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Quotes
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Authors
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Conrad Hyers
"We live in an ironic society where even play is turned into work. But the highest existence is not work; the highest level of existence is play."
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Conrad Hyers
#Play Quotes
#Ironic Quotes
#Levels Quotes
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“It's always better to be the dumper than the dumpee.”
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“Plastic man got no brain, plastic man don't feel no pain.”
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“Elections in L.A. are so different. Here you've got politicians with phony smiles making false promises to voters with fake ***** and bad toupees.”
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“Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.”
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“The whole world is tense. Everybody gets the international news. Theres been no American comedy at all that even remotely addresses the subject in any way. My goal isnt to solve the worlds problems. My character wasnt even able to do his assignment. But the premise of wanting to find out about somebody -- other than the stuff that the CIA will tell you -- theres no hope unless we do that.”
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“To define Buddhism without a lot of words and phrases, we can simply say, 'Don't cling or hold on to anything. Harmonize with actuality, with things as they are.'”
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“I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.”
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“I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won the prize for best all-around student. Afterwards my father said to me, 'Never, ever disgrace me like that again.' When I tell my Western friends, they are aghast. But I adore my father. It didn't knock my self-esteem at all.”
