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  • Bridget Riley As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.
    Bridget Riley: dialogues on art
    Bridget Riley
    English painter (1931 - )
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  • Butch Trucks As long as all four of my limbs keep moving and I can still sit up straight and play hard rock and roll for 2 and a half to 3 hours, I'm gonna keep doing it, and I'm gonna do it the way I do it.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Steffi Graf As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.
    Steffi Graf
    German tennis player (1969 - )
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  • Bill Engvall As my wife says, I'll never fully retire, but it'll start to slow down. I'll continue to do the local gigs or go to Las Vegas. But I won't be going out to Ohio to play an Indian casino anymore. Those will probably go by the wayside.
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • August Wilson As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
    August Wilson
    American playwright (1945 - 2005)
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  • Ben Hogan As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
    Ben Hogan
    American professional golfer (1912 - )
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  • Billy Evans Ball teams do not always run true to form in a short series. In a season's campaign, class will tell; the best team will invariably win, unless disaster overtakes it. In a short series, some freak situation, same unusual play, may prove to be the turning point.
    Billy Evans
    American umpire in Major League Baseball (1884 - )
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  • Bill James Baseball does become slow sometimes. It's totally unnecessary. The - you can play baseball fast. You can play it slow, and for some reason, we have chosen to play it slow, you know, which is unfortunate, but nothing you can do about.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Henry van Dyke Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Bill Engvall Because we've become so ecologically minded now, they have developed a product called Rapidly Dissolving Toilet Paper. Just how rapidly are we talking? 'Cause I don't want to have to play Beat the Clock in the thicket.
    Blue Collar Comedy Tour
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Maxwell Maltz Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Fran Lebowitz Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Henry Kissinger Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
    Henry Kissinger
    American politician (1923 - 2023)
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  • B. B. King Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Bill James Bunting is usually a waste of time. The - generally, yeah, I mean, if you think about it, bunt is the only play in baseball that both sides applaud. The - if the home team bunts, you get a base. The home team applauds because they get an out, and the other team applauds because they get a base. So what does that tell you?
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Bootsy Collins But by us doing a lot on the road, we were able to afford things like videos on the tours, cartoons that we'd open up the shows with. We were doing that way back when and now it's the hippest thing to do. We're just coming back around, I guess trying to play catch-up.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are on concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.
    The Worlds Last Night (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Buddy Rich But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Billy Bragg But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn't get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan's love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Jim Rohn By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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