"If you have a choice between buying something and paying down your credit card, pay down your credit card."
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"I'm a neurotic Jew who doesn't want loans. I can't even carry a balance on my credit card without having a nervous breakdown."
"One of the reasons I decided to apply for American citizenship after something like a quarter of century of living here on a British, European Union passport and a green card, was my identification with the United States in the post-September 11th period."
"My parents have one rule for me: I can't do any of this if I have any C's on my report card."
"Along with the Oscars, the Academy is giving out a green card."
"One honest relationship can be more productive than fistfuls of business cards."
"One genuine new relationship is worth a fistful of business cards."
"If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at cards. Can I get an 'amen?'"
"Credit card interest payments are the dumbest money of all."
"Anything was better than playing cards, and I was doing something I wanted to do creating."
"There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they would most have admired the card index."
"I can't even get a credit card without three credit bureaus saying I'm good enough."
"...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of other things."
"The credit card companies have put the loan sharks out of business."
"I don't like credit cards. Let me triple underline that."
"Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you."
"My advice is to treat [credit cards] like what they are: little plastic grenades that must be handled very carefully."
"All three [of my grandkids] earn money around the house, and all three spend their own money. Now I've noticed that when they have to spend their own money on birthday cards, they have decided that homemade cards are so much nicer."
"I don't like thank you cards because I don't know what else to say. What do I put on the inside? See Front."
"This is a highly reliable power source. Being a large credit card processor, doing $6 million an hour in transactions, our computers have to work."