Credit Quotes - Page 15

• Everything I am came from my parents. I don't take that much credit for who I am and what I am.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Who I Am, Parent

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• I'm not about to take credit for something I didn't do. I did not shoot - not a round, nothing. I went down praying to my knees - that's the last thing I remember.

  Jessica Lynch

  "Jessica Lynch Condemns Pentagon". news.bbc.co.uk. November 07, 2003.

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• A credit default swap was confusing mainly because it wasn't really a swap at all. It was an insurance policy, typically on a corporate bond, with semiannual premium payments and a fixed term.

  Michael Lewis

  Confusing, Default, Fixed

  Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.46, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer.

  Bill Keller

  Thinking, Media, Pioneers

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. June 8, 2011.

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• So easy are men to be drawn to believe any thing, from such men as have gotten credit with them; and can with gentleness and dexterity take hold of their fear and ignorance.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Believe, Ignorance, Men

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.145

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• You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.

  Pat Paulsen

  Needs, Lasts, Checks

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• When I did Yoda, me and three other people worked our asses off, and I was sweating every single day, it was tough as hell. Now that it's CGI, 24 people work on Yoda, and I get all the credit -- I do nothing.

  Frank Oz

  People, Three, Tough

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 16, 2007.

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• Certain management policies-stretching of credit resources, for example-may lead to great progress in good conditions; but, like the Grand Prix car in comparison with the Land Rover, they may not be robust enough to survive when the going gets tough.

  Anthony Stafford Beer

  Land, Car, Progress

  "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 88), 1968.

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• Las Vegas is perhaps the most color-blind, class-free place in America. As long as your cash or credit line holds out, no one gives a damn about your race, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, address, family lineage, voter registration or even your criminal arrest record. Money is the great leveler.

  Marc Cooper

  Color, Class, America

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• We underestimate teenagers at our peril. Even the dismissive thing out on the street--look at what they're wearing. Then we'll hear stories about how a toddler fell on the tracks, and it's often a teenager who comes to the rescue and walks away because he or she doesn't want any credit. I recognize it because I've written books for teenagers--it's basically that they feel things more than adults do. They want things more than you think. They want things with greater depth than you think they do. Teenagers have got a lot of soul that adults have forgotten they have within themselves.

  Markus Zusak

  Teenager, Book, Thinking

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• I've written so many things over the years that I don't want to go back to being just a scriptwriter. I'm in what I consider to be the enviable position of all I have to do is come up with the idea and write an outline that makes it seem like it's a viable idea that will interest people, and then other people write the scripts -- and I become the executive producer or the producer, depending on how much involvement I have, and I get a creative credit and then move on to the next project.

  Stan Lee

  Moving, Writing, Years

  "Nuff Said - An Interview With Stan Lee". Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. April 30, 2002.

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• My wife lost all her credit cards, but I'm not going to report it. Whoever found them spends less than she does!

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Wife

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• I'm a pop enigma. I live and breathe every element in life. I rock a bespoke suit and I go to Harold's for fried chicken. It's all these things at once, because, as a taste maker, I find the best of everything. There's certain things that black people are the best at and certain things that white people are the best at. Whatever we as black people are the best at, I'ma go get that. Like, on Christmas I don't want any food that tastes white. And when I go to purchase a house, I don't want my credit to look black.

  Kanye West

  Rocks, White, People

  "Entertainer of the Year: Kanye West". Interview with John Mcalley, www.spin.com. December 21, 2007.

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• Over the last 30 odd years, Democrats have moved to the right and the right has moved into the mental hospital. So what we have is one perfectly good party for hedge fund managers, credit card companies, banks, defense contractors, big agriculture and the pharmaceutical lobby... That's the Democrats. And they sit across the aisle from a small group of religious lunatics, flat-earthers and civil war re-enactors who mostly communicate by AM radio and call themselves the Republicans and who actually worry that Obama is a socialist. Socialist? He's not even a liberal.

  Bill Maher

  Religious, War, Party

  "Real Time with Bill Maher".

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• Certainly people are always very envious of me. When I join a new theater company, the other actors look down the program, see my Return of the Jedi credit and say, 'Oh, you were part of Star Wars.' I smile and say, 'Yes, but only for twenty-six and a half seconds.'

  Caroline Blakiston

  Stars, War, People

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• Unless we have a Central Bank with adequate control of credit resources, this country is going to undergo the most severe and far reaching money panic in its history.

  Jacob Schiff

  Country, Adequate, Panic

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• I do believe CDSs [credit default swaps] have been miscast, much as poor workmen tend to blame their tools.

  Blythe Masters

  Believe, Tools, Blame

  "The woman who built financial 'weapon of mass destruction'" by David Teather, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

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

  Maryse Ouellet

  Chocolate, Needs, Cards

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• I don't even know what that means. People who get credit have to get it from somewhere. Does a credit bubble mean that people save too much during that period? I don't know what a credit bubble means. I don't even know what a bubble means. These words have become popular. I don't think they have any meaning.

  Eugene Fama

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Interview with John Cassidy, www.newyorker.com. January 13, 2010.

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• Forget the credit, they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don't get paid even one-third of what male actors get. It's not so much about the money, but it's about (being a) woman.

  Kangana Ranaut

  Males, Actors, Forget

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• In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

  Angela Carter

  Order, Miracle, Age

  Angela Carter (1984). “Nights at the circus”, Vintage

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• There are some who maintain that trade will regulate itself, and it is not to be benefited by the encouragements or restraints of government. Such persons will imagine that there is no need of a common directing power. This is one of those wild speculative paradoxes, which have grown into credit among us, contrary to the uniform practice and sense of the most enlightened nations.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Encouragement, Government, Practice

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1875). “The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States : a Collection of Essays”, p.154

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• For myself the delay [in assuming the office of the President] may be compared with a reprieve; for in confidence I assure you, with the world it would obtain little credit that my movements to the chair of Government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution: so unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties, without that competency of political skill, abilities and inclination which is necessary to manage the helm.

  George Washington

  Ocean, Government, Skills

  Comment to General Henry Knox on the delay in assuming office, March 1789.

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• As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit.

  George Washington

  Government Debt, Important, Cherish

  George Washington, John Jay, Jared Sparks (1850). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America”, p.36, New York : J. Wiley

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• Sham Harga had run a successful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease, and burnt crunchy bits.

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, Successful, Years

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