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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.


Jack London
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I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!
Bear Grylls
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Whether you're shuffling a deck of cards or holding your breath, magic is pretty simple: It comes down to training, practice, and experimentation, followed up by ridiculous pursuit and relentless perseverance.
David Blaine
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I never feel particularly comfortable holding a gun, but when you're playing somebody who lived in the frontier southwest, guns are a part of their life. Anyone who lives on land has a gun.
Cate Blanchett
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I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them.
Peter Mullan
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If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone.
Craig Ferguson
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Frasier will always hold a special place in my heart. He's a great character I Ioved playing, and he's still a wonderful part of my life. But he was a lot of work!
Kelsey Grammer
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WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren't playing so well, you don't have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.
Tom Brady
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Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.


Steven Wright
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Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental life.
Wilhelm Wundt
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The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art.
Montgomery Clift
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Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
James Bryce
There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.
Albert Ellis
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Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.


Chester W. Nimitz
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I'm one of those people at the airport holding a pillow like a little kid.


Rachel Platten
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The issue of terrorism must be dealt with firmly. We must work very hard to avoid loss of life. We must work very hard to avoid civilian casualties. And those terrorists and Baathists are holding the people of Fallujah hostage. We must release the hostages.
Ahmed Chalabi
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I know, if I am playing well, I can be as good as anyone, and I want to show people who write you off and forget about you.
Alan Smith
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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.


Arthur Schopenhauer
The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
Karl Shapiro
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The simplest way to say it is that I think we're all dealt these cards in life, but the cards in and of themselves don't read one way or the other. It's up to you to home in and cultivate whatever you've got in your hand.
Pharrell Williams
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