Cards Quotes - Page 2

• Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Motivational, Yoga

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• Love is the one wild card.

  Taylor Swift

  Love Is

  "Taylor Swift Talks". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. October 4, 2010.

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• One of the concepts I was having trouble illustrating was the concept that administrative systems create narrow categories of gender and force people into them in order to get their basic needs met - what I call "administrative violence." I had images of forms with gender boxes and ID cards with gender markers, but I also wanted an image that would capture how basic services like shelters are gender segregated.

  Dean Spade

  Order, People, Needs

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• I still don't have any crushes on actresses or models. It's always been one of those things with girlfriends. They say, "Who's on your list?" What do you call it, the Get Out of Jail Free card?

  Henry Cavill

  Crush, Girlfriend, Jail

  "Henry Cavill Often Wonders Why the F*ck He's Shirtless". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. February 18, 2016.

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• The descent of Israel from the morally towering position of a 'light for the nations' to the lowest of the low and one of the last relics of bygone shameful times of merciless imperialism, conquest, exploitation is on the cards.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Light, Israel, Lasts

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• It felt, like, so far from - or far enough from the reality of things that we can enjoy it purely as entertainment. And now it feels a little bit too in alignment, honestly, but yeah - so we'll see how season five [House of Cards] goes over there.

  Mahershala Ali

  Reality, House Of Cards, Littles

  Source: www.npr.org

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• As in the case of California, the wolf is at the door of America and the present administration acts as if it's a pussycat. America cannot maintain the present entitlement programs and support a government this size and keep on living on a credit card.

  Charlie Daniels

  Government, Doors, California

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• Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards. This is your life and mine. I've spent a whole lifetime building this and as long as I'm in charge, nobody is going to knock it down.

  Mr. Lee

  Games, Iron, Long

  "Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew dies at 91". www.bbc.com. March 23, 2015.

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• Evening bags should be just big enough for my phone, lipstick, house key, and credit card.

  Laura Wasser

  Keys, Phones, House

  "Fashion Workbook: Laura A. Wasser" by Maggie Bullock, www.elle.com. October 8, 2009.

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• I don't like thank you cards because I don't know what else to say. What do I put on the inside? See Front.

  Demetri Martin

  Knows, Fronts

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• Not for the first time in the history of the universe, someone for whom communication normally came as effortlessly as a dream was stuck for inspiration when faced with a few lines on the back of a card.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dream, Communication, Inspiration

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)”, p.107, Random House

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• It is said that in life we must play with the cards we are dealt, but too often I have kept those cards too close to my chest.

  Lawrence Fagg

  Play, Said, Chests

  Lawrence W. Fagg (2006). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.35, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• There's no better teacher for writing than reading... Get a library card. That's the best investment.

  Alisa Valdes

  Teacher, Reading, Writing

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• Like prospecting in the 19th century, reconnaissance of the asteroids would of necessity take place in an arena where trouble is likely and help is distant. Heroic stories of individual triumph and failure, set on landscapes never seen by humankind, are in the cards.

  Seth Shostak

  Landscape, Asteroids, Arena

  "Heroic Exploration: Well and Truly Dead?" by Seth Shostak, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2011.

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• Whenever you read interviews with actors, they always seem to be given three months to do something - get fat, get skinny, learn card tricks.

  Sam Riley

  Three, Actors, Months

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a very tactile learner, so I need analog index cards, moving them all about, trying out various sequences for the book's architecture.

  Joshua Mohr

  Moving, Book, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The more subtle thing is more speculative. The world is well past its long-term carrying capacity for human beings living a European, much less an American, lifestyle predicated on planned obsolescence. International economic growth is largely a matter of accelerated movement of materials from mines and forests to the dump. Instead of saving and buying decent furniture we can pass on to our children, we charge our credit cards for shaped heaps of sawdust and glue that fall apart in less than three or four years.

  Denis Hayes

  Children, Fall, Past

  "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

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• he economy favors throughput over quality and craftsmanship, and economists are terrified because the American savings rate has crept upward from about zero to almost five percent. But the mortgage crisis and the burgeoning credit card crisis are causing Americans to become wary of irresponsible debt.

  Denis Hayes

  Zero, Quality, Saving

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have a lot of different collections of cards at home. It's hard to say my favorite deck, but there is a deck called the medicine cards, and it's Native American animal cards.

  Valerie June

  Home, Native American, Animal

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You've got to make sure that you don't overstep your boundaries with teachers, especially when it's report card day or when you're about to take a test.

  Jordan Francis

  Teacher, Tests, Boundaries

  "Catching up with Camp Rock 2's Jordan "JMan" Francis!". Interview with Teen Mag, www.seventeen.com. September 2, 2010.

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• I love writing things down so pretty much every card I send to friends or family is an over enthusiastic essay. I've written some pretty good ones in my time.

  Rae Morris

  Writing, Enthusiastic, Essays

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• I'm a bad, inconsistent person, but at least I'm not a member of the Tea Party griping incoherently about too much government, but flashing my Medicare card every other day to a doctor because I'm 400 pounds overweight.

  George Singleton

  Party, Doctors, Government

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm not a fan of debt consolidation. In my experience, many people "clear" credit cards and other debt to get the one payment and never change what they need to change to prevent getting into debt again.

  Michelle Singletary

  People, Fans, Needs

  "Color of Money Live". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 28, 2016.

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• And also, as a consumer now, it's weird that when I used to go to a book signing I would leave with a stack of pamphlets people had made to show off their work, and now I just leave with business cards where people have the URL to their websites.

  Adrian Tomine

  Book, People, Used

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites. But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I'd read it while I ate my lunch. I'm also probably one of the few remaining holdouts who hasn't consented to making the e-book versions of all my work, which is annoying to some of my publishers.

  Adrian Tomine

  Book, Home, Hands

  Source: therumpus.net

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