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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.
Jimi Hendrix

Music, Die, Freak

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
Leo Buscaglia

Down, Against, Wind

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.
George Orwell

War, Jealousy, Nothing

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.
Jimi Hendrix

Hard, Easy, Blues

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
Babe Ruth

Success, Greatest, May

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
Leo Buscaglia

Time, Learning, Parents

A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.
Mike Krzyzewski

Basketball, Together, Team

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost

Down, Soon, Tennis

We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.
Michelle Obama

Success, Truth, Integrity

Life must be lived as play.
Plato

There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.
Charlie Sheen

Dark, After, Reason

When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears.
Jimi Hendrix

Forget, Everything, Eyes

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
Theodore Roosevelt

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.
Robert Kiyosaki

Truth, Afraid, Tell

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
Bill Cosby

Friends, Childhood, Essence

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.
George S. Patton

I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.
Will Smith

Women, Men, Children

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
Voltaire

Trying, Anyone, Angel

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Richard M. Nixon

Music, Beautiful, Black

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.
Johnny Depp

Yourself, Acting, Lying

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
Colin Powell

Work, Yourself, Hard

I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.
Groucho Marx

Conditions, Adverse, Curtain

I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Mitch Hedberg

Sitting, Gambling, Addicted

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.
Margaret Mead

Work, Age, Learning

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.
Barack Obama

Important, Career, Between

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Life, Child, Changes

I wish I could play little league now. I'd be way better than before.
Mitch Hedberg

Before, Wish, League

I always play women I would date.
Angelina Jolie

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life, Acting, Matters

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

Mind, Acting, Creative

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