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“Poetry is a bad medium for philosophy. Everything in the philosophical poem has to satisfy irreconcilable requirements: for instance, the last demand that we should make of philosophy (that it be interesting) is the first we make of a poem; the philosophical poet has an elevated and methodical, but forlorn and absurd air as he works away at his flying tank, his sewing-machine that also plays the piano.”

Should Firsts Philosophy Play Lasts Interesting Air Poet Demand Machines Philosophical Flying Absurd Mediums Instance Piano Poetry Is Requirements Tanks Sewing Forlorn Methodical

Author:Randall Jarrell

“In speaking of the work of machines and of natural forces we must, of course, in this comparison eliminate anything in which activity of intelligence comes into play. The latter is also capable of the hard and intense work of thinking, which tries a man just as muscular exertion does.”

Thinking Men Trying Doe Hard Play Courses Force Natural Activity Capable Machines Intense Latter Comparison Exertion

Book:Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

Source: Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

“A writer from ESPN magazine once described me as the world's largest eleven-year-old. That's true. I ride my Sea-Doo jet ski, play putt-putt golf, go to water parks, and act silly. On the bottom floor of my house in Beverly Hills, I have video games, a pool table, a Pepsi machine, and all the things they have in arcades. I drive go-karts, at least the ones I can fit in. I karate-chop my friends when they come over, like the Kato dude in the Pink Panther movies.”

“It is as dangerous for people unaccustomed to handling words and unacquainted with their technique to tinker about with these heavily-charged nuclei of emotional power as it would be for me to burst into a laboratory and play about with a powerful electromagnet or other machine highly charged with electrical force.”

People Play Would Be Force Powerful Dangerous Emotional Machines Technique Laboratory Electrical Nucleus Emotional Power

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“So, think about how you use a disc that you own of an Xbox 360 game. If I buy the disc from a store, I use that disc in my machine, I can give that disc to my son and he can play it on his 360 in his room. We both can't play at the same time, but the disc is the key to playing. I can go round to your house and give you that disc and you can play on that game as well.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Wells I Can Play Use Games House Rooms Son Keys Machines Rounds Stores My Son Discs Xbox

Author:Larry Hryb

“I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original Goldeneye. Im that geek. I have an NBA Jam arcade machine in my office at SNL.”

Stills Play Office Machines Originals Nba Hook Geek Jam Snl Nintendo Arcades

Author:Taran Killam

“I always want to try new things, and 'Mean Machine' has given me that chance. I have got plans to carry on acting and would love to play all sorts of roles - you'll see that there's more strings to my bow!”

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Author:Vinnie Jones

“Lully's machine, Mill's fear and Lasswitz's chaotic library can be the subject of jokes, but they exaggerate a propensity which is common: making metaphysics and the arts into a kind of play with combinations.”

Kind Art Play Common Subjects Jokes Machines Mathematics Library Combination Metaphysics Chaotic Mills Propensity

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“I didn't much like Las Vegas. The noise of the place and the whole 24-hour, 'let's play the slot machines all night' culture of the place just left me cold.”

Play Whole Night Culture Left Hours Cold Machines Noise All Night Vegas Las Vegas Slot Machines

Author:James Nesbitt

“I do get labeled as a guitar band, but the only reason is that's the instrument I know how to play. The guitar is serving the song I'm writing. But I'm learning how to play keyboard better now so that'll start serving the song as well; it'll be another flavor. I'm not going to switch it up with big, fat drum machine beats and real swoopy synths, but yeah...”

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Author:Mac DeMarco

“The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires. When you're acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.”

Giving Play Acting Source Machines Cameras Wire Giving Back

Author:Al Pacino

“Most of the note-taking happens while I'm watching television. It's a broad window on the world, and a lot of things are already established in my mind as things I say, things that I'm interested in, things that are fodder for my [stand-up] machine. And when I see something that relates to one of them, I know it instantly and if it's a further exaggeration and a further addition, or an exception - if it plays into furthering my purpose, I jot it down.”

