“In fact, someone was telling me that Gladiator was the one film where Ridley Scott didn't take a producer's credit. And it won. But this guy changed the industry twice; with Aliens which was a whole new way of looking at things and Blade Runner that was also a whole new way of looking at things.” WayWholeFactsFilmGuyChangedIndustryCreditProducersAliensNew WaysRunnersThis GuyBladesBlade Runner Author:Denzel Washington
“I think at the end of the day she [Rose from "Fences"] is a strong woman in the truest sense of the word. I think all of that is in the narrative; it's already there. The hope is there; the playfulness is there; it's there. I wish I could take credit for it, but it's there.” ThinkingEndsStrongWishRoseCreditNarrativeThe End Of The DayStrong WomenFenceTruestPlayfulness Author:Viola Davis
“I had no credit cards. I had no checks. I was cash only until I was probably 30 years old.” YearsCreditChecksCardsCashCredit Card Author:Bruce Springsteen
“On my very first show, my partners in it, Oprah Winfrey and her network, and studio, Warner Horizon, who doesn't get enough credit, said, "Lady, we're going to let you call the shots the way you want to."” WayWantFirstsSaidEnoughShowsShotsStudiosCreditPartnersHorizon Author:Ava DuVernay
“[Carrie Fisher] could talk about issues that very few people could. She could make her bipolar disorder both real and entertaining. Carrie deserves a lot of credit for giving voice to traumas that few people feel comfortable talking about.” PeopleGivingFeelsRealVoiceTalkingIssuesComfortableDeserveTraumaCreditCarrieDisorderEntertainingBipolarBipolar DisorderGiving Voice Author:Tony Taccone
“He - A.J.[Muste] never got much credit, never got much attention. For example, I wrote a biography of him and nobody ever heard of it.” AttentionHeardExampleCreditBiographies Author:Nat Hentoff
“Clay Felker was then - he had - to his credit, he had created New York Magazine, which was the first of the city magazines that covered the city and gave all kinds of advice and all that sort of stuff. And there were copies all over the country by the time he left. He had, however, a view of journalism that was very much, I must say, like Tina Brown's at The New Yorker. You hit 'em hard, fast, give 'em something to talk about the day after the paper comes out, as contrasted with William Shawn, who gave them something to talk about two or three years from then.” GivingYearsFirstsKindTwoCountryHardThreeLeftStuffViewsCitiesAdviceNew YorkPaperCreditAll KindsMagazinesJournalismBrownEmsCopiesCoveredThree YearsClayNew Yorkers Author:Nat Hentoff
“We already have plenty of fundamentalism and fundamental sects like for instance Rabbi Schneerson and Chabad Lubavitch. They feel more secure because they are in the warm, caring/sharing community. This is the difference between community (Gemeinschaft) and what Ferdinand Tönnies called Gesellschaft: a kind of setting in which you have no rights to do anything unless you pay for it, and no right to get anything unless you prove that you are 'credit worthy'. In a Gemeinschaft, however, you have a place at the table guaranteed whatever happens.” FeelsKindHappensCommunityDifferencesPayRightsProveTablesFundamentalsCaringWorthyCreditWarmSettingSettingsInstanceSecurePlentyFundamentalismSectsWhatever HappensRabbi Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“As the run-by-capital society of producers turned since into the run-by-capital society of consumers, I would say that the main, indeed "meta", function of the governments has become now to assure that it is the meetings between commodities and the consumers, and credit issuers and the borrowers, that regularly take place.” GovernmentRunningFunctionMeetingsCreditProducersConsumersCommodityBorrowers Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“If you have a choice between buying something and paying down your credit card, pay down your credit card.” IfsChoicesPayCreditCardsBuyingCredit CardBuying Something Author:Elizabeth Warren
“It's critical to level the playing field, to make prices and risks clear up front, so when someone signs on for a student loan or a mortgage or a credit card, they know the tricks and traps hidden in the fine print. That's why the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been working on a new financial aid shopping sheet. A shorter, two-page credit card agreement, a simpler mortgage disclosure form. All those are aimed toward helping people understand the basic bargain.” PeopleKnowsHas BeensTwoHelpingFormLevelsClearRiskFrontsFieldsStudentsFinePagesFinancialCreditCriticalProtectionAidsTricksCardsConsumersAgreementPrintShoppingTrapsSheetsLoanHelping PeopleBargainsMortgageCredit CardPlaying FieldsDisclosureStudent LoanFine PrintFinancial Aid Author:Elizabeth Warren
