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I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck. -- Anjelica Huston
On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise. -- John James Audubon
I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas. -- Laura Hillenbrand
I just love the feeling from the fans and when I'm walking on deck I can hear people screaming and wishing you the best. That puts you into the game more than anything. -- David Ortiz
I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now. -- Henry David Thoreau
Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love. -- Eminem
Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day. -- Will Carleton
If there was no New Orleans, America would just be a bunch of free people dying of boredom." -Judy Deck in an e-mail sent to Chris Rose -- Chris Rose
It might be harder for us to charge a higher interest rate, like they do, so it might not be as profitable for us. But we can either compete or partner, like we've announced with On Deck, which does some of the stuff we just spoke about. -- Jamie Dimon
Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck. -- S. J. Perelman
Don't you think you're just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic? -- William Vickrey
I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck. -- Ann Landers
I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death. -- Casey Affleck
I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book. -- Bear Grylls
I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle. -- Sally Ride
I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up. -- Barney Ross
We need all hands on deck, and that means clearing hurdles for women and girls as they navigate careers in science, technology, engineering, and math. -- Michelle Obama
You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no? -- H. R. Giger
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. -- Ely Culbertson
Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms. -- David Byrne
I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future. -- Van Jones
Sustainable development is a fundamental break that's going to reshuffle the entire deck. There are companies today that are going to dominate in the future simply because they understand that. -- Francois-Henri Pinault
Playing with decks, for me, has always been about trying new things. I make it a point to keep trying different things, keep pushing it a little bit at a time. -- Kid Koala
Whether you're shuffling a deck of cards or holding your breath, magic is pretty simple: It comes down to training, practice, and experimentation, followed up by ridiculous pursuit and relentless perseverance. -- David Blaine
I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to me. It was a gypsy tarot deck that I used to carry everywhere. -- David Blaine
I've been barefoot most of my life: either flip flops or barefoot on the pool deck. Although you'd think that would make me a good candidate for barefoot running, that doesn't work with me. -- Summer Sanders
What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics. -- David Lloyd George
Well, I really don't like heights. I don't get on the top deck of a double-decker because that's a bit high for me. I always feel that I'm going to hurl myself off, so heights are a problem. -- Jenny Eclair
My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I've hung bird feeders... for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that. -- Julia Cameron
Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the 'Lion King' circle of life as we know it in Times Square, the creative loop that swings for the stars and sometimes crashes into the upper deck. -- James Wolcott
I'm working on a screenplay right now for the BBC, but I hope to have the decks cleared soon so I can get into the studio with my pals and put down some more tracks, try to get a strong dance single together. -- Irvine Welsh
In any finite region of space, matter can only arrange itself in a finite number of configurations, just as a deck of cards can be arranged in only finitely many different orders. If you shuffle the deck infinitely many times, the card orderings must necessarily repeat. -- Brian Greene
There's a lot of peer pressure to not do positive stories out of Iraq... I think there's a sense that the administration got a pass during the hot days of war and now that the war is over it's time to even out the deck somewhat. -- Jerry Nachman
We can talk about republican or democratic approaches to the economy, but until you fix the student loan bubble - and that's where the real bubble is - and the tuition bubble, we don't have a chance. All this other stuff is shuffling deck-chairs on the Titanic. -- Mark Cuban
The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money. -- Linda Chavez
On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden. -- Maya Angelou
Moonwalking with Einstein' refers to a memory device I used when I memorized a deck of playing cards at the U.S. Memory Championship. When I competed in 2006, I set a new U.S. record by memorizing a deck of cards in one minute and 40 seconds. That record has since fallen. -- Joshua Foer
Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next card in the deck does at a blackjack table in Las Vegas. There is a factor of randomness that must be factored in, but precisely how to do so is anyone's guess. -- Henry Petroski
You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives. -- Jose Saramago
