Cards Quotes - Page 23

• A chart of numbers that would put an actuary to sleep can be made to dance if you put it on one side of a card and Bombo Rivera's picture on the other.

  Bill James

  Sleep, Numbers, Sides

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• When you go card dead its torture just sitting there.

  Doyle Brunson

  Sitting, Torture

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• You can't control the cards you're dealt, just how you play the hand.

  Randy Pausch

  Hands, Cards You're Dealt, Play

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• Why don't Republicans spend all their airtime attacking the media for lying about what Obama's amnesty does and what the Democrats are doing? It's hard to avoid concluding that Republicans aren't trying to make the right arguments. In fact, it kind of looks like they're intentionally throwing the fight on amnesty. If a Republican majority in both houses of Congress can't stop Obama from issuing illegal immigrants Social Security cards and years of back welfare payments, there is no reason to vote Republican ever again.

  Ann Coulter

  Lying, Fighting, Years

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• I would staple a green card to the diploma of anyone that graduates with a degree in the physical sciences or engineering in the U.S.

  John Doerr

  Engineering, Degrees, Green

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• I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we should not give up the game before all the cards have been played. The metaphor is deliberate; life is a gamble. Not to play is to foreclose any chance of winning. To play, to act, is to create at least a possibility of changing the world.

  Howard Zinn

  Giving Up, Winning, Games

  Howard Zinn (2013). “A Power Governments Cannot Suppress”, p.267, City Lights Books

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• So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent of a man holding up a card reading LAUGHTER to a studio audience.

  Miles Kington

  Laughter, Reading, Writing

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• I don't know about you, but I've saved cards that old high school flames wrote me as well as those that employees have written me over the years. The power of genuine, customized appreciation will never lose its value, even in a gloomy economy... in fact, it's probably what we're all thirsty for in this desert of a depression.

  Chip Conley

  Appreciation, School, Flames

  "The Best $73 I Ever Spent" by Chip Conley, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2009.

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• In a speech at the just-concluded G20 summit in London, President Obama urged Americans not to let their fears crimp their spending. It would be unwise, he argued, for Americans to let the fear of job loss, lack of savings, unpaid bills, credit card debt or student loans deter them from making major purchases. According to the president, 'we must spend now as an investment for the future'....instead of saving for the future, we must spend for the future.

  Peter Schiff

  Jobs, Loss, President

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• We are an indebted family going out for an expensive meal to celebrate getting approved foe a new credit card. It might feel good (at the time), but we're still simply delaying the inevitable.

  Peter Schiff

  Feel Good, Meals, Going Out

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• Did you hear about the woman who sent out 40,000 Valentine Cards doused in perfume and signed, "Guess Who?" She's a divorce lawyer.

  Robert Orben

  Valentine, Divorce, Lawyer

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• I believe that a lot of progress has been achieved to address gender inequality: We have moved from a time where women in the US could not apply for credit card without their husband's signature to a time where women are the owners of their businesses.

  Zainab Salbi

  Husband, Believe, Progress

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• And that first screening was overwhelming. You were there. People applauded when the title card comes in; there's a big "gasp moment" partway through the film. It couldn't have gone better, and it was very surreal.

  James Ponsoldt

  People, Titles, Gone

  Source: collider.com

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• I do think this is where television is going, and I think that it's awesome to be a part of a show like this because we are these pioneers into this new medium. And it's working. When you look at the success of House of Cards and Arrested Development, which I love, this is how people are watching television now. It's pretty cool to be a part of this whole thing.

  Laura Prepon

  Thinking, House Of Cards, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Credit cards have been extremely profitable to banks. They're profitable not from the fees they collect from the retailers that use the credit cards, that pays the bills, but the real profits come from the interest payments and the charges to users that are unexpected.

  Richard Thaler

  Real, Use, Credit

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Is there a market for somebody selling a credit card that helps people pay down their balances? I think the question is yes. But it would have to be sold by a bank that's really willing to invest in being a trusted partner with its consumers, because they will make less money on each consumer.

  Richard Thaler

  Thinking, People, Balance

  "Big Think Interview With Richard Thaler". bigthink.com. June 19, 2009.

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• If rather than setting the minimum balance as the lowest possible amount, so we keep people in debt for as long as possible, we raise the minimum payment and encourage people to pay off their credit cards, we're going to make less money, but we're going to have costumers that are more solvent.

  Richard Thaler

  Long, People, Balance

  "Big Think Interview With Richard Thaler". bigthink.com. June 19, 2009.

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• he card companies will often, as a courtesy, honor that credit card, but hit you with a penalty. And you keep swiping your card for $3 at Starbucks for your latté, and you're getting hit with a $25 penalty because it's over your credit limit.

  Richard Thaler

  Over You, Honor, Credit

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It would be much more consumer friendly for them to beep you when you swipe your card that says, uh-oh you're over your limit, are you sure you want to use that?

  Richard Thaler

  Over You, Friendly, Use

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Maybe you'll take the cash out. So a credit card company or a bank that goes into the business of saying we're going to be the broker, we're going to sell you a mortgage that you're going to be able to pay off, we're going to help you reduce your credit card debt, we're going to help you save for retirement, we're going to put you into mutual funds that have low fees rather than high fees.

  Richard Thaler

  Retirement, Credit, Debt

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I believe that I have really found the relationship between gravitation and electricity, assuming that the Miller experiments are based on a fundamental error. Otherwise, the whole relativity theory collapses like a house of cards.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Errors, House Of Cards

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• I'm constantly amazed that owners and managers of all businesses don't train their people to call the person who pays by credit card by name. It definitely makes the customer feel good and will be a factor in bringing them back to your place of business.

  Zig Ziglar

  Names, People, Feel Good

  "Zig On... Don't Miss This Opportunity" by Zig Ziglar on his web site, May 25, 2010.

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• I know I'm good at tennis. Other than that, everything else is a wild card. I'm a wild card.

  Venus Williams

  Tennis, Knows

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• I don't think I could live without a deck of cards in my hands.

  Omar Sharif

  Thinking, Hands, Deck

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• Joe Mantello is the uber director. I wrote him a card tonight saying basically, 'Will you adopt me?'

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Uber, Directors, Tonight

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