I’ve repeatedly seen unscrupulous lenders use every con in the book to charm and lie to homeowners. Lenders actually paid brokers a premium to put people in higher-priced loans with toxic features, such as adjustable rates and prepayment penalties.
The #NeverTrump crowd is running out of steam – and time. All of its attacks – that he’s as liberal as Hillary Clinton, anti-immigrant, or a con man who will say anything to be elected – have failed.
Try and spread a lot of love and affection around the world. The most important thing is not to ‘con’ the public. Be real.
I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
My father was a good man, but he was a con man. He was a wanderer, nomadic.
My brain knows best-before dates are a con; my panicky gut treats them like a nuclear countdown.
I love Comic Con.
If I wanted to lay down a baby con, I could say I was the product of a broken home. But I’d only be bum-rapping my parents.
Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation.
I get to act out two roles on ‘The Legend of the Blue Sea,’ including one as a con man, and so I’ll be able to show many diverse sides to me.
I can go to a movie theater and watch a movie I was in with an audience… but with television, the opportunity to meet the fans at Comic Con or any other situation, it’s a chance to enter that circle; it’s that sharing.
The blessing that this film business has given me is that when I walk into a school I automatically have everyone’s attention. They want to hear what the guy from ‘Con Air’ and ‘Desperado’ has to say.
The con movie is a little bit different where maybe we tell you what we’re going to do but it never goes down the way you expect because there’s so much double-crossing and cheats and lies going on along the whole way.
I want to star in an action-comedy, like ‘The Rock’ or ‘Con Air.’ Those are the movies I wanted to star in since I was a kid.
You name the TV psychic – they’re con men.
I love L.A. – don’t get me wrong. But I miss everything about New York. I don’t eat cheese, but I miss the smell of pizza in the city. I’m a really big fan of Latino food. I want to go back home and have some good arroz con pollo.
Integration is the biggest con job ever pulled on any group of people, any nationality in the world. It was a plot by white liberals to gain black political power for themselves and their wild ideas, and for a few black bourgeoisie who were paid to exercise leverage as black spokesmen.
I think anyone who’s ever gone through adolescence and wanted something from their parents knows the basic tenets of a con.
I think musical theater fans – obsessive fans – are very much like Comic Con fans in our personalities. We’re very possessive, and we’re very obsessive, and we’re very critical. So don’t screw with our stuff.
My mother was a single mom whose days were spent as a customer service rep at Con Edison in downtown Brooklyn.
They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.
I love card games, and I’ve always loved board games and stuff like that as a kid, and I think it’s that part of your brain that’s engaged in con movies. It’s like this ‘Who’s outsmarting whom?’
For the people who are offended about the fact that we have a bunch of criminals and criminal enablers and buffoons and scheisters and con men and frauds and real estate frauds running our country and our government, they like to hear that they’re not the only ones that feel that way.
I’ve been in fandom for a really long time. Back in the day, you had to go to a con to engage in fandom, and that was really the only way.
In the 80s, mum used to make a beautiful beef in red wine sauce, which I thought very exotic. And an incredible chilli con carne, with baked beans so it wasn’t too spicy for us. Later, when I asked for the recipes, she said: ‘I don’t know – they were Colman’s or Schwartz’s packet mixes.’ It completely ruined it for me.
The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that’s a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on.
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