Tarot cards likely originated in northern Italy during the late 14th or early 15th century. The oldest surviving set, known as the Visconti-Sforza deck, was created for the Duke of Milan's family around 1440. The cards were used to play a bridge-like game known as tarocchi, popular at the time among nobles and other leisure lovers. -- Brendan I. Koerner
Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos. -- Walter Kirn
There's this misconception that the Navy is this cruise ship, and you get to go out and sail around, and every now and then, you have to swab the deck. But, no, it is a very impressive group of young people that live at sea, in this place that's very uncomfortable. They exude a pride that is well-deserved. -- Tom Hanks
Sitting with a deck of cards in your hand all day is an obsession. Visiting print shops and bookstores and libraries is an obsession. And writing about this is an obsession. I think, in general, most collectors are obsessed. I think the only form of a rationalized greed is when you're collecting something you are supposedly serious about. -- Ricky Jay
I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do. -- Katy Perry
My ideal meal varies, depending on the time of year. Lobster on a deck overlooking a beach at sunset is one - but all my kids have to be there, because they are all lobster-lovers. Making a bolognese sauce over pappardelle for my husband on a winter evening, because he loves my bolognese sauce and it's his comfort food. -- Amy Bloom
So once I thought of the villain with a sense of humor, I began to think of a name and the name "the Joker" immediately came to mind. There was the association with the Joker in the deck of cards, and I probably yelled literally, 'Eureka!' because I knew I had the name and the image at the same time. -- Jerry Robinson
To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour, the precise order of 10 shuffled decks of playing cards in the same amount of time, and one shuffled deck in less than two minutes. There are 36 grand masters of memory in the world. -- Joshua Foer
O captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weather'd every wrack The prize we sought is won The port is near, the bells I hear The people all exulting While follow eyes, the steady keel The vessel grim and daring But Heart! Heart! Heart! O the bleeding drops of red Where on the deck my captain lies Fallen cold and dead. -- Walt Whitman
The deck is stacked against Obama. -- Ron Fournier
Kent Abbott is in the on-deck circuit. -- Jerry Coleman
Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus. -- Jerry Coleman
You can shuffle my deck any day! -- Bruce Forsyth
Dennis Conner is Pete Rose in deck shoes. -- Dave Anderson
Talent shuffles the deck. Genius brings a new deck. -- Mason Cooley
If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck. -- John D. MacDonald
When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. -- Pat Riley
He looks like something that fell out of a deck of cards! -- Bobby Heenan
When you're born into a showbiz family, the deck is stacked against you. -- John Darnielle
Just when you think you're playing your cards right, God shuffles the deck. -- Mark Sheppard
If you'd put it in a Powerpoint deck don't put it in your ad -- Lee Clow
I don't think I could live without a deck of cards in my hands. -- Omar Sharif
Waking or sleeping, I see a wreck, And hear a cry from a reeling deck! -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Play not the Peacock, looking everywhere about you, to see if you be well deck't. -- George Washington
I'm on a frosting sailboat, tossed around by blue-green waves, the deck shifting beneath my feet. -- Suzanne Collins
Climate change is real. In order to alter this reality, we need all hands on deck. -- Gisele Bundchen
Either I've invented a whole new logic or, ahem, I'm not playing with a full deck. -- Philip K. Dick
There's no place where one can breathe as freely as on the deck of a ship. -- Elsa Triolet
I made her the queen of my double wide trailer with the polyester curtains and redwood deck. -- Sammy Kershaw
Not only did we play the race card, we dealt it from the bottom of the deck. -- Robert Shapiro
Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic". -- Stephen Covey
A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,- A cap by night, a stocking all the day. -- Oliver Goldsmith
But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time. -- David Copperfield
When he come up in the club he be blazin up Got stacks on deck like he savin up -- Nicki Minaj
I'm back in Boston. I own an outdoor deck hockey rink, and I own a boxing gym here also. -- Micky Ward
Enlightened beings are rare in the universe. They are the joker in the deck. They are outside the circle. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I've seen that picture before. It was a two-seamer that didn't sink until it hit the upper deck somewhere. -- Joe Torre
I may not be playing with a full deck but I don't need a full deck. I have four aces. -- Jonathan Winters
Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Pardon me, Mr. Craig, but how are we going to defense Mr. McCovey... in the upper deck or the lower deck? -- Casey Stengel
Took awhile, got the jokers out of the deck now, I'm holdin all the cards and niggas wanna play chess now -- Drake
I am usually more impressed with people who are artful in shuffling a deck, than those who can masterfully play chess. -- Lionel Suggs
