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• You stick a credit card in a machine, and you pay $3 or whatever it is to get cash - your own money.

  Bill Janklow

  Cards, Machines, Credit

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• Smart art galleries know it's not the words on paper but the emotion in the piece that makes clients pull out the credit card or check book. The gallery's number one concern is will this stuff sell? What your bio, artist's statement or resume articulates will be of no help if you don't make art that connects with buyers.

  Jack White

  Art, Book, Numbers

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• Climate change has a very high procrastination penalty that just grows with each passing year of inaction - rather like what happens if you don't pay off your credit card. But for climate, there is no such thing as a fresh start from bankruptcy.

  William H. Calvin

  Procrastination, Years, Climate

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• An American credit card is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.

  Edward Bellamy

  Europe, Gold, Cards

  "Looking Backward, 2000-1887". Book by by Edward Bellamy. Chapter 13, 1888.

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• All I need are chocolates, credit card, and stilettos.

  Maryse Ouellet

  Chocolate, Needs, Cards

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• People want what they want. And I guess that is a reason we have this big credit card problem and a lot of these foreclosures.

  Chris Rock

  People, Cards, Credit

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you are a kid in Beverly Hills, (I am not putting down people who live in Beverly Hills) if that kid knows private school and a credit card... you can't say the kid is taking life for granted. He is taking the life that was given to him.

  Henry Rollins

  School, Kids, People

  Source: www.sinicalmagazine.com

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• Humanity is living off its ecological credit card and can only do this by liquidating the planet's natural resources.

  Mathis Wackernagel

  Humanity, Cards, Credit

  "Eco-overdraft sends earth into the red" by Paul Sussman, www.cnn.com. October 11, 2006.

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• It was then I knew I'd had enough, Burned my credit card for fuel Headed out to where the pavement turns to sand With a one-way ticket to the land of truth And my suitcase in my hand

  Neil Young

  Truth, Hands, Land

  Song: Thrasher, Album: Rust Never Sleeps

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• Many mornings I check out the news as soon as I wake up, because if it turns out that the world is coming to an end that day, I am going to eat the frosting off an entire carrot cake; just for a start. Then I will move onto vats of clam dip, pots of crime brûlée, nachos, M & M's etc. Then I will max out both my credit cards.

  Anne Lamott

  Morning, Moving, Future

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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, Cards, Credit

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• A credit card sometimes adds to the high cost of living but more often to the cost of high living.

  Bob Phillips

  Cost Of Living, Add, Cards

  Bob Phillips (2015). “Phillips' Treasury of Humorous Quotations”, p.61, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out.

  Renny Harlin

  Strange Places, Cards, Credit

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.

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• Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Sympathy, Book, Names

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• Your credit card, your inbox, your Hotmail.com are not particularly secure. We are being watched; it's just a part of life.

  Jamie Bell

  Inbox, Cards, Credit

  "Jamie Bell's History Lesson". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 9, 2014.

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• This is the national equivalent of having no savings, your credit card maxed out, you didn't renew your insurance, and now your house has burned down. The only way we can start to solve this is rolling back the tax cuts for the rich, which would save about $70 billion.

  Diana DeGette

  Cutting, House, Saving

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• The credit card business is a success story and that's where Citigroup has put most of its efforts so far. Now Citigroup wants to extend the cooperation and success to more areas.

  Zhang Xi

  Effort, Cards, Stories

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• We can't exactly figure out why, but our customers have no fears of using their checking account, while credit cards are still a problem. I'm assuming checks have been around longer, and are more trusted, while credit cards have a sort of stigma attached to them.

  Tim Stevens

  Cards, Credit, Assuming

  "Shopping online without plastic" by Jason Krause, www.cnn.com. September 10, 1998.

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• I stupidly memorize my credit card and use it about thrice weekly for online shopping. The only reason I don't bankrupt myself is that I return about 75% of what I buy.

  Mindy Kaling

  Shopping, Return, Cards

  "The Office's Mindy Kaling Dishes On Fashion, Beauty, And Hollywood!". Interview with Kate Mulling, www.refinery29.com. October 13, 2011.

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• If the ingredients for happiness are not within a person, no material success or entertainment or platinum credit cards can make that person smile.

  Og Mandino

  Cards, Credit, Ingredients

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.123, Bantam

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• If the only way you can build an emergency fund is to pay the minimum due on your credit card, that is what you need to do.

  Suze Orman

  Needs, Cards, Credit

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• There are new gods growing in America, clinging to growing knots of belief: gods of credit card and freeway, of Internet and telephone, of radio and hospital and television, gods of plastic and of beeper and of neon. Proud gods, fat and foolish creatures, puffed up with their own newness and importance. "They are aware of us, they fear us, and they hate us," said Odin. "You are fooling yourselves if you believe otherwise.

  Neil Gaiman

  Hate, Believe, Odin

  Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• Oh, yes! Fill the churches with dirty thoughts! Introduce honesty to the White House! Write letters in dead languages to people you've never met! Paint filthy words on the foreheads of children! Burn your credit cards and wear high heels! Asylum doors stand open! Fill the suburbs with murder and rape! Divine madness! Let there be ecstasy, ecstasy in the streets! Laugh and the world laughs with you!

  Grant Morrison

  Children, Honesty, Dirty

  "Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth". Comic book by Grant Morrison, 1989.

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• The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony columns and commercials for soap, income tax and cheap restaurants, magazines and credit cards and streetlights and computers... 'It is escapism, true,' he said, aloud. 'But is not the highest impulse in mankind the urge toward freedom, the drive to escape?

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Agony, Car

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• Jonah spoke what everyone was thinking. "Wouldn't it be Twilight Zone if the door was open, too?" Hamilton tried the knob. It didn't budge. Ian stepped forward and examined the lock. "Natalie's diary has better security than this." He produced a credit card and slipped it between the latch and the jamb. There was a click, and the door swung wide.

  Gordon Korman

  Twilight, Thinking, Doors

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