Games Quotes - Page 36

• A growing nation is the greatest ponzi game ever contrived.

  Paul Samuelson

  Growing, Nations

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• Only in football is long-term injury the result not of accidents but of the game played properly.

  George Will

  Football, Long, Injury

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• The bad player is the one who tries to calculate and play with the odds, as if his game, his life, were one of a large number of games. To do so is at best to succumb to another necessity, the necessity of large numbers. The good player does not fool himself, and accepts that there is exactly one chance, which produces by chance the necessity and even the purpose that he experiences.

  Ian Hacking

  Player, Odds, Numbers

  Ian Hacking (1990). “The Taming of Chance”, p.148, Cambridge University Press

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• Literature is ... a game, but it's a game one can put one's life into.

  Julio Cortazar

  Literature

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• A game played with serious problems. That's what art is.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Art, Serious, Problem

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• There's a thing called game, and when you're out and you're trying to push up on a female and you're going, "Yo, I want to be your knight in shining armor," chances are you're going to get a drink on your face.

  Shemar Moore

  Knights, Shining, Trying

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I am quite competitive. In stupid things like card games.

  Laura Marling

  Stupid, Cards, Stupid Things

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Computers and games don't waste time - people do.

  Bill Gates

  People, Waste, Wasting Time

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• I've had people say to me, "Well, how do I start collecting artworks?" Well, you start by buying. Buy what you like, buy what you can afford - and I'm not just saying that because I'm a dealer. You can't be so paralyzed to where you keep saying, "I've got to learn more." The best way to learn is to go home and actually put something on the wall. Then you've got an investment. Then you're living with it. Then you're in the game.

  Larry Gagosian

  Wall, Home, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I never knew what Amazon was. I've never seen any of those series, even on cable. I've never seen The Sopranos, or Mad Men. I'm out every night and when I come home, I watch the end of the baseball or basketball game, and there's Charlie Rose and I go to sleep.

  Woody Allen

  Basketball, Baseball, Sleep

  "Woody Allen On ‘Irrational Man’, His Movies & Hollywood’s Perilous Path – Cannes Q&A". Interview with Mike Fleming Jr, deadline.com. May 14, 2015.

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• I want you to come watch my game, not the uniforms.

  Brittney Griner

  Watches, Want, Uniforms

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• A game that a lot of critics like is not necessarily a game that enough players like to be able to make back an investment of tens of millions of dollars.

  Steve Gaynor

  Player, Dollars, Able

  "Why This Indie Game Studio Chose a Feminist Drama Over Guns and Zombies". Interview with Matt Connolly, www.motherjones.com. September 20, 2013.

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• I would say Diddy is the most interesting Twitter-er. I definitely will follow the hip-hop circle now that I have infiltrated the game, just so that I can be aware of my rivals and what my competitors are doing.

  Spencer Pratt

  Circles, Interesting, Hip Hop

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Whoever can find the answer to this question: "How can I say this to my dog" has already won the game.

  Max von Stephanitz

  Dog, Answers, Already Won

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• The first game was against Wake Forrest - I'll never forget that game.

  Bo Jackson

  Firsts, Never Forget, Forget

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• ...As every one of us knows, there are some festivals and games in which everything goes right, and every element lifts up, animates, and exalts every other, just as there are theatrical and musical performances which without any clearly discernible cause seem to ascend miraculously to glorious climaxes and intensely felt experiences, whereas others, just as well prepared, remain no more than decent tries.

  Hermann Hesse

  Musical, Trying, Festivals

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• You are a child of God, small games do not work in this world. For those around us to feel peace, it is not example to make ourselves small. We were born to express the glory of God that lives in us. It is not in some of us, it is in all of us. While we allow our light to shine, we unconsciously give permission for others to do the same. When we liberate ourselves from our own fears, simply our presence may liberate others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Light, Giving

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• I have very simple ambitions. If I can just not be boring, I'm ahead of the game. It's hard in television. I think you get enormous reward from the audience. Just give them something they didn't see coming, and you get enormous points.

  David Nevins

  Ambition, Simple, Thinking

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• If children really want to learn something, and have the opportunity to learn it in use, they do so even if the teaching is poor. For example many learn difficult video games with no professional teaching at all!

  Seymour Papert

  Children, Teaching, Opportunity

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• I'm not sure (whether Demetriou did anything wrong). I wouldn't have thought so ... but I'm not the ACC (Australian Crime Commission), I'm not ASADA. I'm a football coach trying to coach a game.

  James Hird

  Football, Trying, Crime

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• Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.

  James Altucher

  Cutting, Get Better, Literature

  "How To Master The Game Of Life" by James Altucher, www.businessinsider.com. October 6, 2014.

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• We just have to go out there and play and take one game at a time. We have to know everybody will play the best game they can.

  Maurice Hall

  Play, Knows

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• I always feel that a viewer has an expectation about every moment of the film and where it's going, so if I act against that, I've created a twist. In fact it becomes a kind of game with the expectations of the viewer. This is the superficial appearance. In the layer beneath there is a hidden theme. The result of each twist is that the judgment of the audience member is challenged.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Expectations, Facts, Twists

  "Interview: Academy Award-winning director Asghar Farhadi on his film ‘The Past’". Interview by Carlos Aguilar, www.indiewire.com. December 17, 2013.

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• Since I began booking some stuff with no formal acting training I told myself, that I needed to really study to stay in the game for the longevity and I did just that.

  Jaime Zevallos

  Training, Acting, Stuff

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Like a lot of other DJs, I've been wondering when the first DJ game was going to happen. Somebody even pitched me on their own idea and I thought, "I'm not a video game startup; I don't know what I'm supposed to do with this."

  DJ Shadow

  Ideas, Video, Firsts

  "DJ Shadow’s Killer App". Interview with Stephen Robert Morse, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2009.

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