Being on food stamps can be demeaning. Cashiers know the difference between the new plastic SNAP cards and a credit card. Some food stamp recipients say some cashiers have made them feel uncomfortable and embarrassed.
My garage/office is strewn with Post-its, cards, folders, notebooks, yoga mats and multicoloured pens, all purchased in a quest to unlock a magic way of working that will ensure my ascension to next-level creativity.
It took me nine years to get through the fourth grade. When I got into television commercials, I had to take a crash course in reading. I was 32 years old, and I couldn’t read the cue cards.
What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one’s cards face up on the table?
It’s so amazing that you can give somebody like David Fincher ‘House of Cards,’ and he can do whatever he wants – Netflix doesn’t say, ‘Oh, you can’t do that,’ or, ‘We need a subplot here about this.’ It’s pretty neat that it is allowing the creatives to be creative.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
Look, nobody is ever exactly the same as anybody else. You’re handed the cards you are for a particular reason, so you follow that path and see where it takes you.
The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people’s obsession. I feel watched 90% of the time, but that is something I drew with the cards that I drew.
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Within a few months in 2008, household finances were crushed as asset values fell, millions of jobs were lost, countless credit cards were canceled, and thousands of homes were foreclosed on.
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Look at baseball, with its defensive shifts – outfielders looking at cards on the field much like a quarterback would. It’s possible that someday defensive backs will be playing with similar cards based on where receivers are lined up and what those receivers’ route-running strengths are. The possibilities are endless.
I have too many credit cards. You know what happened? Someone stole one and I didn’t notice. I noticed when I got that bill. Whoa! It was so much less! I’m letting him keep it. I’m saving money!
I pay my credit cards in full every month – as well as all my bills and mortgages.
I still have flash cards from when I was drawing plays when I was 10 years old.
We don’t have a problem killing off characters on ‘House of Cards.’
It’s surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.
Swipe fees have increased steadily since the introduction of debit cards 20 years ago, when there were no swipe fees at all. Merchants can’t negotiate or control them. They’ve tried, but they have no leverage against the big banks and issuers. So they get ignored.
I like to go hiking. I like to go rappelling, swimming, biking. I go boogie-boarding. I collect Hot Wheels. I collect glass. I collect coins. And I collect cards.
I don’t think marriage is in the cards for me. I think it’s an archaic institution.
I think magic, whether I’m holding my breath or shuffling a deck of cards, is pretty simple. It’s practice, it’s training, and it’s – It’s practice, it’s training and experimenting, while pushing through the pain to be the best that I can be.
It’s the moment I’ve been waiting for, fighting on the big cards like UFC 200.
Tintin comics evoke Bermuda, where my parents doled out comics for good behavior and my grandmother taught me how to shuffle cards.
High school and college students can show shelter residents how to fill out the forms to get their Social Security cards, driver’s licenses, and other documents needed for education and employment.
It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
The major gripe I heard was from people who made beautiful cards but couldn’t find envelopes to fit them. I realised that if I could provide a product that would make envelopes in any size and out of any paper, I could hit the jackpot.
I’m so disappointed in the frat parties at Columbia. I’m like an English boy going to an American college. I’m thinking cheerleaders, I’m thinking kegs. That’s not what’s on the cards.
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.
It wasn’t in the cards to work out in football.
Everybody is dealt a hand of cards. It was my choice to play them the way I played them.
President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards.
The wine I produce is not for keeping. It’s the wine you want when meeting friends for a game of cards.
It’s hard to be so mentally competitive and when you’re not competing you try to turn it off but it doesn’t work like that. I don’t think you can just turn it off, I think you still find ways to be competitive – if it’s playing a video game, if it’s playing cards.
Me and my brother growing up used to collect rookie and basketball cards, like MJ’s and LeBron’s. That’s what we used to collect, have a lot signed as well.
Often in fighting, you get dealt certain cards and that’s what you have to work with.
I was trying to create products to complement the pop-up blocker. All these people were giving me their credit cards. I figured I could sell them something else.
When I was a child, my December weekends were spent making cards, decorating the tree, hanging the wreath and preparing brandy butter and peppermint creams.
If I play my cards right, I could bring network wrestling back to TV. Unfortunately, to most people, wrestling is a laughingstock. But fortunately, I’m reaching people who otherwise wouldn’t watch it.
I’m amazed by how angry people get about new art, particularly new sculptures in their town. The people who hate new sculpture usually find their type of art on birthday cards, pictures of a vintage car going round a hairpin bend and suchlike.
I’m not that good at cards.
The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn’t in the cards, I guess.
I had one of those farcical bar mitzvahs where they spell out the words phonetically on index cards, and you don’t even know what you’re saying.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with feminist uplift. That’s how we got credit cards in our own name.
The whole process of getting cards printed is so cumbersome.
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.
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
We’ve all been there, where it seems like all the cards are stacked against you, and you can’t seem to do anything right. But you still have to say to yourself, ‘You know what? That’s not going to stop me. I still have to find a way.’
I love my journal as much as I love my phone. I find it to be a big part of my self-care to reflect on my day and write words that inspire me or paste business cards and pictures.
I’m not soppy-romantic. I don’t buy Valentine’s cards or any of that cheesy crap.
A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.
A world without war is not in the cards.
I graduated from high school in 1963. There were no computers, cell phones, Internet, credit cards, cassette tapes or cable TV.
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don’t get sick you’re missing half the fun.
I don’t have a wallet. I carry my driver’s license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
I never thought I’d make any money at all doing this business. Film was never even on the cards.
There are many ways to manipulate chip cards. For example, a number of years ago when American Express issued the first chip card, criminals would take a small hammer with a little device and bang the chip to destroy it without hurting the physical appearance of the card.
Magic: The Gathering is like Dungeons and Dragons if D&D was played with cards and didn’t take 18 weeks.
I can’t imagine I’ll be the new George Clooney. That’s not really on the cards.
A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren’t so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?
Generally, when I tell people I’m a painter, they ask me if I have a card: ‘Yes, we’d like this room in this color.’ I still might get cards that say ‘Mark Bradford. Painter.’
Being on the run wasn’t fun, but it was something I had to do. I was actually working in legitimate jobs. I wasn’t living on people’s credit cards. I was living like a character out of a movie. It was performance art.