Those bellhops in Miami are tip-happy. I ordered a deck of playing cards and the bellboy made fifty-two trips to my room. -- Henny Youngman
Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks. -- Herman Melville
If Rose's streak was still intact, with that single to left, the fans would be throwing babies out of the upper deck. -- Jerry Coleman
Americans have fought their way back from tough economic times, but the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top, -- Hillary Clinton
With a sound like a bat hitting a watermelon, pirate fist connected with pirate jaw and a gold tooth bounced across the deck. -- Gideon Defoe
I wouldn't even get elected. I'd probably deck a couple of people, too which would not play very well with the national media. -- Tim Robbins
If travel were so inspiring and informing a business ... then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers. -- Sinclair Lewis
Curran and I mixed about as well as glycerin and nitric acid: put us together, shake a bit, and hit the deck as we exploded. -- Ilona Andrews
Empaths did not come into this world to be victims, we came to be warriors. Be brave. Stay strong. We need all hands on deck. -- Anthon St. Maarten
You have to be careful on the deck, because of the "hatches," which are holes placed around a sailboat at random to increase the insurance rates. -- Dave Barry
Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody. -- Marcus Aurelius
All afternoon in the deck chair, I try to describe to my notebook the colors of the water and sky. How to translate sunlight into words? -- Frances Mayes
She is the swelling sail, trim rigging and bust sunlit deck of our matrimonial yacht. I am the low hull, with the invisible ballast and keel. -- Alasdair Gray
When I was in school, I used to look out the window and see the big red double-deck buses driving by. It just looked so free. -- Brian Johnson
I'd love to be abducted. I'd sit on my deck at home waiting all night long to be abducted. But that's never happened that I know of. -- Sammy Hagar
The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade. -- Alexander Pope
If I take a tumble, I'll mae quite a splash, but at least I won't smash against the deck and make a mess. Still be dead, though. -- L.A. Meyer
Once I leave I leave. I am not going to speak to the man on the bridge and I am not going to spit on the deck. -- Stanley Baldwin
One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all the cards. -- John Steinbeck
He might have perfect form and better swordsmanship, but I had one thing on my side that stacked the deck in my favor. I was absolutely crazy. -- Katherine McIntyre
You see, that's the fun of Buddhism. We do have a wild card in the deck that can't be explained, that changes value continuously, and that's enlightenment. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Nothin'," Alex says. "We'll talk later, chica. It's not a big deal." "Don't chica me, Alex," his bride snaps. "I think she's gonna deck him," Ben murmurs, amused. -- Simone Elkeles
Even when EPA subjects its science to peer review, the agency often stacks the deck of supposedly independent advisory panels by including members who are EPA grant recipients. -- Ralph Hall
People feel the deck is being totally stacked against them, and the Democrats have various things in their playbook to go after opponents; taxes is one of them. -- Rush Limbaugh
People feel the deck is being totally stacked against them, and the Democrats have various things in their playbook to go after opponents; taxes is one of them. -- Rush Limbaugh
Frank went out for baseball and while he wasn't very good, it wasn't a total loss. The coach used him as a pattern to drawn the on-deck circle. -- Pat Williams
I don't object to nine aces in one deck. But when a man lays down five aces in one hand... and besides, I know what I dealt him! -- W. C. Fields
They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and coordination of a deck-chair. -- Terry Pratchett
None of us have any control over the deck or the hand we've been dealt. What we do have is total responibility as to how we play the hand. -- Steve Alten
Only on the third class tourist class passengers' deck was it a sultry overcast morning, but then if you do things on the cheap you must expect these things. -- Spike Milligan
We're providing planning to a huge audience who's never had access to financial planners before. This was always my plan for LearnVest. It was in my very first pitch deck. -- Alexa Von Tobel
The good news is that in every deck of fifty-two cards there are 2,598,960 possible hands. The bad news is that you are only going to be dealt one of them. -- Anthony Holden
A short poem from my book:PerspectiveOf coursethere is a hellshe saidand it hasan observation deck;so I maystand and waveto all those kindsouls belowwho warned meI would go there. -- Michelle Hartman
You knew when a woman loves you like that, she can love you with every card in the deck and then pull a knife across your throat the next morning. -- Van Heflin
Why did people run around in random directions when shooting started instead of literally hitting the deck to stay out of the line of fire? How stupid could you get? -- Cheyenne McCray
It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Um, accidents happen. Especially if there's a co-star that you're not that fond of - you might 'accidentally' deck him. But no, I'm a professional. I'm just saying that can happen. -- Timothy Olyphant

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