Henry Miller
Novelist, Essayist
"Chaos is the score upon which reality is written."
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Lloy Ball
Artist
"It's just the easiest way to score a point."
Pele
Professional Footballer
"When you control the ball you control the score"
Tony Robbins
Author, Life Coach
"The minute you start keeping score, you're destroying the relationship."
Jack Kerouac
Novelist, Poet
"Some's bastards, some's ain't. That's the score."
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"Diplomacy without arms is like a concert without a score"
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"Efficiency is anything that scores."
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"Tenors get women by the score."
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"The negative is the score, and the print the performance."
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"If you can't read the scoreboard. You don't know the score. If you don't know the score, you can't tell the winners from the losers."
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"There will be killing till the score is paid."
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"We'll do whatever it takes to score as many points as we can-and definitely one more point than the opponent."
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"I don't go out and just try to score. I score because there is an opportunity to score."
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"Shall I never see a bachelor of three score again?"
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"The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance."
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"Life's too short for anxious score-keeping"
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"It doesn't matter who scores. If you have an opportunity to score, you score."
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"I can't ask the offense to score slower."
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"I’m going to pass a law that no one can ask me my golf score."
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"Somewhere there's a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can."
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"There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject"
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"No matter how old you are, if you're just not an empathetic person, it's a lot easier to concentrate solely on something that is injuring another person to even some score. Hopefully as people grow older, their ability to empathize deepens."
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"A poem is like a score for the human voice."
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"Score one for Team Kendall, Payton thought. Not that it was a competition between them. Not at all."
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"Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score."
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