Cards Quotes - Page 28

• I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election.

  David Byrne

  Green, Election, Vote

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• The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers pay 97 per cent of the taxes. By most people's standards, that's already fair. The President is playing the class warfare card because he knows that a lot of people may never hear that particular fact. But it's a fact.

  Herman Cain

  Class, People, Giving

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• You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.

  Adam Carolla

  Use, Credit, Realizing

  "QA: Adam Carolla talks bad jobs, worse parents and 'horrible' network execs in new book". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. June 20, 2012.

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• I am not a good cue card reader.

  Adam Carolla

  Reader

  Interview with Ariel Adams, www.askmen.com. November 3, 2010.

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• My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'.

  Jim Carrey

  Firsts, Students, Said

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• I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards.

  Graydon Carter

  Sports, Men, Games

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• When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.

  Camilo Jose Cela

  Debt, Things To Do, Best Things

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• Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.

  Chris Chocola

  Agency, Government, Years

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• I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Mother, Art, Writing

  FaceBook post by Sandra Cisneros from Oct 15, 2011

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• Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.

  Gail Collins

  Kings, Husband, School

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• There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they keep shelling out money on their education loans. If the economy is looking for a new generation of home-buyers, I can't imagine they'll get it from these folks.

  Gail Collins

  Running, Home, Careers

  "The Value of College". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 25, 2012.

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• Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

  Cyril Connolly

  Memories, Literature, Authority

  "Readings" by Michael Dirda, www.washingtonpost.com. March 7, 1999.

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• I believe that filmmaking - as, probably, is everything - is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and whatever else you've got. So, each time I make a movie, I give it everything I have. I think everyone should, and I think everyone should do everything they do that way.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Believe, Thinking, Games

  "What It Takes to Make a Great Movie" by Richard Brody, www.newyorker.com.

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• Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Sex, Calling, Workplace

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• A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?

  Wes Craven

  Nice, Monsters, Doe

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• Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.

  Ray Dalio

  Running, Baseball, Home

  "Ray Dalio's Bridgewater Hedge Fund Has A Brand New iPad App" by Julia La Roche, www.businessinsider.com. June 14, 2012.

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• You get a timeless cool card in New York.

  Vin Diesel

  New York, Timeless, Diesel

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• I'm not a Buddhist, or a card-carrying member of any religion.

  Matt Dillon

  Buddhist, Members

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• I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Hands, Clerks, Bookstores

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• I use debit cards for everyday purchases, as I don't believe in credit cards. But this has caused problems, especially with American touring, because I refuse to have a credit card - and in America you can't pay for anything on a debit card.

  Paloma Faith

  Believe, America, Everyday

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• Rather than spend my life on data entry and typing, I also take photos on my iPhone of business cards, wine labels, menus, or anything I want to have searchable on-the-run.

  Tim Ferriss

  Running, Wine, Data

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• When I started on 'Saturday Night Live,' I had the choice of wearing contact lenses, which I had never worn before, or glasses, in order to be able to read the cue cards.

  Tina Fey

  Night, Glasses, Order

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• I have yet to see someone attack Obama over his report card. A lot of people I talk to from both sides of the fence are like, 'Well, what about this economy? What about these incidents?' There are still no answers except time, but time is the answer for everything.

  Lupe Fiasco

  People, Answers, Sides

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• To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour, the precise order of 10 shuffled decks of playing cards in the same amount of time, and one shuffled deck in less than two minutes. There are 36 grand masters of memory in the world.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Order, Two

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• Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.

  Thomas Friedman

  Stars, Keys, Rocks

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