Ifs Knows World Mind Play Happens Purpose Television Window Machines Notes Relate Exception Broads Exaggeration Watching Television Fodder Note Taking

Author:George Carlin

“One of the differences between now and then is that the idea of body image is a much bigger issue now. Back then, just being kind of heavy and barrel-chested passed for heroic. Now, you wouldn't dare to play a hero without a lot of dieting and various specialised abdomen machines. But that was one of the things which was interesting about it and I did want to portray because there's good and bad.”

Want Kind Ideas Play Body Differences Interesting Issues Hero Machines Bigger Various Dare Heavy Be Kind Heroic Now And Then Just Being Body Image Good And Bad Barrels Dieting Abdomen

Author:Ben Affleck

“The coolest thing, and I have it at home, is a huge Hulk Hogan, normal-sized pinball machine. When people come over they play it for hours. When you hit the bumpers and the bells ring it goes, 'Oh yeah!' The whole time you're playing this machine it's yelling and screaming at you, 'What you gonna do, brother?!' I think that's the coolest.”

People Thinking Play Whole Home Hours Brother Huge Normal Machines Yeah Rings Bells Yelling Bumper Pinball Yelling And Screaming

Author:Hulk Hogan

“Machines certainly can solve problems, store information, correlate, and play games - but not with pleasure.”

Play Problem Games Pleasure Information Machines Solve Stores

Book:Passions & Prejudices: Or, Some of My Best Friends are People

Source: Passions & Prejudices: Or, Some of My Best Friends are People

“We're just one cog in this giant machine. You show up and look at all the other cogs like, "Wow, everyone is the best at what they do." You're in really good hands. And that frees you up to play and feel safe, and you can take chances, creatively. You can take risks. I want to show up to work and take risks. I don't ever want to play it safe.”

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Author:James Badge Dale

“Sometimes, when you do the music for a play, there are very clear boundaries as to what needs to be achieved. You're very much a little cog in a much bigger machine.”

Needs Littles Sometimes Play Clear Machines Bigger Boundaries Cogs

Author:Richard Dawson

“What we have done over the last 40 or 50 years is systematically attacked and weakened the parties, the political machines, the professionals, and insiders, and hacks, and all the tools that they use to get politicians to play well together. And with those gone, you get chaos.”

Years Wells Done Play Use Together Lasts Political Party Gone Politician Tools Machines Chaos Hacks Insiders

Author:Jonathan Rauch

“Drummers get bored. You tell them to play something simple, and it gets more complicated as they do it. If they're not a composer, if they don't have any kind of investment in the music, they'll just add a bit there and another bit there, and you think no! Don't do that. So you end up using a drum machine.”

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Author:Phil Collins

“I will say it's great - that Method Man - Cliff Smith - plays a rapper in a laundromat who is working out some lyrics sort of to the rhythm of a washing machine. And something about hip-hop culture and hip-hop is the ability to use current language and slang and reference details of life is very, very strong for me.”

“When I went in there, we used drum machine on "Time After Time" and "Human Nature".We don't use the drum machine to play a pattern. You play the pattern by being consistent.”

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Author:Miles Davis

“Maybe you play a melody twice. You play it once like you like it, and some parts that you don't like you can just switch. An eight-bar motive - you can just take it and put it in the front or back or something like that. It can save you 50 or 60 or 70,000 dollars, a drum machine. That's why everybody uses it.”

Play Use Fronts Like You Machines Dollars Eight Bars Motive Melody You Like It

Author:Miles Davis

“I got to play Kim in Bye Bye Birdie, Sandy in Grease, and Maria in The Sound of Music. And it was so much fun for me, but the thing that I looked forward to the most was at the cast parties. After the shows they had karaoke machines set up and that's when I could sing country music.”

Country Play Shows Fun Sound Party Machines Casts Bye Kim Grease Sandy Karaoke Sound Of Music Bye Bye Bye Bye Birdie

Author:Taylor Swift

“The thing I like about my body is that it's strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse... I can play basketball. It's a well functioning machine.”

Wells I Can Play Body Moving Strong Basketball Machines Horse Apartment Furniture

Author:Cindy Crawford