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"Anything can happen in stock markets and you ought to conduct your affairs so that if the most extraordinary events happen, that you're still around to play the next day."
"I think it's been, you know, kind of like a tragic play to this point. But at this point, I think it's clear, and will be clear to the majority of the Congress. I think it's clear to the American people that there is only one countervailing force to a world where financial institutions are trying to sell instruments every day and where credit has dried up, and that's the United States Treasury."
"If you're going to be called a musicianship, you have to be able to play."
"There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor."
"It's very different. You do so many things in this play. You can't just focus on acting or singing. You have to be good at both. I'm very glad I did this play."
"Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with it."
"May we two stand, When we are dead, beyond the setting suns, A little from other shades apart, With mingling hair, and play upon one lute."
"How every fool can play upon the word!"
"Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them."
"Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, Ang'ring itself and others."
"QUINCE Francis Flute, the bellows-mender. FLUTE Here, Peter Quince. QUINCE Flute, you must take Thisby on you. FLUTE What is Thisby? a wandering knight? QUINCE It is the lady that Pyramus must love. FLUTE Nay, faith, let me not play a woman; I have a beard coming."
"The southern wind Doth play the trumpet to his purposes; And, by his hollow whistling in the leaves, Foretells a tempest and a blustering day."
"And what’s he then that says I play the villain?"
"Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not, I care not for thee, Kate: this is no world To play with mammets and to tilt with lips: We must have bloody noses and cracked crowns."
"Alas! how little can a moment show Of an eye where feeling plays In ten thousand dewy rays: A face o'er which a thousand shadows go!"
"Every now and then I'll think of something to put back in the show. I just kind of play it off the top of my head. If I do it that way it keeps it kinda fresh."
"Hatred plays the same part in government as acid in chemistry."
"I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble."
"It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging."
"If I can play a scene in a master shot, I always prefer it. And the actors always prefer it. It's fun to look at on the screen, the actors get a chance to sink their teeth into something substantial, and it's economically helpful."