“Good for Warren Buffett that he can afford to do that! Some people, sometimes, need to finance a purchase or rent a car, and a credit card becomes a necessity.” PeopleNeedsSometimesCarCreditCardsFinanceCredit CardBuffettWarren Buffet Author:Elizabeth Warren
“I don't like credit cards. Let me triple underline that.” Let MeCreditCardsCredit Card Author:Elizabeth Warren
“I don't like credit cards. They make overspending very easy. They can make life a lot more complex and stressful.” EasyComplexesCreditCardsStressfulCredit CardOverspending Author:Elizabeth Warren
“My advice is to treat [credit cards] like what they are: little plastic grenades that must be handled very carefully.” LittlesAdviceTreatsCreditCardsPlasticCredit CardGrenade Author:Elizabeth Warren
“I think that's what's - one of the things that is alarming to me is [Donald] Trump, and I think Trump supporters seem to believe, he won, huge upset, full credit to him, and has got the wind at his back. And Republicans on The Hill do want him to succeed, obviously, and they're deferring to him more than they deep down in private sort of wish - want to, but they are going to defer to him publicly for awhile. But I think that is going to run out faster than people think.” PeopleThinkingWantBelieveSeemsRunningWishWindHugeTrumpRepublicanSucceedCreditHillsFasterUpsetSupporterDeep DownWant Him Author:William Kristol
“There could be a 'community of communities' rather than a state. They would be united in some way but without any governing body. It would be made up of unions, credit unions instead of banks. There would be no more lending at interest. There would be no more money lenders.” WayMadeStatesBodyWould BeInterestCommunityUnitedUnionsCreditMore MoneyGoverningLendingLendersCredit UnionsMoney Lenders Author:Dorothy Day
“You can buy almost anything anyplace in the world. You can get it delivered in 24 hours. You can pay for it on credit or just by swiping something. So, I don't know that the world is worse off, in that context, than before.” KnowsWorldHoursPayCredit Author:Michael Bloomberg
“Sometimes I wonder how much of these debates have to do with the desire, the legitimate desire, for that history to be recognized. Because there is a psychic power to the recognition that is not satisfied with a universal program, it's not satisfied by the Affordable Care Act, or an expansion of Pell grants, or an expansion of the earned-income tax credit.” SometimesCareDesireWonderTaxesProgramUniversalCreditDebateIncomeSatisfiedRecognitionGrantsExpansionPsychicsAffordableIncome TaxSometimes I WonderAffordable Care ActPell Grants Author:Barack Obama
“Donald Trump feels like he doesn't get the credit for being a legitimate president. He should have therapy over that legitimacy thing.” FeelsShouldPresidentTrumpShould HaveCreditTherapyLegitimacy Author:Stephanie Cutter
“What we are saying is that we need to consolidate the capacity to lend support. Because, one of the problems that's mentioned with regard to the Black Empowerment process in the case of small and medium business, is shortage of credit or difficulties of accessing credit.” NeedsProblemProcessBlackCasesSupportCapacityEmpowermentDifficultyRegardCreditMediumsShortage Author:Thabo Mbeki
“I created a human being from paper and I put it on the screen, a unique individual. I wish every performance, every IMDB credit, I would do it over, because I would do it better, because I would do it less. If that makes any sense.” IfsHumansIndividualWishHuman BeingsPaperUniquePerformancesCreditScreensUnique Individuals Author:Jay Mohr
“I very much believe in the Intentional Fallacy. If Donald Trump lies and dopes and bumbles and staggers his way into peace in the middle east, he gets credit for it. He owns it.” IfsWayBelieveLyingMiddleTrumpCreditEastMiddle EastDopeFallacy Author:Gene Weingarten
“I personally feel like black people in America have contributed so much for so long, and haven't always gotten credit for it.” PeopleFeelsLongAmericaBlackHavensCreditBlack People Author:Andre Holland
“[My grandmother] managed her money better than some financial professionals I know. I give credit always to her because she is the reason I have my column and national recognition.” KnowsGivingReasonFinancialCreditRecognitionGrandmotherMy GrandmotherColumns Author:Michelle Singletary
“I am getting on in years, and I have a very extensive IMDB page, and I cannot keep track of my own credits.” YearsMy OwnPagesTrackCredit Author:Rob Lowe
