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• If you find my aggressive and dominating play dirty, then that's your opinion. But I would assume most people want someone who is going to do anything and everything within the lines to win for their team, because I know I would.

  Ndamukong Suh

  Team, Dirty, Winning

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• You can't play the role of a victim all your life without becoming one in the end.

  Danilo Kis

  Becoming One, Roles, Victim

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• Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.

  James Heckman

  Creating, Gaps, Roles

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• The scriptures offer us so many doctrinal diamonds. And when the light of the Spirit plays upon their several facets, they sparkle with celestial sense and illuminate the path we are to follow.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Light, Scripture, Path

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• I grew up with synthesizers and weird, spacey music-hip-hop, R&B, modern rock-that I heard on the radio. That's influenced the way I play music. It's natural for me to go with what I feel. If I didn't let that other stuff out and stuck to a certain format, I would feel like I was missing out on something. I'm just enjoying my ride and being who I am.

  Gary Clark, Jr.

  Rocks, Who I Am, Hip Hop

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• We dont need more of the same, typical politicians fighting for themselves and for special interests. We need someone to believe in our small-business owners again and someone to champion those folks who play by the rules.

  Tim Walz

  Believe, Fighting, Champion

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• As a person, to inspire some young girls and give them something to look at and give them something to play for, I think is such a great position to be in. Im glad that I can follow all of the great Korean players footsteps.

  Inbee Park

  Girl, Thinking, Player

  "Final interviews from the U.S. Women's Open". Interview with Christina Lance, www.lpga.com. June 30, 2013.

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• The propensity to play is situated in very ancient regions of the brain. Rats that have had their neocortex removed still engage in normal play.

  Jaak Panksepp

  Brain, Rats, Normal

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• BuzzFeed started as a lab with a small team where we would play with ideas.

  Jonah Peretti

  Team, Ideas, Labs

  "INSIDE BUZZFEED: The Story Of How Jonah Peretti Built The Web's Most Beloved New Media Brand". Interview with Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. December 11, 2012.

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• Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Pain, Keys, Cities

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (1994). “Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

  Janet Montgomery

  Hate, Character, Actors

  "HitFix Interview: Janet Montgomery talks ‘Human Target,’ ‘Black Swan’ and more". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. November 16, 2010.

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• The drum is the heart of music. The saxophone can play and then rest, as can all of them except the drums; the drummer keeps going - he can't afford to stop.

  Jo Jones

  Heart, Saxophone, Drummer

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• Music is not everything in life. If a young musician looks at it that way, then he can just play his instrument like putting a nail into a wall.

  Joe Zawinul

  Wall, Way, Musician

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• Play as well as you can all the time, and if you're truthful to your thing, you'll succeed.

  Lester Bowie

  Succeed, Truthful, Wells

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• I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Men, Acting, Actors

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1872). “The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray”, p.155

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• Humour plays close to the big, hot fire, which is the truth, and the reader feels the heat.

  E. B. White

  Fire, Hot, Heat

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• People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Reading, People, England

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2008). “The Corsican”, p.469, Wildside Press LLC

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• Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger.

  Horace

  Fierce, Strife

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• In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.

  Horace

  Boys, Mirth, Nonsense

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• While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Fun, Feels, Ought

  Franklin P. Adams (1944). “Nods and Becks”

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• There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.

  George Eliot

  Music, Grief, Men

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1224, Wordsworth Editions

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• To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.

  George Eliot

  Women, Thinking, Winning

  George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.529, Broadview Press

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• To blow is not to play on the flute; you must move the fingers.
  [Ger., Blasen ist nicht floten, ihr musst die Finger bewegen.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Music, Moving, Blow

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• Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Men, May

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• Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work; a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will; a license, a holiday, a carnival of thought and feeling, not a trifling with speech, a constraint upon language, a duress upon words.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Holiday, Effort, Feelings

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.206

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