Cards Quotes - Page 6

• Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness.

  Ariel Dorfman

  Memories, Games, Play

  Ariel Dorfman (2012). “Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile”, p.9, Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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• When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor.

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• No matter what happens - never give up a hole....In tossing in your cards after a bad beginning you also undermine your whole game, because to quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast.

  Sam Snead

  Giving Up, Drinking, Golf

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• I did not want to turn to playing golf because golf is about as much exercise as shuffling cards.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Exercise, Golf

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”

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• I played so bad, I got a get-well card from the IRS.

  Johnny Miller

  Funny, Get Well, Golf

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• I used to collect hockey cards. It was like Vegas at my school. You'd go to school with your box of cards, and at recess and lunchtime there were all these games we'd play.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, School, Hockey

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• I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.

  Joe Garagiola

  Baseball, Stars, Gambling

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• That's why I really don't play cards or gamble. Because I'd crack.

  Joe Mantegna

  Play, Cracks, Gamer

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• These smugglers, many of them present in trafficking through my State of Arizona, create false Social Security cards, false green cards, visas and a variety of other fraudulent documents as an essential part of their smuggling activities.

  John Shadegg

  Essentials, Green, Smugglers

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• If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Christian, Baseball, Rome

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• 'Moonwalking with Einstein' refers to a memory device I used when I memorized a deck of playing cards at the U.S. Memory Championship. When I competed in 2006, I set a new U.S. record by memorizing a deck of cards in one minute and 40 seconds. That record has since fallen.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Records, Championship

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• Some memorizers arbitrarily associate each playing card with a familiar person or object, so that the king of clubs is represented by, say, Tony Danza. The grand masters associate each card with a person, an action, or an object so that every group of three cards can be converted into a sentence.

  Joshua Foer

  Kings, Groups, Three

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• The best memorizers in the world - who almost all hail from Europe - can memorize a pack of cards in less than a minute. A few have begun to approach the 30-second mark, considered the 'four-minute mile of memory.'

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Europe, World

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• That D.C. grand jury investigation of Abramoff can't go on forever. Eventually the lawyers at the Public Integrity Section will go to their bosses with some decisions about just who they want to indict. That's when Al Gonzales will have to show his cards.

  Josh Marshall

  Integrity, Decision, Boss

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• In a few years there will be only five kings in the world the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards.

  Farouk of Egypt

  Kings, Years, World

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• Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.

  Lara St. John

  Player, Orchestra, Green

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• I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system.

  Lawrence Wright

  Students, Graduates, Notes

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• She and my uncle were very sociable and would have a lot of people over at night to play cards or whatever. The high spot of those evenings was when we kids got dressed up to do a skit or something to amuse the guests. I loved it.

  Louise Fletcher

  Uncles, Kids, Night

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

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• What you've got to do is recognize that you don't control everything for a start, you've got to play the cards you're dealt, the hand of cards you're dealt, as best you can, and that's what I always seek to do.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Hands, Cards You're Dealt, Play

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• We don't need a nation that has national identity cards.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Identity, Needs, Nations

  "[Flashback interview] Retired Senator Malcolm Wallop: 'Frontier Freedom'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.ff.org. December 21, 2012.

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• You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Government, Identity, Roles

  "Frontier Freedom: An Interview with Malcolm Wallop". Interview with Rick Henderson, William H. Mellor , Ill, reason.com. November 1995.

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• Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money.

  Mario Lemieux

  Sports, Player, Guy

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• People ask whether I put the politics first, journalism first or the comedy first; it doesn't really matter. I'm just playing with the cards that I have been dealt because I really love doing what I do.

  Mark Thomas

  People, Matter, Firsts

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• A world without war is not in the cards.

  Martin Van Creveld

  War, World

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• I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends.

  Mary MacLane

  Strong, Real, Self

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler”, p.122, Petrarca Press

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