Checkers Quotes

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  These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

  Kobe Bryant

  Funny, Basketball, Sports

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• My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.

  Emo Philips

  Witty, Humor, Kickboxing

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• Love is like playing checkers. You have to know which man to move.

  Moms Mabley

  Love, Moving, Inspiration

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Checkers taught me that a King is a man with another man on top of him. But life taught me that that's actually called a Queen.

  Demetri Martin

  Kings, Queens, Men

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• Unfortunately, the current generation of mail programs do not have checkers to see if the sender knows what he is talking about.

  Andrew S. Tanenbaum

  Talking, Generations, Mail

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• Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.

  Heraclitus

  Children, Kingdoms, Eternity

  "Refutation of all heresies, Book IX (Fragment 52)". Book by Hippolytus of Rome (3rd century AD), as later translated in Carl Avren Levenson and Jonathan Westphal "Reality" (p. 10), 1994.

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• All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Voting, Moral, Vote

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• I think there's something wrong with me - I like to win in everything I do, regardless of what it is. You want to race down the street, I want to beat you. If we're playing checkers, I want to win. You beat me, it's going to bother me. I just enjoy competition.

  Derek Jeter

  Success, Winning, Thinking

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• Challenge me. Treat me like a game of checkers and play me. That's all I'm asking, just play me. Treat me like Sega and play me.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Games, Play

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• I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Witty, World

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• We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers.

  Mitt Romney

  Campaigns, Facts

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• Checkers is for tramps

  Paul Morphy

  Chess, Tramps

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• I was on the train the other day, and I heard somebody say, I'm really good at checkers. That's the same thing as saying, I'm not good at very many things.

  Demetri Martin

  Heard, Train

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• All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not staked. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Character, Thinking, Voting

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• Hold'em is to stud what chess is to checkers.

  Johnny Moss

  Gambling, Ems, Chess

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• I find [Donald Trump] to be a vile human being - one that lies so often, so casually, and with such confidence, that fact-checkers actually cannot keep up.

  Chrissy Teigen

  Lying, Facts, Trump

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The National League game is chess; The American League is checkers.

  Bob Costas

  Games, League, Chess

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• It's not that the Democrats are playing checkers and the Republicans are playing chess. It's that the Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are in the nurse's office because once again they glued their balls to their thighs.

  Jon Stewart

  Nurse, Office, Balls

  "Jon Stewart Gets Fed Up: Dems Set The Bar So Low They’re Tripping Over It" by Dan Abramson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2010.

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• He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, and in which Amarana Ursula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that he was unable to bear in his soul the crushing weight of so much past.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Crush, Children, Past

  "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Book by Gabriel García Márquez, 1967.

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• The farmer doesn't care for the pitchers' battle that resolves itself into a checkers game. The farmer loves the dramatic, and slugging is more dramatic than even the cleverest pitching.

  Home Run Baker

  Games, Battle, Care

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• The Pentagon banned the army from using Chinese-made berets. In a more veiled slap at the Chinese, the Pentagon also banned any alternative form of checkers.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Army, Chinese, Alternatives

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• It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white Bibles to swear to tell the truth on in many parts of the South.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Black And White, Play, People

  "Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 13, 2010.

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• I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Games, Boards, Wells

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• I’m never gonna wait that extra twenty minutes to text you back, and I’m never gonna play hard to get when I know your life has been hard enough already. When we all know everyone’s life has been hard enough already it’s hard to watch the game we make of love, like everyone’s playing checkers with their scars, saying checkmate whenever they get out without a broken heart. Just to be clear I don’t want to get out without a broken heart. I intend to leave this life so shattered there’s gonna have to be a thousand separate heavens for all of my flying parts.

  Andrea Gibson

  Heart, Enough Already, Play Hard

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• If you want to build a high performance organization, you've got to play chess, not checkers.

  Mark Millar

  Play, Organization, Want

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