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No where else in Christianity does the terrible or heroic name of Armageddon play such role as in America. Not even in the Revelation of John.
Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.
I don't care how good you play, you can find somebody who can beat you, and I don't care how bad you play, you can find somebody you can beat.
The knee just isn't 100 percent. It's hard to be out there when you know that you can't play at your best and could potentially make it worse.
The need for innovation – the lifeblood of business – is widely recognized, and imagination and play are key ingredients for making it happen.
I was very lucky once I got started with a career. I happened to get some really good parts to play with some really good people to play with.
It seems to me that most people are impressed with just three things: how fast you can play, how high you can play, and how loud you can play.
Being able to play a role where you're there almost every day and you're just in it... I remember it was a whirlwind, but it was a lot of fun.
Actually, it's great to play with someone who tries to come up with interesting drum beats because it pushes the music in different directions.
Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.
I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.
My ideal role would be anything that allows me to play anyone the public is familiar with and to be able to show them that, but in a new light.
Music plays a huge role in the movie. The music in Star Wars, I can't imagine what the movie would have been like without it. It made the film.
I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you can let yourself play music.
But it just comes down to trying to get the work out there and however the team fits together then that's the way it sort of plays into itself.
I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.
Everything I did actually helped to build the revenue, shall we say, of experience, which enabled me to play a variety of roles as I got older.
When I got out of high school, I thought, I'll take a year or two off and play the clubs, get this out of my system, and then go to med school.
When we're doing our lessons, the teacher doesn't say, 'Ready, set, work,' They say, 'Ready, set, play,' and I always took that word seriously.
I rented a house, recorded the stuff in a house. Just took my time 'cuz sometimes it's just rush, rush, rush. I just wanna live and play music.
The last thing we wanted was a copycat. When we saw [Richie Faulkner] play, we thought, "We don't have to tell this guy anything. He's got it."
To me, the object of practicing is to allow you to play what you hear. But you're always hearing new things, so you never get to the end of it.
Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.
The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
Some of us are going to play faster than others. Hitting the right notes and getting your technique right is so much more important than speed.
I like the idea of being a youngish parent. So I've got energy to play football even though they'll be better than me by the time they're four.
I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play.
I was very excited when I first started to travel so much. In fact, I was amazed that people were paying me to travel to play the game I loved.
I guess I'm lucky that I've been able to play a wide range of parts and a wide range of types of productions - I haven't felt much typecasting.
Part of my job being a leader and captain of the team is not just to play well and lead well but find a way to make everybody around me better.
The music, I think, is just as important as the lyrics; it portrays the emotion of the song. I play the kind of music that I want to listen to.
As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to stuff my thoughts inside.
I love to play, I love to dance, I love to party . . . I'm a liver. I think what I need to learn is how to find the calmness, the centeredness.
I love the process of acting, simply because I like to play make believe. But for me, it is purely make believe and it is a process of playing.
But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.
I'm not a prophet of doom, I'm a prophet of love. But love will bid a warning doom to the children who play on the freeway. We need to wake up.
For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into play.
I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the foundations I'm involved in. Science gives hope.
There is no moment more precious than the exact moment they are living. And that exact moment has a lot to do with how future moments play out.
As an actor - like an artist - you have to ask, "Why do I choose a certain moment to play something a certain way?" It's organic to who we are.
I don't play the same guy a lot because there really isn't a guy for me. There really isn't a type you can put me in that satisfies everything.
I don't play sports. The only sports I play is shopping. But there is a lot of walking involved in that... running sometimes if there's a sale.
When I photograph someone, I want to shoot the subject and get them out of my studio so I can play with the photos and do all the stuff I want.
When we play games, our brains respond differently to stress and obstacles. We're better able to control our attention and ignore distractions.
Definitely dub is in my body forever. I think I hear everything through a dub filter. Even when I play rock music, I play through a dub filter.
I have one computer that my wife gave me. All I know how to do, and I do it every day, is play Spider Solitaire. And I don't have a cell phone.
I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.
You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it.
For years now, the Lakers have expressed interest in having me play for them, but we could never get the stars to align. I'm finally a Laker...