Jane McGonigal Quotes

It seems like what happens when we play games is that we go into a psychological state called eustress, or positive stress. It's basically the same as negative stress in the sense that we get our adrenaline up, you know, our breathing rate quickens, our pulse quickens.

Jane McGonigal

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I have known Marbury since he was in seventh grade, and I have always felt he is a hell of an NBA player.

Jeff Van Gundy

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Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.

Meryl Streep

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It is a relatively small number of people who want to impose their will by the use of terror on the rest of civilization, who have got a program. It's not blind violence. It's with a purpose. They want to destroy the state of Israel. They want every westerner out of the Arab countries, Middle East and elsewhere.

John Reid

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There's such a freewheeling nature to 'Second City,' and the greatest thing about 'Second City' was having a sophisticated audience night after night who appreciated what it was. They knew it wasn't all going to be great when you improvised, so they were very forgiving that way.

Steve Carell

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Far as I can tell, I still have most of my hair, my gut is not hanging over my belt, and I still have all of my teeth.

Sidney Poitier

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Although I'm living in California, I'm very proud to be British.

Rod Stewart

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My girlfriend has to beat me up to get me to relax because I work all the time.

Logic

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At the heart of any drama, there's conflict. When you are acting, you get to play out the confrontations you want to have in real life but can't. Or the emotions that you would want to have in real life, but sometimes they are too difficult.

Julia Stiles

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The cartoons which I enjoy have caused some kind of out rage, but they have got people talking about these issues out in the open and in essence that's what its all about.

Jonathan Shapiro

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When WWII ended, the Cold War started, and the interest of the Western world was not to completely break Germany. So all those Nazis who had been controlling the country now had the power to rebuild it. I think there were many of them who just continued their life in society; it's a very known fact.

Arnon Goldfinger

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I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

Willie Stargell

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Support for peaceful reform by the people themselves is the right way to promote democracy, not the use of force.

Paul Wolfowitz

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