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Johan Huizinga Quotes

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: dutch
Birth: December 7, 1872 - February 1, 1945

Topics

Experience Play Special Human Own

I had to be clean-shaven all the time to play a Mormon missionary, so after I was done, I grew a mustache out of rebellion. It was actually very polarizing. I became attractive to a completely new group of people and also repulsive to a new group of people. The lesson: mustaches are divisive.

Andrew Rannells

Time People Lesson Play New Done

Teenagers are very dark, I think. That's all the goth and emo stuff. They're experiencing a lot of stuff that adults experience, but in a much more raw way. It's that extremity that I'm interested in, to be able to go down so far and come up so quickly.

Experience Think Dark Down Go Way

I didn't want to be the lead guy. That's too much work. But I thought that it might be fun to be the lead guy's friend. I'd have days off, and still get a paycheck every week.

Robert Sean Leonard

Work Friend Fun Thought Week Want

How clear can I put this? I am not denying female oppression; I am trying to stop it by calling for a more fluid masculinity.

I Am Trying Stop Oppression More

I like to read first thing in the morning. I'm addicted to the Kindle. I read a lot of business books, because I feel like I should figure out how to be a real businessman before someone figures out that I'm not one. I really enjoy reading classics as well, which I try to work in once every two months.

Work Business Morning Reading Enjoy

Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain.

Beautiful Brain Logic You Emotional

It would have been a lot of fun as a receiver to play.

Fun Play Been Would Receiver Lot

When I was growing up, the people who liked the Beatles, I didn't like, so I didn't pay attention to them.

People Growing Up Attention Growing

I never wanted to be an actress. I am a martial arts fighter.

I Am Fighter Never Arts Actress Am

I've been seesawing between not doing too much racial stuff - because I'd rather be known as the funny comedian than the funny Chinese comedian - but at the same time embracing my voice and who I am and what makes me unique, you know, which is the racial background.

Funny Time I Am Me Voice Doing

Twitter is definitely not the place to handle business per se.

Business Place Handle Twitter Per

I love cover songs, but I always mess up the words!

Miranda Lambert

Love Words Always Mess Up Songs

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