Cards Quotes - Page 40

• Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country.

  James Woods

  Running, Country, Kids

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• Life is a game of whist. From unseen sources The cards are shuffled, and the hands are dealt. I do not like the way the cards are shuffled, But yet I like the game and want to play.

  Eugene Fitch Ware

  Life, Hands, Games

  Eugene Fitch Ware (1899). “Some of the Rhymes of Ironquill [pseud.]: (A Book of Moods.) ...”

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• Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads.

  John Grisham

  Country, Book, Credit

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• I never thought I didn't have a card to play.

  Jim Lovell

  Persistence, Play

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• I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.

  Sara Blakely

  Rip, Cutting, Feet

  “The woman in control of America's bottom” by Louise France, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2008.

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• I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job and is trying to figure out how her local bank can change the terms on her credit card, and I heard from a physicist at a major research university who wants to explain a better theory of financial stress tests.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Jobs, Stress, People

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• True virtue would never liken its rewards to points on a loyalty card, not because it is its own reward, but because it is not something we should practice to accrue future benefits.

  Julian Baggini

  Loyalty, Practice, Benefits

  "Goodies behaving badly" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2010.

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• Documenting trips makes them that much richer. I stick in train tickets and business cards from restaurants. It makes the whole experience poetic, describing the sights, smells and sounds around me. It means I can relive the holiday years later.

  Hayley Atwell

  Holiday, Mean, Sight

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• I don't shop online. I'm always scared to put my credit card on the Internet!

  Kristin Cavallari

  Credit, Scared, Internet

  "Kristin Cavallari: Life After The Hills". Interview, www.seventeen.com. May 23, 2011.

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• I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.

  Harry Anderson

  Magic, Want, Settling

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America.

  Dennis Cardoza

  Children, America, President

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• Theft annoys me more than anything else. The purloining of effects from another magician. Some people think it's massive to steal the secrets of nuclear reactors, but to steal a card move is trivial. They're wrong.

  Ricky Jay

  Moving, Thinking, People

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• I suppose that if I could only do one thing, a solid card effect would be pretty high on the list. That's the root of it all, sleight-of-hand. It's certainly the thing I feel most comfortable with.

  Ricky Jay

  Hands, Roots, Lists

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. August 12, 1998.

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• Twitter was around communication and visualizing what was happening in the world in real-time. Square was allowing everyone to accept the form of payment people have in their pocket today, which is a credit card.

  Jack Dorsey

  Real, Communication, Squares

  Interview with Charlie Rose, charlierose.com. January 10, 2011.

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• I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period.

  Illeana Douglas

  Cowboy, Vintage, Dresses

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

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• When you're 23, 24 years old and somebody's given you a credit card and jets and limos and you don't have to pay the bill when it comes in - that's a pretty nice deal.

  Jerry Doyle

  Nice, Years, Limos

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. November 25, 2002.

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• My first job, 9 years old, part-time, was selling Christmas cards door-to-door. Ten years old, my brother and I had paper routes. We delivered a morning paper called the 'L.A. Examiner.' Get up at 4 o'clock, fold your papers, deliver them and get ready for school.

  John Paul DeJoria

  Morning, Brother, Jobs

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• I'm a neurotic Jew who doesn't want loans. I can't even carry a balance on my credit card without having a nervous breakdown.

  Duff Goldman

  Balance, Credit, Want

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• When I turned fifteen, I remember my father gave me a credit card which I was allowed to use for two things: emergencies and books.

  Ann Brashares

  Father, Book, Two

  The ABC NEWS Interview, abcnews.go.com.

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• They know your name, address, telephone number, credit card numbers, who ELSE is driving the car "for insurance", ... your driver's license number. In the state of Massachusetts, this is the same number as that used for Social Security, unless you object to such use. In THAT case, you are ASSIGNED a number and you reside forever more on the list of "weird people who don't give out their Social Security Number in Massachusetts."

  Arthur Miller

  Life, Names, Numbers

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• I got Mary pregnant and man that's all she wrote. And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a factory coat.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Reality, Men, Coats

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• The cards are no good that your are holding unless you're from another world.

  Bob Dylan

  World, Outer Space, Another World

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• We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee, we don't take trips on LSD. We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street, we like living right and free.

  Merle Haggard

  Marijuana, Living Right, Alcohol

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• Well, they'll bark you down like carneys, sell you Christmas cards in June.

  Tom Waits

  Art, Media, June

  Song: Small Change, Album: Small Change

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• I don't need your organization, I've moved your mountains and I've marked you cards, but Eden is burning. You better get ready for elimination or else your hearts must have the courage of the changing of the guard.

  Bob Dylan

  Religious, Heart, Eden

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