Cards Quotes - Page 15

• Funniness is the wild card in the pack.

  Penelope Gilliatt

  Humor, Funniness, Packs

  Penelope Gilliatt (1990). “To wit: skin and bones of comedy”, Scribner

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• The risk of a business being hit by a low probability, high impact event is far higher than most boards realize because the number of potential wild cards is so great.

  Patrick Dixon

  Impact, Numbers, Risk

  "Futurewise". Book by David Perkins, 1998.

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• Only losers and amateurs blame the cards. After all, cards don't care; they don't take sides, and they have no memory. They are blind justice holding her scales, and in the long run they'll tip evenly for the novice and the skilled alike.

  Lou Krieger

  Running, Memories, Long

  Lou Krieger (1999). “More Hold'em Excellence: A Winner for Life”, p.3, ConJelCo LLC

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• Consumers who are thinking of opening one of these no-limit credit cards may want to think how deeply their scores will be affected.

  Craig Watts

  Thinking, Credit, May

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• In some ways, they've added one more card to their playing hand.

  Craig Watts

  Hands, Way

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• This is the worst time to miss a bill. Pay down any large credit card or other large revolving accounts if you can, because high balances will hurt your credit rating. And avoid opening any other accounts before the loan you're pursuing is closed.

  Craig Watts

  Hurt, Missing, Balance

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• I can't imagine I'll be the new George Clooney. That's not really in the cards.

  Peter Capaldi

  Imagine, I Can

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

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• Sony is a clear leader in the digital camera and camcorder categories. As Sony continues to develop next-generation video and still image capture technologies, the demand for high speed, large capacity, small form factor memory cards will grow as well.

  Bill Vaughan

  Memories, Technology, Leader

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• A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.

  Alexander Pope

  Age, Youth, Old Age

  'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To a Lady' (1735) l. 241

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• Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. Its not really anything; its just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Determination, Player, People

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• I've been doing magic since I was five years old, and when I was trying to get acting gigs, I found I could make a good living at it. It's great to kind of shake the cobwebs off and get the feeling of a live audience again. I love close-up magic, the card stuff, the coin stuff, the really up-close David Blaine stuff.

  Steve Valentine

  Years, Feelings, Magic

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• Credit card interest payments are the dumbest money of all.

  Hill Harper

  Credit, Payment, Interest

  Hill Harper (2011). “The Wealth Cure: Putting Money in Its Place”, p.60, Penguin

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• My favorite TV shows are Orange Is the New Black, House of Cards, Modern Family, and Veep.

  Danai Gurira

  House Of Cards, Tv Shows, Orange

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• It's a simple thing he [Frank Daniel] taught me. If you want to make a feature film, you get ideas for 70 scenes. Put them on 3-by-5 cards. As soon as you have 70, you have a feature film.

  David Lynch

  Simple, Ideas, Want

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• My first job when I got my equity card was acting in 14 plays back-to-back. Playing that many roles, you look for ways of differentiating the characters physically, which goes hand in hand with understanding them psychologically.

  Andy Serkis

  Jobs, Character, Hands

  "Q&A: King of Mo-Cap Andy Serkis on Digital Acting and Gollum’s Oscar Diss". Interview with Steve Silberman, www.wired.com. September 14, 2007.

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• Some of my earliest political feelings were based on the anti-Japanese bubblegum cards I got. There were also Spanish Civil War bubblegum cards. Awful.

  Ed Asner

  War, Political, Feelings

  "Ed Asner on crotchety roles from Lou Grant to Up". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 3, 2012.

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• Let everyone witness how many different cards fortune has up her sleeve when she wants to ruin a man.

  Benvenuto Cellini

  Men, Different, Want

  Benvenuto Cellini (1956). “The Autobiography”

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• The wine I produce is not for keeping. Its the wine you want when meeting friends for a game of cards.

  Gerard Depardieu

  Wine, Games, Want

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• I got my equity card, found my agent, and then I got a part on 'Gilmore Girls.' That turned into a job that kept giving - they wrote more for me.

  Todd Lowe

  Girl, Jobs, Giving

  "Of Barbecue and Vampires". Interview with R.U. Steinberg, www.austinchronicle.com. June 13, 2013.

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• I very rarely use a credit card, but I do if I know I have big bills coming and I need to stagger payment.

  Andrea McLean

  Needs, Use, Credit

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• Enlightenment writer and philosopher Voltaire likened life to a game of cards. Players must accept the cards dealt to them. However, once they have those cards in hand, they alone choose how they will play them. They decide what risks and actions to take.

  John C. Maxwell

  Player, Hands, Games

  John C. Maxwell (2006). “The Difference Maker: Making Your Attitude Your Greatest Asset”, p.8, Thomas Nelson

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• I worry that the Senate is working to consider a series of little-noticed provisions in comprehensive immigration reform that may provide a pathway to a national ID card for all individuals present in the United States - citizens and noncitizens.

  Rand Paul

  Worry, Pathways, Immigration

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• Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Snakes, Long, Ems

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• For too long, tricks and traps in mortgages, credit cards, and other financial transactions have stripped wealth from working families.

  Jeff Merkley

  Long, Credit, Financial

  "Elizabeth Warren Is the Right Person for the Job" by Sen. Jeff Merkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 14, 2010.

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• Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.

  Paul Theroux

  Good Night, Sleep, Player

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Great Railway Bazaar”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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