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Keith Richards

Musician, Singer, Songwriter

The electric guitar meant that you could have a band with a drummer and a couple of guitars. And that put a lot of horn players out of work.

Electricity - Playing

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Jimi Hendrix

Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter

When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.

Blessing - Playing - Trial - Wonder

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Winston Churchill

Former Prime Minister of the U.K.

It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

Game - Playing - Wellness

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Michael Jordan

Basketball Player

Other than my parents, no one had a bigger influence on my life than Coach Smith. He was more than a coach вЂ“ he was my mentor, my teacher, my second father. Coach was always there for me whenever I needed him and I loved him for it. In teaching me the game of basketball, he taught me about life. My heart goes out to Linnea and their kids. We've lost a great man who had an incredible impact on his players, his staff and the entire UNC family.

Game - Loss - Man - Parents - Playing - Teaching

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Albert Einstein

Theoretical Physicist

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

Essence - Inspiration - Playing - Productivity - Student

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William Shakespeare

Poet, Playwright, Actor

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.

Actor - Man - Playing

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Quentin Tarantino

Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Producer

I don't have to play the song all the way to the very end - I use it while it's good and while it's cool and while it's exciting, and then I get out.

End - Excitement - Playing - Songs

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Stephen Colbert

Comedian, Writer, Producer, Actor, TV Host

We are thrilled that Jon Batiste is joining 'The Late Show' family of products. For my money, nobody plays like Jon Batiste. And you can trust me, because it is my money.

Playing - Product - Thrill

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Jim Henson

Puppeteer, Animator, Filmmaker

Certainly I've lived my whole life through my imagination. But the world of imagination is there for all of us--a sense of play, of pretending, of wonder. It's there with us as we live.

Playing - Pretense - Whole

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Henri Matisse

Artist

The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays a part.

Emptiness - Objectification - Playing - Whole

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J. K. Rowling

Novelist, Screenwriter, Producer

Lee Jordan was finding it difficult not to take sides. 'So — after that obvious and disgusting bit of cheating —' 'Jordan!' growled Professor McGonagall. 'I mean after that open and revolting foul —' 'Jordan, I'm warning you —' 'All right, all right. Flint nearly kills the Gryffindor Seeker, which could happen to anyone, I'm sure, so a penalty to Gryffindor, taken by Spinnet, who puts it away, no trouble, and we continue play, Gryffindor still in possession.

Difficulty - Disgust - Finding - Meaning - Penalty - Playing - Professor - Taking

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Albert Einstein

Theoretical Physicist

When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.

Playing - Prediction

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Stephen Colbert

Comedian, Writer, Producer, Actor, TV Host

I not only loved studying theater, I loved being a theater major. It gave me an excuse to brood, to grow a beard, to wear black 'at' people. I didn't just want to play Hamlet, I wanted to be Hamlet.

Giving - Growing - Love - Playing - Studying - Wants

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Michael Jordan

Basketball Player

I would never play an extra year for money. I play the game because I love it. I just so happen to get paid. If I don't feel I still enjoy the game, I can care less what a year is worth. I'm not going to play the game just because of money.

Enjoying - Feelings - Game - Playing

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Alexander Pushkin

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)

Organizing - Playing - Wellness

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George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic, Political Activist

Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his secretary, "Is there a play from Shaw this morning?" and when she says, "No," he will say, "Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish." And that's your chance, my boy.

Boy - Mornings - Playing - Production - Wellness

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J. R. R. Tolkien

Writer, Poet, Philologist

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it. And he is bound up with the fate of the Ring. My heart tells me that he has some part to play yet, for good or ill, before the end; and when that comes, the pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many - yours not least.

Boundaries - Deal - Death - End - Illness - Playing - Wisdom

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Steve Jobs

Business Magnate, Investor

So [Polaroid's Dr. Edwin] Land, at 75, went off to spend the remainder of his life doing pure science, trying to crack the code of color vision. The man is a national treasure. I don't understand why people like that can't be held up as models: This is the most incredible thing to be - not an astronaut, not a football player - but this.

Colors - Man - Playing - Trial

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Albert Einstein

Theoretical Physicist

As I have said so many times, God doesn't play dice with the world.

Death - Playing

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Steven Spielberg

Film Producer, Film Director, Screenwriter

I always like to play with my kids. I always have the time to do that. That's my priority, always has been, so just interacting with my kids, and being with them is great.

Playing - Priority

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Tom Stoppard

Playwright, Screenwriter

You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing the job as well as they can, but there's always one or two who seem much more at home in the world of impersonation.

Jobs - Parents - Playing - Wellness

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Voltaire

Writer, Historian, Philosopher

History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

Lie - Packaging - Playing

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Barack Obama

Former President of the United States

For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only as spectacle - as we did in the OJ trial - or in the wake of tragedy, as we did in the aftermath of Katrina - or as fodder for the nightly news. We can play Reverend Wright's sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election, and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words.

Accept - Belief - Choice - Countries - Inspiration - Offence - Playing - Trial

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George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic, Political Activist

There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating.The more topical the play the more it dates.

Advancement - Liability - Man - Playing - Wellness

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Stephen King

Writer

Don't ask me silly questions I won't play silly games I'm just a simple choo choo train And I'll always be the same. I only want to race along Beneath the bright blue sky And be a happy choo choo train Until the day I die.

Death - Game - Playing - Wants

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Neil Young

Singer, Songwriter

That's a defining moment, there, when someone plays an instrument that everyone relates to around the planet.

Countries - Planet - Playing

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Jerry Seinfeld

Comedian, Actor, Writer, Producer, Director

Sometimes they'll make little Play-Doh animals, and when they go to sleep, I'll break the heads off the animals and put them at the foot of their beds for them to discover in the morning. Nothing wrong with sending your kids a little Sicilian message.

Animals - Mornings - Playing - Sleeping

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George Orwell

Novelist, Essayist, Journalist, Critic

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Boundaries - Cynicism - Playing - Sadism - Sport

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Ringo Starr

Musician, Singer, Songwriter, Actor

And so we went away to play, and we'd come back to Liverpool. And while we were doing this - 'cuz we did it for two years. And then we'd go to Germany, and that's where I met the Beatles.

Playing

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Margaret Mead

Cultural Anthropologist, Author

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

Children - Playing - Regret

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Quentin Tarantino

Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Producer

Music is very, very important in my movies. In some ways the most important stage, whether it ends up being in the movie or not, is just when I come up with the idea itself before I have actually sat down and started writing. I go into my record room... I have a big vinyl collection and I have a room kind of set up like a used record store and I just dive into my music, whether it be rock music, or lyric music, or my soundtrack collection. What I'm looking for is the spirit of the movie, the beat that the movie will play with.

End - Kindness - Playing - Spirits

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Nicki Minaj

Rapper, Singer, Songwriter, Actress, Model

Oh no we don't play with silly girls All I know is the material girls

Materialism - Playing

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