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Denzel Washington Actor, Director
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"I honestly believe, and I've said it many times, that the universal stems from the specific and I can't walk around with a performance and ask everyone how they feel about it, but if noble is an opinion that people have I'll accept that. I've been asked many times why I don't play bad guys, or heavies, and I would do it, absolutely, in a second, just haven't been offered any so... if anybody has a script out there tonight I'm more than willing."

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Bernie Williams Baseball Player
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"My job is to make myself available to play to the best of my ability. Mentally, I've got to stay ready to play every day."

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Bernie Williams Baseball Player
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"When my Yankee career is over I'll play anywhere, but I'm positive that I'll never find a team quite like the Yankees."

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Al Gore Politician
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"I'm not trying to top anything. I'm trying to be useful, to play a positive role, to serve the public interest."

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Cheryl Strayed Author, Memoirist
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"You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding and my dear one, you and I have been granted a mighty generous one."

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Colin Hay Musician
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"I like to let the songs speak so that they can go through some kind of rebirth as you play them."

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Conrad Hyers Theologian
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"We live in an ironic society where even play is turned into work. But the highest existence is not work; the highest level of existence is play."

Play Levels Ironic
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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
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"I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology.... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Of these the most influential is what is called 'education.' Religion plays a part, though a diminishing one; the press, the cinema, and the radio play an increasing part.... It may be hoped that in time anybody will be able to persuade anybody of anything if he can catch the patient young and is provided by the State with money and equipment."

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"I would love to see a sequel to 'The Rocketeer.' I'd love to see that! I don't know that I would be in it. I may be a little long in the tooth to play 'The Rocketeer.' But I would love to be a part of that in some form or fashion."

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Billy Graham Evangelist, Author
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"Look, I happen to agree with what George says about the interpretation of the New Testament, but I want to remind both of you to never play God."

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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
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"Let no one say that I have said nothing new... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with the same ball, but one of us places it better."

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Blake Griffin Basketball Player
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"I guess it's good in a sense that it stops any of it from happening, but now you're telling me if it's Game 7 of the NBA Finals and a guy has a chance to make a play he's going to be like, 'Well, do I want this $10,000 or do I want a championship?'"

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Bob Bruce Television Producer
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"I used to play golf with a guy who cheated so badly that he once had a hole in one and wrote down zero on the scorecard."

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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
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"Once I can focus in on something, I just play it in my mind until an idea comes from out of nowhere, and it's usually the key to the whole song. It's the idea that matters. It's like electricity was around long before Edison harnessed it."

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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
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"I used to play hockey when I was growing up. Everyone sort of learns how to skate and play hockey at an early age."

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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
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"I play these [folk acoustic] concerts and I ask myself, 'Would you come see me tonight?' - and I'd have to answer truthfully, 'No, I wouldn't come. I'd rather be doin' something else, really I would. That something else is rock... The words are pictures, and the rock's gonna help me flesh out the colors of the pictures. (1965)"

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