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"If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role to play there, because government doesn't do R&D about new things naturally as much as it probably should, and so philanthropy's there."
"You have to convince your players that the only reason a play failed was that they didn't execute properly."
"The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever."
"People think that singing and playing is easy. It's not. It's easy to strum along, but if you actually want to really play, where it's important, that's a hard thing and not too many people are good at it."
"People are going to say, ‘Well, it’s not very truthful.’ But a songwriter doesn’t care about what’s truthful. What he cares about is what should’ve happened, what could’ve happened. That’s its own kind of truth. It’s like people who read Shakespeare plays, but they never see a Shakespeare play. I think they just use his name."
"I was never good at hide and seek because I'd always make enough noise so my friends would be sure to find me. I don't have anyone to play those games with any more, but now and then I make enough noise just in case someone is still looking and hasn't found me yet."
"If I go to places where other people are playing, I often get up and play myself. I just enjoy the sound and feel of playing."
"I was shooting in the low 70s and 60s by the time I was twelve. That's the great thing about golf. It doesn't matter how old or young you are; if you're 90 and can shoot a good score, people will want to play with you."
"What I say goes. I'm hitting shots that I want to hit. I'm doing the things that I want to do. I play it my way."
"I never believed in a set routine. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel."
"If you have any requests. keep them to yourselves. we don't play requests!"
"Whatever I've got going on, I play music to accompany me."
"To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play."
"When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point."
"All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts."
"I actually write my own music whenever I have a chance. I play guitar and sing."
"Earth's immune system - its rapid response team of self-protection - becomes invigorated at times of peril. And one sees it at play now in the upwelling of grassroots work aimed at finding a sustainable future."
"Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being."
"The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of white to black is analogous to the eighty-eight keys and you have to be able to play all eighty-eight keys in that palette from white to black."
"Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one."
