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• In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Reading, Mind, Facts

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2013). “Religion From the Essays of Arhur Schopenhauer”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• Build an inner place to protect your truth.

  Richard Bach

  Protect

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• My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings

  Jay London

  Funny, Life, Witty

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  Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.

  Barbara Jordan

  Education, Inspirational Life, Holiday

  Barbara Jordan, Shelby Hearon (1979). “Barbara Jordan, a self-portrait”, Doubleday Books

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• There's this total manwhore phenomenon happening, where even the geeks are player now. It's like Manhattan is this giant playground and guys want to keep playing forever.

  Susane Colasanti

  Player, Guy, Forever

  Susane Colasanti (2009). “Take Me There”, p.21, Penguin

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• All I know is when I start getting serious about songwriting... it's like a playground. All responsibilities slip away and you're with your essence. There can be delight there and self-discovery. You can dance there... I think of it as my serious playground.

  Laura Nyro

  Writing, Responsibility, Thinking

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• I think where Playground is heading is deeper into that marriage between stage, film and television, with the increasing number of people in the film business working in television, obviously something that we were very influential in starting and doing at HBO. And I think that that's the focus of where I see the company moving forward, continuing to explore that intersection of all that talent.

  Colin Callender

  Moving, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: deadline.com

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• Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess.

  Melissa Leo

  Actors, Recess, Movie Sets

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground.

  Athol Fugard

  Kids, Boys, Role Models

  "Once upon a life" by Athol Fugard, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2010.

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• I write because in the act of creation there comes that mysterious, abundant sense of being both parent and child; I am giving birth to an Other and simultaneously being reborn as a child in the playground of creation.

  Francine du Plessix Gray

  Children, Writing, Giving

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• I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers.

  Thomas Keneally

  Wisdom, Art, Children

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• Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.

  Robert Cormier

  Family, Mother, Father

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• From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you're in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly.

  Mark Hoppus

  Teacher, Silly, Son

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• The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community itself is crippled.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Family, Attitude, Children

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966".

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• Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players. I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.

  Magic Johnson

  Perseverance, Hard Work, Player

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• In my family, my fat family, none of us ever say the word 'fat.' 'Fat' is the word you hear shouted on the playground or in the street - it's never allowed over the threshold of the house. My mum won't have that filth in her house. At home together, we are safe. ... There will be no harm to our feelings here because we never acknowledge fat exists. We never refer to our size. We are the elephants in the room.

  Caitlin Moran

  Home, Elephants, House

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• In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time...I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well...I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter all over the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit.

  Emma Donoghue

  Jobs, House, Stressed

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• Radio is the playground of coincidence.

  Sarah Vowell

  Radio, Coincidence

  Sarah Vowell (2013). “Radio On: A Listener's Diary”, p.18, St. Martin's Griffin

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• The interesting thing about basketball is that it is played recreationally all over the world in playgrounds where people shoot hoops. Perhaps it is because of this that the look of the game seems to have been able to cross over into streetwear more easily than that of some sports that are confined to more specialist arenas.

  Giorgio Armani

  Basketball, Sports, Games

  Interview with Aaron Howes, www.highsnobiety.com. October 5, 2016.

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• I was on the playground all night. I ain't never go to parties or nothing. I'd get out of school at 3 and be out there playing until one in the morning with one streetlight. For real.

  Moses Malone

  Morning, Real, Party

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you can find on a third grade playground.

  Benjamin Carson

  Intelligent, Names, People

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• I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool, I wasn't diving, I was flying, like Superman. I used to dream of rescuing a girl I had a crush on from a playground bully.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Crush, Girl, Dream

  "Superheroes movies like Avengers Assemble should not be scorned". www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2012.

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• I mean, in 1979 I was seven. I do remember punk, though, as a playground phenomenon, and remember that it was exciting to us. It really was, to a five- or six-year-old, quite a thrilling enticement to revolt. The anarchy sign scratched in desk tops, and so on.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Mean, Years, Six Year Olds

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess’s playground

  Raquel Cepeda

  Travel, Home, Years

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued reams of playground regulations and actually gone so far as to recommend against "tripping hazards, like tree stumps and rocks." Maybe we should just bulldoze the local parks and put in a couple of blobs... made of plastic.

  Lenore Skenazy

  Nature, Couple, Rocks

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