Quotes with game-shows

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  • Warren Buffett If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Vannevar Bush If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
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  • John Cage If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
    John Cage
    American composer and music (1912 - 1992)
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  • Bill Nye If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Bert Lance If the house is on fire, and the fireman shows up, you don't question his color or credentials. You don't send him back to the firehouse and say, 'Send somebody else.'
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • William James If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained... it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Aldous Huxley If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make-believe.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Barry Diller If we're going to talk about our businesses, we're going to have to talk about them within the constraints of the disclosure rules, without giving guidance, because we're not going to give guidance, because we don't believe that it is a sensible game to play.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Thomas J. Watson If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.
    Thomas J. Watson
    American Businessman, Founder of IBM (1874 - 1956)
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  • Dean Smith If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.
    Dean Smith
    American basketball coach (1931 - 2015)
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  • Gregory Nunn If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral.
    Gregory Nunn
    American golf player (1955 - )
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  • Aaron C. Brown If you want to understand financial markets, and their effects on the economy, you have to understand the trading game. Many short-term price movements are neither random nor caused by economic fundamentals. They're caused by investors buying and selling.
    The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 1
    Aaron C. Brown
    American finance practitioner (1956 - )
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  • Bob Hope If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
    Bob Hope
    American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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  • Gabriel Heatter If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.
    Gabriel Heatter
    American radio commentator and journalist (1890 - 1972)
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  • Barbara Jordan If you're going to play the game [politics] properly, you'd better know every rule.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Bernard Sahlins Improvisation is not a presentational form, except in small doses, or as a game. It's a tool.
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  • Woody Allen In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Bill Paxton In our game, it's your vanity that keeps you in shape. I've got a little gym set up, and I ride a single-speed bike up the hills behind my house. Lately I've been kind of a slacker. Usually it's a film role that makes me start getting in shape. Between roles, I try to do a little maintenance, but I'm not a workout fanatic at all.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Anita Brookner In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Carl Hagelin In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
    Carl Hagelin
    Swedish ice hockey player (1988 - )
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