My mum was methodical in making sure we did our homework perfectly. She would do outlines to help us. When we were younger, she used flash cards.
President Trump has a unique way of doing things different to his predecessors, but what I would say is that don’t underestimate his ability to take very intractable situations and shake the deck of cards and try and find a solution.
I have met virtually no one in the policing and security world who thinks ID cards are an essential part of what they need to do in the future.
When done correctly, gift and loyalty cards can improve your cash flow, acquire and retain customers, and increase your overall brand presence.
Direction has always been on the cards, and I love writing.
When you’re doing a film, you’re on a set and you have retakes and you have time to get it right. And on ‘SNL’ it’s just go, go, go. If you can’t read the cue cards or miss your mark, you’re just left to sort of screw up. So there’s a lot more pressure doing a live TV show.
My hacking was all about becoming the best at circumventing security. So when I was a fugitive, I worked systems administrator jobs to make money. I wasn’t stealing money or using other people’s credit cards. I was doing a 9-to-5 job.
I get the hypocrisy thing, but any human being is allowed to have a public and private face, and celebrities should have the same rights as regular people to decide what cards they lay down and what cards they hide.
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.
A prequel to ‘Baby’ was never on the cards, but when the movie was successful, we realized from the audience response to my character that they wanted to see more of me.
People who start habitually exercising tend on average to eat better. They also tend to use their credit cards less and procrastinate less.
To sign up to take credit cards 21 years ago, it was the same amount of paperwork as getting a commercial mortgage. It was very intense, it was burdensome, it was entirely unnecessary.
I love ‘House of Cards,’ I love ‘Bloodline,’ I love ‘Orange is the New Black,’ so I had written on my refrigerator that I was looking for ‘groundbreaking television on Netflix.’
My grandma spelled my name wrong until she died. Like literally, birthday cards, mail, everything.
At 9, I think I had really gotten into tennis. I liked writing short stories; I loved solving math problems. I was learning a little piano, and I was collecting Garbage Pail Kids cards.
‘Weary Willie’ is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He’s content to make out with what he’s got. He knows he’ll go no further.
Growing up, my parents did everything they knew how to do to support me. My dad was always kinda my roadie; he drove me from gig to gig. But I got my own gigs. I was this 12-year-old kid, shuffling business cards, calling people, telling them I wanted to play.
I had to play the cards that I was dealt to get better mentally, physically, and push myself to limits that I didn’t think I was capable of.
I got my first baseball cards as a four-year-old, the 1989 Topps set. I got every Topps set after that.
Given how well the cards have been dealt to someone like myself, I think there’s an inherent obligation to try to reach out and make a difference.
You can’t tell what’s aboard a container ship. We carried every kind of cargo, all of it on view: a police car, penicillin, Johnnie Walker Red, toilets, handguns, lumber, Ping-Pong balls, and IBM data cards.
My transactions are above board: I do not have money deposited in other accounts and have transparently declared all assets. My real wealth is, however, my experience as cofounder of Infosys and as Aadhar Chairman, which gave away 60,000 crore identity cards to people of India as promised.
Yes, there should be tough border security. Yes, there should be foolproof ID cards, with biometrics, for Social Security and employment purposes.
Baseball and its 162-game schedule are challenging enough, but try winning the world series of dugout poker with cards supplied by Royals owner David Glass, the Wal-Mart-trained billionaire.
I have a lovely light blue Kate Spade wallet. It has pockets for many credit cards, business cards, health insurance cards, and a Burke Williams card for when I want to go to the spa!
I always have at least 10 index cards with me every time I watch college football games on Saturdays.
I was never a big comic book fan. I was always more into the baseball cards.
I don’t like knowing about other people’s feelings. There is nothing more embarrassing. Just as when you play cards and you see your opponent’s hand. You are sure to lose.
That’s what brothers do. I expect a lot from him. We always work out together. We always do everything together. I know what he’s capable of doing. He knows what I’m capable of doing. When it doesn’t happen, we pull each other’s cards.
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.
If you’re going to just play with patience, you’re going to be at the mercy of the cards.
I love the characters in ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ and ‘House of Cards.’
If you play your cards right things are going to happen in the long run. In the short run, it is anybody’s guess.
You know, one of the ways we adapted to not being free was to think that our group identity was again, the way we were being black, and being down with the cards. That was the way we were going to get it. Unity was everything.
Question: Why does anyone bother to listen to economists anymore? The profession has become an embarrassment, and the most respected economists have shown themselves to have as much predictive power as a deck of tarot cards.
Films like ‘Bond’ fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there’s no money there for films to be made, it’s like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.
Obviously as a kid you collect hockey cards.
I start with a beat sheet, which is more of an abbreviated outline. It hits all the major plot points. From there, I move to note cards. But the most important part of my process is my inspiration board.
You can get in and out of credit cards in a hurry. Not so easy to get in and out of mortgages.
The WB never treated us well, so we didn’t expect a lot of farewell wishes and flowers or cards.
I think fighters for a long time, were afraid to pull out of fights for many reasons. Like sitting on the shelf for a long time due to not having as many fight cards back then. Feeling like a wuss, disappointing the boss and fans, or just needing the money.
Athletics weren’t really in the cards in my family – books, not body.
As more workers lose manufacturing jobs as companies cut back, some are being forced into lower-paying retail jobs. But they still have union cards in their wallets.
If money was being invented now, it wouldn’t be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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.
I’m a big baseball fan, and I love the Cards.
They expect a certain amount of leniency or mercy from me because I’m a woman, and if you’ve ever met my mother, you should know that’s not even in the cards. She’s much tougher than I am – she’s a retired schoolteacher, so she’s seen it all.
When members of a certain party concoct various devious schemes to suppress votes, purposely misinform potential voters, spread vile untrue filth about certain candidates, play the race, gender and religious cards, and literally tamper with vote tallies, then we are not a truly representative government!
The UFC are promoting a lot of cards and there are a lot of fights that people even don’t know that will happen. But Wanderlei Silva vs. Dan Henderson would sell very well.
There are no Hallmark cards that define the next chapter, or the value of a history together.
Fraud is common when you give away billions. Fraud related to Hurricane Katrina spending is estimated to top $2 billion. In addition, debit cards provided to hurricane victims were used to pay for Caribbean vacations, NFL tickets, Dom Perignon champagne, ‘Girls Gone Wild’ videos, and at least one sex change operation.
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.
I was a street guy. I mean, I grew up in an Italian neighborhood with mob guys around. Where I grew up, you gambled, you shot dice, you played cards, you went to the track. So the mob to me was not strange, it was not like I was an F.B.I. agent from Salt Lake City.
Directing a film in Hindi is definitely on the cards.
I can do one ‘Breaking Bad’ in a night, or one ‘Game of Thrones.’ But ‘House of Cards,’ I can really do three in a night. I get sucked in.
