“President Obama just made his first presidential trip to the state of Utah. Obama spent his time in Utah just like you'd expect - telling people, 'Uh, no, I don't play for the Jazz.'” PeopleFirstsMadeStatesPlayPresidentLike YouJazzPresidentialPresident ObamaUtah Author:Jimmy Fallon
“I want to be an NBA all-star and help my team win. That's what it's all about, is winning. I'm a competitor... People said a lot about me being selfish and stuff like that. Getting into the league, I can't wait to shut that down. I'm a guy who wants to play and to win and love my teammates.” PeopleWantSaidI CanPlayHelpingGuyWinningStarsStuffWaitingTeamAnd LoveSelfishLeagueNbaCompetitorsTeammateBeing SelfishAll Stars Author:Shabazz Muhammad
“The sympathies of a well-adjusted person can easily be aroused by the plight of strangers. Indeed, the skillful writer of a novel, a play, or an opera can engage our emotions on behalf of people who are not only strangers to us, but who do not even exist! And a person whose emotions cannot be so aroused is not behaving normally.” PeopleWellsPersonsPlayEmotionNovelStrangerOperaHuman ConditionBehalfSkillfulPlight Author:John Derbyshire
“In Hollywood, we have some of the richest unemployed people in the world. They have sun tans. Some of them have chauffeurs in Rolls-Royces waiting outside. They have their golf clubs ready in the car. There is no law that says you cannot play golf while being unemployed.” PeopleWorldPlayFunnyLawWaitingSunCarReadyHollywoodGolfClubsCaliforniaUnemployedGolf ClubsRolls RoyceChauffeurs Book:A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman Source: A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman
“We need to look at our nannying, mollycoddled, politically correct culture in my view, which stops kids from going out and playing competitive sport. I also think we need to look at the shear fatness of the regulations which control people who want to help kids play sport.” PeopleThinkingWantNeedsLooksPlayHelpingKidsCultureSportsViewsFootballSoccerAnalysisRegulationGoing OutPolitically CorrectFatnessCompetitive Sports Author:Boris Johnson
“If you do something and it proves to be a success, then people go 'get him to do that type of thing again, but only slightly different'. Either you do that or you go 'No! I want to play a leprous, lesbian dwarf from Guatemala!' But those parts just aren't coming to me.” PeopleIfsWantDifferentPlayFilmTypeProveHollywoodDwarfsDwarvesGuatemala Author:Jack Davenport
“We got to stop people. We go ahead and we score 100 points every night, but we give up more. Our whole thing was, we know we can score, and we have to start having some kind of fun on the defensive end. Everybody want to play offense. Not too many people want to play defense. Defense is ego, pride, and that's the way we've been coming out, just taking the challenge. Man-on-man first, and having each other's back when a guy gets beat.” PeopleKnowsMenWayWantGivingFirstsKindEndsPlayWholeNightGuyFunSportsChallengesPrideEgoGiving UpBeatsDefenseScoreComing OutEvery NightOffenseBack When Author:Allen Iverson
“The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has left a mark on our culture to be voted as one of the best to ever play.” PeopleImportantPlayCultureGamesLeftSportsUltimateMarkSignificance Author:Barry Sanders
“People ask me who he reminds me of. The way he's playing, I'd say he doesn't remind me of anybody. I've never seen anybody - running back, quarterback, wide receiver - make the plays that Vince Young made today.” PeopleWayMadePlayRunningTodayYoungAsksSportsWideAsk MeQuarterbackReceiverRunning BackWide Receiver Author:Dan Fouts
“Just before I got down here I had a chance to see Agassi play another game and he smoked another player, which was nice to see. Someone who a lot of people thought couldn't come back and now he's winning.” PeoplePlayGamesWinningSportsChanceNicePlayer Author:Elvis Stojko
“You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there's certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantYearsWellsPlayRememberGamesNamesSportsAmbitionBest Ever Author:Marcus Allen
“The commotions that have taken place in America, as far as they are yet known to me, offer nothing threatening. They are a proof that the people have liberty enough, and I could not wish them less than they have. If the happiness of the mass of the people can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase. 'Malo libertatem periculosam quam quietem servitutem.' Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.” PeopleIfsLittlesEnoughPlayAmericaPoliticsWishCommonKnownLibertyEconomyTakenRightsBloodHonestyOffersMassFairsProofCommon SenseLiberalismExpensesNow And ThenThreateningTempestSecuredFair Play Book:Correspondence Source: Correspondence
“This is a group playing together and that's the only way, I feel, this play can be successful and moving. I am so lucky to have the people that are in it. When I came here I didn't know who was going to be in the play.” PeopleKnowsWayFeelsPlayTogetherMovingSuccessfulGroupsLuckyBeing SuccessfulSo LuckyPlaying Together Author:Gavin MacLeod
“If you want to help people, if you care, go to the cities. The city is where the pain is the greatest - and the cities are a hell of a lot of fun if you like art, movies and plays.” PeopleIfsWantArtPlayHelpingCarePainFunCitiesHellBuddhismIf You Care Author:Frederick Lenz
“My ex-wife has never broken 150. I wish she would stop telling people I taught her how to play golf.” PeoplePlayWishWifeTaughtBrokenGolfExesEx Wife Author:Bruce Lansky
“I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. The horse is out of the barn... In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.” PeopleThinkingTryingImportantPlayAgeAblePastGenerationsTalentLateHorseTricksToo LateBarnsPast Generations Author:Clint Eastwood
“There wasn't a big tradition of comedy at Dartmouth. More than that, there wasn't really anything artsy going on in Hanover, or even in New Hampshire. The cool thing about the school is that there's nothing for people to watch, so if you were to do a play or a sketch or an improv troupe, it was always packed. There's nowhere else for anyone to go. But there was no comedy.” PeopleIfsPlayBigsSchoolWatchesComedyTraditionCool ThingsHampshireNew HampshireDartmouthTroupe Author:Mindy Kaling
“I love theater. I go all the time. It's one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that I have limited range as an actor. I can only play people who talk like me.” PeopleI CanReasonPlayActorsNew YorkTheaterMovedLike MeRange Author:Steve Earle
“That singular uncompromising nature I think is always quite attractive, not just for an actor to play, we're attracted to uncompromising people whether they're nice or not, because they're 3D, they're solid, you can define them, it's not wishy washy.” PeopleThinkingPlayActorsNiceAttractiveUncompromising Author:James McAvoy
“People sometimes say, "Isn't it boring, isn't it always the same? It's the same lines." I go, "Well, do you play tennis? Because that's the best analogy I can give." If you go out eight times and play tennis eight times this week, yeah it's the same rules but it's a different game every time you're out on that court.And that's the best analogy I can come up with the theater.” PeopleIfsGivingWellsI CanDifferentSometimesPlayGamesLinesWeekTheaterYeahCourtCome UpBoringEightTennisAnalogies Author:Kevin Spacey
“Some people come to you because if you're in their movie, it'll help them raise money. And some people come to you because they think you're the person to play the part.” PeopleIfsThinkingPersonsPlayHelpingRaises Author:Kevin Costner
“I play enough other mad people, as well and some sane people, to vary the palette of what's scrabbling around in my head and soul to bring to the floor, as a storyteller.” PeopleWellsSoulEnoughPlayMadSaneStorytellerVaryPalette Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face.” PeopleMatterPlayCharacterFacesPretending Author:Stanley Tucci
“From 13, I wanted to play drums. I wanted to play with good people and I'm still doing it. I still love it so that's why I do it.” PeopleStillsPlayWantedGood People Author:Ringo Starr
“I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hundred people than it is to play in front of thousands with an entire bombastic band behind you. After all these years, I still get nervous in front of people. I can't help it.” PeopleYearsStillsI CanPlayHelpingBehindsFrontsBandHundredHarderGuitarShouldersNervousOver YouBehind YouAcousticsAcoustic GuitarBombastic Author:Robin Zander
“I definitely don't want to play by myself. I don't relate to playing music that way. I like interacting with people.” PeopleWayWantPlayRelatePlaying MusicInteracting Author:Avey Tare
“The videos are sometimes the only way for people across the country and different places to see and hear the music. They may not get the same radio stations or they don't get the same TV channels, they don't have the same MTV that plays the same music. People will use to the Internet and that's why YouTube and stuff like that is so important.” PeopleWayMayImportantDifferentCountrySometimesPlayUseStuffTvsInternetRadioVideoStationsYoutubeDifferent PlaceMtvRadio Stations Author:Kid Ink
