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If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. – Martin Luther King, Jr.	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Dawson Well, all I'm saying is that I want to look back and say that I did it the best I could while I was stuck in this place. Had as much fun as I could while I was stuck in this place. Played as hard as I could while I was stuck in this place. Dogged as many girls as I could while I was stuck in this place. – Dazed and Confused	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Ace The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like checkin' into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday. Today, it's all gone. You get a whale show up with four million in a suitcase, and some twenty-five-year-old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number. After the Teamsters got knocked out of the box, the corporations tore down practically every one of the old casinos. And where did the money come from to rebuild the pyramids Junk bonds. But in the end, I wound up right back where I started. I could still pick winners, and I could still make money for all kinds of people back home. And why mess up a good thing – Casino	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it. – Bobby Jones	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play. – Eric Hoffer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it. – Richard Milhous Nixon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks. – Thomas Jefferson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You have played enough you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart. – Horace	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest. – Ty Cobb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace. – John Mason Brown	added by anonymous 14 years ago
An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. (On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon) – Gerald R. Ford	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees. – J. J. Fumas	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The reason the Mets have played so well at Shea this year is they have the best home record in baseball. – Ralph Kiner	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey. – Pat Conroy	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I hate music, especially when it's played. – Jimmy Durante	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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