“By the end of the semester [in the high school] I was the only one up in front of the class everyday. Actually I could have passed the class four times over because every time you got in front of the class you got extra credit.That was the only class I got an A in and it was the funniest report card because it read Speech - A but everything else was just D, D, D, D.” EndsSchoolClassFourFrontsSpeechHigh SchoolEverydayCreditCardsExtrasReportsSemesterReport Cards Author:Gabriel Iglesias
“I was always drawn to the roots music, bluegrass, blues, early rock - Sun Records, Elvis [Presley]. And I still love that music to this day. Memphis never gets the credit. It's much more musically rich than Nashville ever will be. Nashville manufactured that hokey-hillbilly image way back.” WayStillsSunRichRecordsRocksRootsCreditThis DayNashvilleMemphisBluegrassHillbilly Author:Steve Young
“The campaign was a more significant training ground than I think people give it credit for. By the time I got here, I think I had a pretty good sense of what was required. But the circumstances in which I came in were different than most executives, right? The enterprise was in the midst of a major crisis.” PeopleThinkingGivingDifferentCircumstancesMajorsTrainingCrisisCreditCampaignsSignificantEnterpriseMidstExecutivesGood Sense Author:Barack Obama
“The Tea Party I have huge disagreements with, obviously. But I give them credit for having activated themselves. And they made a difference in terms of moving the Republican Party, in terms of moving the country in a particular direction. It's a direction I disagreed with. But it showed that, in fact, you get involved, if your voice is heard it has an impact.” IfsGivingMadeCountryFactsMovingVoiceTermDifferencesPartyHeardParticularHugeInvolvedRepublicanImpactCreditTeaRepublican PartyGet InvolvedDisagreementTea Party Author:Barack Obama
“I should have asked for credit - but he has no idea how amazing it is that a character that was written as a boy can be equally written for a girl. It's like you said, just write a character as if it were a man, and then turn it and make it into a woman. It's like, we're human beings, after all.” IfsMenShouldWritingHumansSaidIdeasCharacterTurnsGirlHuman BeingsBoysWrittenLike YouShould HaveCreditNo Idea Author:Karla Souza
“I am much more likely to care about someone trying to be funny and give them some credit for whatever he or she did that was remotely funny than I am to be mused by somebody declaring this isn't funny, that isn't funny, this sucks. If you want to write humor, you're going to have to get used to that.” IfsWantGivingWritingTryingCareUsedCreditDeclaringCares About Someone Author:Dave Barry
“I've never met any strong critic of the United States anywhere in the world who gave us any credit for having limit on government.” WorldStatesGovernmentStrongUnitedUnited StatesMetsLimitsCriticsCredit Author:Robert Scheer
“When I'm working with another writer, I tend to make a lot of effort. When I collaborate with a writer, I'm not interested in credit, but I'm feeding him stuff all the time that I feel is important to shaping the script.” FeelsImportantStuffEffortScriptsCreditNot InterestedFeeding Author:Oliver Stone
“I've always believed in the saying that "there is no limit to what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit."” IfsCareLimitsDon't CareCreditAccomplishAlways Believe Author:Charles Koch
“I don't want to pick on Deutsche Bank, but I think the world of the regulated financial conglomerate, it is a strange thing. There is nothing in common between writing checks and running branch offices, issuing credit cards - those are good businesses, but they really have zero in common with M&A advice. They're a different customer.” ThinkingWorldWantWritingDifferentRunningCommonAdviceStrangeOfficePicksFinancialCreditCustomersChecksCardsBranchesZeroCredit CardStrange ThingsGood Business Author:Ken Moelis
“To Craig's [ Brewer] credit, I felt totally safe on the set [of Black Snake Moan] . And because I felt safe, Sam[L.Jackson] had to protect me. He got upset at all the physical stuff Craig wanted me to do. When I start doing stuff like that, all the screaming and running, I kinda go out of my head. I'm not necessarily in my own body anymore.” BodyRunningWantedFeltStuffBlackMy OwnProtectSafeCreditUpsetSnakesBrewersBlack Snake Moan Author:Christina Ricci
