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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Nature
Kahlil Gibran

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Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
Acting and Actors
Jeff Goldblum

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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
Girls
Oliver Goldsmith

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As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.
Enjoyment
Steffi Graf

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Divorce is a game played by lawyers.
Divorce
Cary Grant

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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
Risk
Dag Hammarskjold

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If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.
President
Vaclav Havel

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The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
Vocation
William Hazlitt

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.
Death and Dying
Jimi Hendrix

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As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
Enjoyment
Ben Hogan

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I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
Competition
Ben Hogan

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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
Loneliness
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Praise
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Golf
Bob Hope

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.
Failure
Tom Hopkins

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You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue -- agree with him.
Agreement
Edgar Watson Howe

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One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.
Plays
Elbert Hubbard

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Play needs direction as well as work.
Plays
Elbert Hubbard

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If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.
Risk
Shirley Hufstedler

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Playing Shakespeare is really tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're the king.
Plays
Josephine Hull

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They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.
Basketball
Earvin ''Magic'' Johnson

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.
Enjoyment
Michael Jordan

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Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
Chess
Gary Kasparov

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I write plays for people who wouldn't be seen dead in the theatre.
Theater
Barrie Keeffe

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.
Cities and City Life
Murray Kempton

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun