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“We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.” Barack Obama

“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

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.” John Muir

“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

“Oh, I can't play soccer, and I'm not a great swimmer. I won't drown, but you won't see me doing laps in a pool.” Michelle Obama

“I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.” Joel Osteen

“Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts.” Ron Paul

“I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.” Dolly Parton

“I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it.” Dolly Parton

“Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.” Blaise Pascal

“The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.” Blaise Pascal

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

“I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.” Colin Powell

“We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.” Ronald Reagan

“Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.” Ronald Reagan

“If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.” Keith Richards

“Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.” Keith Richards

“You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.” Keith Richards

“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

“Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.” Babe Ruth

“All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.” Babe Ruth

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

“Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.” Bill Gates

“I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.” Bill Gates

“A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.” Marlene Dietrich

“When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.” James Dean

“There would be nothing to get me to run for president. I don't even understand how anyone would want that job at all. Although I would be able to play golf which I don't seem to have time now.” Ellen DeGeneres