“When the American people look at the political process play out, they hear all the spinning and all the doctrinaire language, and they still walk away with the belief that they're not being represented in Congress, that there's no trust in the executive branch.” PeopleLooksStillsPlayPoliticalBeliefLanguageProcessWalksCongressBranchesExecutivesSpinningExecutive BranchNo Trust Author:David Gregory
“The more serious the situation, the funnier the comedy can be. The greatest comedy plays against the greatest tragedy. Comedy is a red rubber ball and if you throw it against a soft, funny wall, it will not come back. But if you throw it against the hard wall of ultimate reality, it will bounce back and be very lively. Very, very few people understand this.” PeopleIfsHardPlayRealitySituationComedySeriousWallRedUltimateBallsTragedyLivelyBounceRubberUltimate Reality Author:Mel Brooks
“The first role I ever played I had the lead and it's pretty much stayed that way, though people take great relish in calling me a character actor, which I am. There are a lot of short parts I could play, but I only do them when they are like this ("A Few Good Men"), central to the idea of the movie.” PeopleWayFirstsIdeasPlayCharacterActorsRolesCallingRelishCharacter Actors Author:Jack Nicholson
“I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's your homeland or when you're traveling. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life.” PeopleThinkingDonePlayUsedNormalHomelandParts Of Life Author:Aaron Rodgers
“It's hard for me to play seated theaters because people tend to sit down and get a little bit complacent, so it's less energy. It's just very dry and dead. People start to feel like they're watching a movie. The environment when they walk into it, it's not standing room only, smoking and drinking and rock 'n' roll. So it's a little bit dangerous to do that.” PeopleFeelsLittlesHardPlayEnergyBitsWalksRoomsEnvironmentRocksDangerousLittle BitStandingTheaterDown AndDrinkingDrySmokingRock N RollComplacentDead PeopleSmoking And Drinking Author:Jack White
“It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned me into a songwriter that way, just so I could be able to play with other people.” PeopleWayWritingHardPlayAbleTogetherSongGuitarSongwriters Author:Jack White
“I've lived a little bit and traveled the world and experienced a lot of things that I can play any role, and I think I can get into stuff that people never thought I would ever do because of my experiences and growth as a person.” PeopleThinkingWorldLittlesPersonsI CanPlayStuffBitsGrowthRolesLittle BitTraveled Author:Chris Tucker
“There are ways in which you can make sure that even if people come to the theatre because they know an actor or actress, by the end, theyve forgotten that, and they leave going, Wow - what an amazing play.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayEndsPlayActorsForgottenActressesTheatreWow Author:Kevin Spacey
“Make a list of 200 prestigious, influential, and powerful people with whom you want to work, play, grow and do business.” PeopleWantPlayGrowsPowerfulListsInfluentialPrestigiousWork Play Author:Mark Victor Hansen
“At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find the inner motivation to search for new ideas on your own. With any luck at all, you’ll never need to take an idea and squeeze a punchline out of it, but as bright, creative people, you’ll be called upon to generate ideas and solutions all your lives. Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.” PeopleWorldWayNeedsMindIdeasPlayProblemSchoolMotivationCreativeSolutionsLuckSolveBest WayNew IdeasThrustCreative PeoplePunchlines Author:Bill Watterson
“Successful people see an opportunity and they GO for it. They play bigger and go deeper into the circles of success. They don't hold back.” PeoplePlayOpportunitySuccessfulBiggerDeeperCirclesSuccessful People Author:Loral Langemeier
“People keep asking me, 'What evil lurks in you to play such bad characters?' There is no evil in me, I just wear tight underwear.” PeoplePlayCharacterEvilAskingUnderwearBad Character Author:Dennis Hopper
“I've done loads of things people have never seen, dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush, and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.” PeopleDonePlaySchoolDramaCourtLoadRoyalUpstairs Author:Rafe Spall