“George W. Bush tried working with the Russians after 9/11; Obama had the reset. Both presidents achieved less than they wanted, but they both achieved something. Those policies made sense, and it's to the credit of both Presidents Bush and Obama that even as they reached out to Russia, they did not sacrifice core American interests, or core American values. We didn't give the Russians on the altar of better relations other countries. We were able to do two things at once.” GivingMadeTwoCountryAbleWantedValuesPresidentInterestSacrificePolicyRelationCreditCoreRussiaTwo ThingsOther CountriesAltarsPresident BushAmerican ValuesReset Author:Daniel Fried
“John Kerry tried to work with the Russians on Syria, and the man was honorable, because he was trying to do the right thing, and frankly, playing a very weak hand, a hand that was weak not because of him, okay. He did the best he could, but I will say this to his enormous credit: he never offered a dirty deal. You can have Ukraine if you only help us out on Syria. Never - he never did that.” IfsMenTryingHelpingHandsDealsHe ManWeakOkayCreditEnormousDirtyRight ThingSyriaHonorableUkraineJohn Kerry Author:Daniel Fried
“If you are small and don't particularly want credit for what you are doing, you can achieve a lot.” IfsWantAchieveCreditDoing You Author:Mary Robinson
“I'm always working on something. Addiction never gets any credit, always talked about as a total liability, and I'll admit that most of its traits aren't positive in our lives. But there's one amazing thing it gave me: a tireless work ethic.” Our LivesEthicsAddictionCreditTraitsWork EthicAmazing ThingsLiabilityAlways Working Author:Joshua Mohr
“You can pretty much trace when the big individual indebtedness kicked in, and it was when the credit card became generally available.” BigsIndividualAvailableCreditCardsCredit CardIndebtedness Author:Margaret Atwood
“Under the old system - which is now so archaic that a lot of people can't remember it - if you wanted money you had to go to the bank and take the money out in cash form, and you couldn't take out money that you didn't have. But with the credit card you can spend money you don't have, and that is just so tempting.” PeopleIfsWantedRememberFormCreditCardsCashCredit CardTempting Author:Margaret Atwood
“You think you have the amount of money that is your credit limit. We're just wired to think that, you know? Until the bill arrives - a sobering moment - you think you're richer than you are.” ThinkingKnowsMomentsAmountLimitsBillsCredit Author:Margaret Atwood
“You gleefully say, "I just thought of something!", when in fact your brain performed an enormous amount of work before your moment of genius struck. When an idea is served up from behind the scenes, your neural circuitry has been working on it for hours or days or years, consolidating information and trying out new combinations. But you take credit without further wonderment at the vast, hidden machinery behind the scenes.” TryingYearsHas BeensIdeasMomentsFactsHoursBehindsBrainInformationAmountGeniusSceneCreditEnormousCombinationMachineryYour MomBehind The Scenes Author:David Eagleman
“If you don't want to use your tax credit to go by health insurance, you don't have to. If you don't want to buy this plan, you want to buy that plan, go for it, it's your choice. It's called freedom. It's called free market health care.” IfsWantUseCareChoicesPlansTaxesCreditHealth CareFree Market Author:Paul Ryan
“Care work produces public goods, and should be supported in families by policies such as paid parental leave and caregiver tax credits, and by investments in good training and wages for caregiving, including early childhood education, in the market.” ShouldCareChildhoodPolicyProduceTaxesTrainingPaidInvestmentIncludingCreditGoodsWagesParentalEarly ChildhoodCaregiversCaregivingEarly Childhood Education Author:Riane Eisler
“We need to look at [Osama bin Laden killing ] as a great victory for the American military and intelligence personnel and for the American people. A lot of bravery and courage displayed by those folks on behalf of all of us. It's also a good day for the administration. I think President [Barack] Obama and his national security team acted on the intelligence when it came in, and they deserve a lot of credit, too.” PeopleThinkingNeedsLooksPresidentTeamSecurityMilitaryVictoryDeserveBraveryKillingFolksCreditAdministrationBarackNational SecurityBehalfGood DayBin LadenPresident Barack ObamaOsama Bin LadenPersonnelBravery And CourageAmerican MilitaryGreat Victory Author:Sarah Palin
“Snerdley is one of the most loyal employees. Snerdley believes that I have only received about 2% of the credit that I deserve for a whole bunch of stuff. So any time he gets a caller like you he’ll put you to the top.” BelieveWholeStuffLike YouDeserveCreditBunchEmployeeLoyal Author:Rush Limbaugh