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“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.”
— Carl Jung
“God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.”
— Voltaire
“Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.”
— Nelson Mandela
“Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.”
— Franklin Roosevelt
“The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.”
— Sigmund Freud
“I don't care what stage or what reason, as long as we're playing.”
— Billy Idol
“The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.”
— Clare Boothe Luce
“If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through, what am I supposed to do, look intelligent?”
— Marilyn Monroe
“Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.”
— Marilyn Monroe
“The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public. ”
— Phyllis Diller
“God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen. ”
— Stephen Hawking
“Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen. ”
— Stephen Hawking
“It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.”
— Honore de Balzac
“Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.”
— Honore de Balzac
“The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.”
— Honore de Balzac
“Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart”
— Honore de Balzac
“Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The mind cannot long play the heart's role.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.”
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play. ”
— Willie Nelson
“All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up? ”
— Willie Nelson
“There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. ”
— Julius Robert Oppenheimer
“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.”
— William Shakespeare
“Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
— William Shakespeare
“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.”
— William Shakespeare
“Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.”
— Robert Redford
“To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.”
— Quentin Tarantino
“If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.”
— Quentin Tarantino
“The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'. ”
— Eminem
“Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.”
— Sai Baba
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