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• When I graduated from college in early 2010, I decided that I needed to create a calling card, some kind of business card that people can link to my name and face. So I did this 'Mad Men Theme Song...With a Twist' music video. I released it just as I moved to L.A.

  Allison Williams

  Song, College, Men

  "Allison Williams On 'Girls' (Her First Audition!)" by Irina Aleksander, www.elle.com. April 12, 2012.

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• Last year, Congress passed a law that directs the Federal Reserve to set limits on debit card swipe fees that are reasonable and proportional to the cost of processing those transactions. Like most Americans, I had no idea that swipe fees charged to American businesses are the highest in the world.

  Peter Welch

  Law, Ideas, Years

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• I collect Hot Wheels. I collect glass. I collect coins. And I collect cards.

  Nolan Gould

  Glasses, Hot, Coins

  "Nolan Gould: A Backstage Exclusive". Interview with Noah Laracy, www.backstage.com. October 29, 2009.

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• I accepted that a new kind of hate had emerged, silent and disciplined, a racism tempered by loyalty cards and PIN numbers. Shopping was now the model for all human behaviour, drained of emotion and anger.

  J. G. Ballard

  Loyalty, Hate, Shopping

  J. G. Ballard (2006). “Kingdom Come”, HarperCollins UK

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• I am as non-accepting of medical quackery and unscientific approaches as anybody else. I've grown up as a card-carrying scientist, and I know the power of science to answer questions, and for many questions I don't know of anything better than scientific approaches to answer them.

  Dean Ornish

  Answers, Medical, Scientist

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• Guess in my brain I have a figurative 'man card' that's got certain punches that need to be punched.

  Jason Babin

  Men, Brain, Needs

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• As a child, recognizing my difference from other kids, I went to the local public library to try to better understand my reality. Back then, many library card catalogues didn't even list 'homosexuality' as a topic.

  James McGreevey

  Children, Kids, Reality

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• With someone who holds nothing but trumps, it is impossible to play cards.

  Christian Friedrich Hebbel

  Play, Impossible, Trump

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• I've always been given respect because I'm kind of mannish, and I'm not a great beauty. I've never played the coquette card because I'm no good at it.

  Martha Wainwright

  Coquette, Kind, Given

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• Christmas is more than a time of music, merriment and mirth; it is a season of meditation, mangers and miracles. Christmas is more than a time of carols, cards and candy; it is a season of dedication and decision.

  William Arthur Ward

  Christmas, Dedication, Meditation

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• Someone has described the modern American as a person who drives a bank financed car over a bond financed highway on credit card gas to open a charge account at a department store so he can fill his savings and loan financed home with installment purchased furniture. may this also be a description of many modern professed Christians? And may this not be one reason why modern Christians have so little time to pray? Importunity combined with perfect faith in unconquerable!

  Paul Billheimer

  Christian, Prayer, Home

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• My plan is to bring back like the Bracero Program from 1944 that ran for 20 years where the Mexican government vets these people. I mean, they pay for it, and they get green cards, and they're actually legitimate. And then seal the border.

  Kinky Friedman

  Mean, Government, Years

  "Kinky Friedman Talks with Bill O'Reilly About Why He Wants to be Governor of Texas". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. March 15, 2005.

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• I am not an economic determinist. If I were, I would throw up my hands; I just would not bother. I think it's wrong to be an economic determinist. I think it's wrong to simply say, "Well, inevitably, if you're poor, you're going to get a lousy education; if you're lower-middle class, the cards are going to be stacked against you, and you'll probably never get anywhere".

  Robert Reich

  Thinking, Hands, Class

  "Robert Reich: Making people laugh about economic inequality". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. October 16, 2013.

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• I had never really been around cards.

  Jeremy Piven

  "The Cast of 'Smokin’ Aces' Gets Interviewed". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. January 22, 2007.

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• Your credit card, your inbox, your Hotmail.com are not particularly secure. We are being watched; it's just a part of life.

  Jamie Bell

  Inbox, Credit, Parts Of Life

  "Jamie Bell's History Lesson". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 9, 2014.

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• But to fight something, you really have to try to understand its motivations—particularly when the something you’re fighting holds most of the cards, the deck is stacked against you, and the whole gambling hall is on fire and filled with thugs.

  Greg Bear

  Motivation, Fighting, Thug

  Greg Bear (2011). “Hull Zero Three”, p.89, Hachette UK

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• All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

  James A. Michener

  Fall, Acceptance, Games

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• A man's idee in a card game is war

  Finley Peter Dunne

  War, Men, Games

  Finley Peter Dunne (1919). “Mr. Dooley on Making a Will and Other Necessary Evils ...”

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• In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Life, Play, Skills

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• Get dealt a set of cards in life, and just deal with them........no problem.

  Charles Kendall Adams

  Problem, Deals, No Problem

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• To thee, fair Freedom! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din: Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot, or humble inn.

  William Shenstone

  Art, Humble, Dice

  William Shenstone, David Mallet (1822). “The Poems of William Shenstone ...”, p.154

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• When you're sick, you present your medicare card, not your credit card.

  Jack Layton

  Health, Sick, Credit

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• Journalists don't need a get-out-of-jail-free card, ... Instead we should be given more access to information.

  Chris Powell

  Jail, Needs, Information

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• Many mornings I check out the news as soon as I wake up, because if it turns out that the world is coming to an end that day, I am going to eat the frosting off an entire carrot cake; just for a start. Then I will move onto vats of clam dip, pots of crime brûlée, nachos, M & M's etc. Then I will max out both my credit cards.

  Anne Lamott

  Morning, Moving, Future

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• Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Paper, Paint, Stamps

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