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• Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards. Wherever I go I meet innovators of wind power equipment, solar energy operators.

  Thomas Friedman

  Stars, Keys, Rocks

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• Consular cards were not designed to be identification and no treaty recognizes them as such. Legal travelers, visitors and long-term residents carried passports, visas or green cards for that purpose.

  Elton Gallegly

  Long, Green, Visitors

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• Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.

  Bill Gates

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "One-on-One with Bill Gates". Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com. February 16, 2005.

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• I liked the banana-seat bikes with the high handlebars - maybe a card in the wheel could have been part of it.

  Stone Gossard

  Wheels, Bananas, Could Have Been

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• To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.

  Wavy Gravy

  People, Focus, Noses

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• In any finite region of space, matter can only arrange itself in a finite number of configurations, just as a deck of cards can be arranged in only finitely many different orders. If you shuffle the deck infinitely many times, the card orderings must necessarily repeat.

  Brian Greene

  Finite Number, Order, Numbers

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• I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!

  Bear Grylls

  Good Luck, Rare Occasion, Expeditions

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• I said, 'I'm going to the United States to study with Stella Adler and do movies because nobody here has done it and my passion is films.' But I came here and I didn't speak English, I didn't have a green card, I didn't know I had to have an agent, I couldn't drive, I was dyslexic.

  Salma Hayek

  Passion, Speak English, United States

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. September, 2003.

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• I don't want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and shelter, that alone is good. Forget aging and the fact that my butt is becoming a little more familiar with my knees than my tailbone. If you are six feet above ground it's a good day. So, give me more!

  Faith Hill

  Good Day, Feet, Giving

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• Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.

  Damien Hirst

  Credit, Hitting, Well Known

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• It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Christmas, Atheist, Holiday

  "Christmas with Christopher Hitchens". Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. December 20, 2007.

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• There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Morning, Old Friends, No Friends

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 2”, p.146, Reprint Services Corporation

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• In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.

  Alija Izetbegovic

  Destiny, Play, Trying

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• Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.

  Jesse Jackson

  Kids, Health, College

  Interview with Douglas Foster, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2000.

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• A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

  Jesse Jackson

  Famous Inspirational, Giving, Credit

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• People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.

  Jesse Jackson

  Home, Jail, People

  "Rev. Jackson opens up about son" by Katie Glueck, www.politico.com. August 17, 2012.

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• I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, "doesn't play well with others."

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Play, Lines, Wells

  "Portrait of the artist: Jon Bon Jovi, musician". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2010.

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• I'm not married, I frequently use my debit card to buy things that cost less than three dollars, and my bedroom is so untidy it looks like vandals ransacked the Anthropologie sale section. I'm kind of a mess.

  Mindy Kaling

  Dollars, Three, Looks

  "The Office's Mindy Kaling on Why You Need a Man, Not a Boy" by Mindy Kaling, www.glamour.com. October 3, 2011.

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• I say all the time I think there should be some courses in the regular schooling system that isn't, even like about credit, things that matter later in life. I learned the harder way: 'Look, I got a $500 credit card in the mail, let's go shopping!'

  Khloe Kardashian

  Thinking, Later In Life, Shopping

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• I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards, but that's not the case. Sure, my parents were generous; I got a nice car at 16, but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself.

  Kim Kardashian

  Nice, Cutting, Thinking

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• In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Husband, Father

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• Credit or debit cards, for starters, are nothing short of shoppers' Novocain. Even in the age of digital purchases and virtual money, we still attach a special value to dirty paper with pictures of presidents on it. Handing some of that to a cashier simply hurts more than handing over a little sliver of plastic.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Hurt, Dirty, Age

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• Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  America, United States, Credit

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• When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.

  Charles Kuralt

  Father, Hate, Boys

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• What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?

  Jacques Lacan

  Tables, Gestures, Faces

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