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• What I didn't do was pick one thing and keep saying it over and over again, so I could have gotten credit for it.

  Mario Cuomo

  Picks, One Thing

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• I wanted to be a jazz pianist, but I wasn't good enough. I got into city college because I didn't have the grades to get into university. I took acting because it was a way to get three credits. I just needed three credits and my friend told me to take acting because it was like gym - nobody fails you. I took it and that's literally how I got involved in acting.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Life, College, Destiny

  "Dustin Hoffman at Play in Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium". Press Conference, movieweb.com. November 19, 2007.

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• Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with a flick of a pen they will create enough to buy it back.

  Josiah Stamp

  Bankers, Banking, Earth

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• What man could afford to pay for all the things a wife does, when she's a cook, a mistress, a chauffeur, a nurse, a baby-sitter? But because of this, I feel women ought to have equal rights, equal Social Security, equal opportunities for education, an equal chance to establish credit.

  Betty Ford

  Baby, Opportunity, Men

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• Don't cut up your credit cards, the problem is not the cards, it's the lack of financial literacy of the person holding the cards and always make the best out of a bad situation

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Cutting, Cards, Financial

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• I don't want any production credit. I think producers are overrated. They're for people who, first of all, don't know anything about music or arranging and have no ear for their own doings. They can't tell a good solo from a bad solo, stuff like that.

  Tom Verlaine

  Thinking, People, Ears

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• Financial institutions are not being bailed out as a favor to them or their stockholders. In fact, stockholders have come out worse off after some bailouts. The real point is to avoid a major contraction of credit that could cause major downturns in output and employment, ruining millions of people, far beyond the financial institutions involved. If it was just a question of the financial institutions themselves, they could be left to sink or swim. But it is not.

  Thomas Sowell

  Real, People, Swim

  "A Political "Solution": Part II" by Thomas Sowell, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 23, 2008.

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• Bill Clinton, who, to his credit, has established a clear and consistent foreign policy, which is as follows: Whenever the president of the United States gets anywhere near any foreign head of state, living or dead, he gives that leader a big old hug. This has proven to be an effective way to get foreign leaders to do what we want: Many heads of state are willing to sign any random document that President Clinton thrusts in front of them, without reading it, just so he will stop embracing them.

  Dave Barry

  Reading, Giving, Leader

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.46, Ballantine Books

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• I don’t want to be an editor! I don’t want to direct; I’d be a horrible director. I don’t want to write - I have a “story by” credit on one film I did. And I don’t want to edit at all.

  Topher Grace

  Writing, Editors, Directors

  "Topher Grace’s ‘Star Wars’ Edits Explained: Actor Discusses Editing Three Prequels Into One Film". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2012.

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• When you're young, you get blamed for crimes that you didn't commit. When you are old, you get credit for virtues that you never had. I guess it all evens out in the end.

  I. F. Stone

  Virtue, Crime, Ends

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• I like to assume that since I drive a car and maintain a respectable credit rating and rarely murder anyone and bury them in the back garden unless they really deserve it, that the fact that I hear voices wont unduly disturb anyone.

  Robin McKinley

  Garden, Voice, Car

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• The credit card companies have put the loan sharks out of business.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Sharks, Cards, Loan

  "Debt: The next big American crisis?". "The Hansen Files", www.nbcnews.com. March 27, 2009.

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• You can have my credit card, baby, but keep your red hot fingers off of my heart, lady.

  George Michael

  Baby, Heart, Hot

  Song: Credit Card Baby

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• The sustainability revolution will be organic. It will arise from the visions, insights, experiments and actions of billions of people. The burden of making it happen is not on the shoulders of any one person or group. No one will get the credit, but everyone can contribute.

  Donella Meadows

  People, Vision, Groups

  Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis Meadows (2004). “Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update”, p.269, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• Surely in Judas' betrayal it will be no more right, because God both willed that his Son be delivered up, and delivered him up to death, to ascribe the guilt of the crime to God than to transfer the credit for redemption to Judas.

  John Calvin

  Betrayal, Son, Guilt

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• God's dream is that you have an abundance, that you be totally out of debt, pay your house off, pay your credit cards off, and have so much overflow that you can be a blessing to everyone around you!

  Joel Osteen

  Dream, Blessing, House

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• There's also consumer debt, the credit card debt that burdens many of the working families in America. Yes, we talk about national debt, and we're paying a lot down. But you're fixing to hear me tell you part of the remedy for people who have got a lot of credit card debt is to make sure people get some of their own money back.

  George W. Bush

  America, People, Cards

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• If you've ever made up something on the spot and made somebody laugh, you can credit Jonathan Winters with inspiration.

  Rob Reiner

  Inspiration, Winter, Laughing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We can think about how we reduce the pain in paying. So, for example, credit cards are wonderful mechanisms to reduce the pain of paying. If you go to a restaurant and you are paying cash, you would feel much worse than if you were paying with credit card. Why? You know the price, there's no surprise, but if you're paying cash, you feel a bit more guilt.

  Dan Ariely

  Pain, Thinking, Guilt

  "A conversation with Dan Ariely, Author of Predictably Irrational". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• If you want to spend more money in restaurants, use credit cards more than cash. If you want to spend less, use cash more than credit cards. But in general, we can think about how to use the pain of paying and how much of it do we want. And I think we have like a range. Credit cards have very little pain of paying, debit cards have a little bit more because you feel like today, at least it is coming out of your checking account, and cash has much more.

  Dan Ariely

  Pain, Thinking, Cards

  "A conversation with Dan Ariely, Author of Predictably Irrational". bigthink.com.

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• If you have loans, the first thing you want to do is say, "Okay, look I have a credit card, if I really need to borrow, I have this emergency money that I can get, but for now there is no reason for me to keep cash at zero percent interest rate and at the same time, pay all of this money out. So, I think people need to figure out quickly how to pay loans and how much cash they should really keep.

  Dan Ariely

  Zero, Thinking, People

  "A conversation with Dan Ariely, Author of Predictably Irrational". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• I think people are naturally good, I see it every day. Look at this restaurant. No one's causing anybody any trouble in here. We're all sitting, respecting each other's space, we're keeping our voices down, we're saying "please" and "thank you" - those are acts of generosity that we commit on a second by second basis that we don't give ourselves enough credit for. There's a lot of kindness in this world, we're just such vain creatures; our vanity can be used against us so easily. We're like dogs, hairless dogs.

  Torquil Campbell

  Dog, Kindness, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Very often on films, even without a producer credit, I'll be involved, very early on. I want to be there as the thing is taking shape.

  Clive Owen

  Shapes, Want, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't know if it will be my big comeback, but I think it is a statement - that I am a self-sustaining, vibrant, long-term artist, and I'm not going away! And if you don't give me credit, then the musical gods will!

  Rufus Wainwright

  Artist, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We tend to credit those who create an idea, not those who perfect it, forgetting that it is often only in the perfection of an idea that true progress occurs. Putting sixty-four transistors on a chip allowed people to dream of the future. Putting four million transistors on a chip actually gave them the future.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Dream, Ideas, People

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