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Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

People Night House Cards

Comedy isn't necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it's a question of timing, of the proper rhythm.

Face Sometimes Think Comedy

The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.

Science Trust Fly Sometimes

I like to play cards. I'm not very good, because I don't want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I've learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker.

Good Business Cards Philosophy

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

Jackie Robinson

You Game Losing Nobody

I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table.

Look Way Eye Someone

I feel very badly about anybody that's sick and in a wheelchair or not doing well. But you know, you have to go, 'Life is a poker game, and we're going to play our cards somehow.'

Life You Game Sick

I'm not a poker player; I play slot machines.

Play Machines Player Slot

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

You Game Look Tell

I was good at most subjects at school. Looking back, I was a proper boffin! Now, the thing I'm really good at is poker.

Good Looking Back School Looking

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Poker is a charismatic game. People who are larger than life play poker and make their living from playing games and hustling.

Life People Game Play

Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.

Game Chance Skill Pretending

What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning.

Wilford Brimley

Learning You Know Room

No, that's poker. To win, you've gotta get damned lucky.

Wilford Brimley

You Win Lucky Get

If you're in the minority, every advantage is against you, right? So the only advantage you have against the majority is they're too lazy to know their own rules, right? So it's like a game of poker.

You Game Know Rules

As for poker, I've stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean's Eleven, I would get accosted by these guys begging me to play. They just want to take my money. They see me, think 'actor' and see some easy money.

Me Money Ocean Think

Things that are so hard for people, like playing championship-level Go and poker, have turned out to be relatively easy for the machines. Yet at the same time, the things that are easiest for a person - like making sense of what they see in front of them, speaking in their mother tongue - the machines really struggle with.

Mother Time People Struggle

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

Life Like Risk Should

The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker.

Things Only Competitive

Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Life Myself Never Stage

I moved to Los Angeles. My parents were not on board with that, and so I had to get a lot of different jobs. One of them was working for a man in Hollywood who had a weekly poker game.

Man Game Parents Different

I made the choice to go into the world of underground poker.

World Go Choice Made

When you're willing to play poker for two days and lose millions of dollars, it's no longer recreation. It's taking over.

You Lose Play Two

I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.

Antonio Banderas

Game Artist Try Being

It's almost like, when someone plays poker for the first time, they might be a professional poker player out of ignorance, just accidentally winning. That was how it felt in my first stand-up appearance.

Time Ignorance Winning Appearance

I am a poker player, but I am not a good poker player. My favorite game is seven card stud, but I'll play hi/lo, Hold 'em, Razz, etc.

Michael Ian Black

Good I Am Game Play

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