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false."
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"Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously."
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"My God is rock'n'roll. It's an obscure power that can change your life. The most important part of my religion is to play guitar."
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"You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life."
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"Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves."
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"He dreamed of amassing musicians from all over the world in Woodstock and they would sit in a field in a circle and play and play. It didn't matter what key or tempo or what melody, they would keep on playing through their discordance until they found a common language."
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"Everybody knows my life. I won a lot of tournaments and scored more than 1,000 goals, won three World Cups but I could not play in Olympic Games."
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"An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation."
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"The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected."
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"We're not allowed to play Monopoly at home. It gets too vicious."
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"Legal immigrants play by the rules and come in under the law. They work, raise their families, pay taxes, and serve in the Armed Forces. ... Legal immigrants do not seek to cross the border, or overstay their visas. They come here the right way. ... And, by and large, they are here as the result of reunifying families."
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"I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play."
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"Comedy's my first love. I love that so much. You play comedy in drama, too. The difference between genres doesn't really change the method of acting."
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"I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society will think."
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"The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious work. But without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. It is therefore short-sighted to treat fantasy, on account of its risky or unacceptable nature, as a thing of little worth."
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"I want to play characters that are interesting to watch."
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"The game women play is men."
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"I'm a big guy so I have to keep my muscles loose. So I do a lot of stretching before the game. I'll do about 10-15 minutes of yoga just to loosen up my body, get warm and get ready to play."
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"I did Albert Hall, I got to play the Hall of Fame with Prince. So I've done that kind of stuff for ages. It wasn't until after we finished working on Brainwash, my dad's album after he died, then it was like 'That phase is over in my life now, now we can get on with our music, with our band.'"
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