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  • Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards. -- Steve Ballmer
  • When a parent dies, the whole house of cards comes down. -- Loudon Wainwright III
  • Making a movie is still very difficult in Hollywood, regardless of what you have and what level you're at. It is a house of cards, and things have to perfectly align. -- Nat Faxon
  • Remove the predators, and the whole ecosystem begins to crash like a house of cards. As the sharks disappear, the predator-prey balance dramatically shifts, and the health of our oceans declines. -- Brian Skerry
  • Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down. -- Callum McDougall
  • Every plan is a house of cards. -- Holly Black
  • We are creatures built on a house of cards of language. -- Stefan Molyneux
  • Hey, Nana... people's feelings change easily... what you see is a house of cards... nothing's sure, and nothing lasts forever. -- Ai Yazawa
  • With 'House of Cards,' you really get the heart and the meat of drama - and it's a thriller! -- Robin Wright
  • I watch 'House of Cards,' which was great. I don't watch a lot. I spend so much time doing it. -- Joanne Kelly
  • I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards. -- W. Somerset Maugham
  • The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse. -- Heinz Guderian
  • I couldn't imagine something asking as much of me as 'House Of Cards.' It's a great warm-up for coming back to the screen. -- Kevin Spacey
  • Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate yourself. Until someone comes along to drag you out. -- Haruki Murakami
  • For the fundamentalist who wants to believe every word of the Bible, however, life is a house of cards, with each card a tenet of faith. If you remove one card, the entire house collapses. -- Morris Sullivan
  • The major international appeal for 'House of Cards' was kind of a surprise because it's a very American show. What we learned is that American politics is very American, but greed and corruption and all of that is very global. -- Ted Sarandos
  • Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it. It's not like you get to a point where you're all right for the rest of your life. -- Patti Smith
  • ...the ongoing suspicion that scientific discoveries or rigorous biblical scholarship will undermine faith is a tacit admission that faith is threatened by knowledge, because it is ultimately constructed on weak or faulty assumptions and, like the proverbial house of cards, needs to be "protected" from collapsing. (p. 21) -- Robin R. Meyers
  • ...the ongoing suspicion that scientific discoveries or rigorous biblical scholarship will undermine faith is a tacit admission that faith is threatened by knowledge, because it is ultimately constructed on weak or faulty assumptions and, like the proverbial house of cards, needs to be "protected" from collapsing. (p. 21)" -- Robin R. Meyers
  • I don't make a habit of watching my parents' films, because it is a little strange. But I will say that I binge watch 'House of Cards' compulsively, and I think it's the first time I've ever seen one of my mom's projects and totally forgot she was my mom! -- Dylan Penn
  • The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering. -- Ted Sarandos
  • Our liberty will not be secured at the sword's point... We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it. And when the people reaches that height, God will provide a weapon, the idols will be shattered, tyranny will crumble like a house of cards, and liberty will shine out like the first dawn. -- Jose Rizal
  • A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh. -- Stephen King
  • The gods tempt us. They offer us riches and sweet smelling women, tres leches, each milk sweeter than the one before. But you cannot beat the gods. The grander house and the bigger deal only mean more borrowed time, more risk. When you build your life on a house of cards, you never know when the joker will turn up. -- Paul Levine
  • So, I'm thinking of a name for a villain that has a sense of humor. I thought of 'The Joker' as a name, and as soon as I thought that, I associate it with the playing card, as my family had a tradition of champion playing; my brother was a contract champion bridge player. There were always cards around the house. -- Jerry Robinson
  • Sometimes I feel that in religious content, religious drama, it's almost told like a tale, like an account of facts, and in 'A.D. The Bible Continues,' it's drama, it's real drama that we like to see on TV today, seeing the characters struggle and doubt and be completely in conflict with each other, kind of like 'House of Cards.' -- Juan Pablo Di Pace
  • The best part of shooting 'House of Cards' in Baltimore is eating lots of soft-shell crab. -- Robin Wright
  • If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
  • Francis Underwood was entirely based on Richard III. When Michael Dobbs wrote 'House of Cards' in the original British series, Richard III is what he based the character on. -- Kevin Spacey
  • The best of American television is thought-provoking, original, brilliant, exciting - from 'The Sopranos' on, whether it's 'The Wire' or 'Breaking Bad' or 'House of Cards,' they're fantastic pieces of art. -- Martin Freeman
  • I watched 'House of Cards' in three days - and only in three days because I had other responsibilities, like my daughter. I couldn't just sit there and watch the entire season in just one sitting. -- Selenis Leyva
  • Did I collect baseball cards? I've got 10 books full of plastic in my mother's house. All the Upper Decks, the Fleers, the Fleer Ultras. My grandfather brought me to the trade shows. I collected Marvel cards, too. -- Action Bronson
  • Clearly the success of the Netflix model, releasing the entire season of 'House of Cards' at once, proved one thing: The audience wants the control. They want the freedom. If they want to binge as they've been doing on 'House of Cards' and lots of other shows, we should let them binge. -- Kevin Spacey
  • The two things that got everyone's attention about the 'House of Cards' deal was the two-season commitment and David Fincher. After David Fincher directs a series for Netflix, no one else can say, 'Well, I'm not going to direct a series for the Internet.' -- Ted Sarandos
  • I have more faith in doing something creative for a cable station or something like Yahoo or Google or Amazon. What Netflix did with 'House of Cards' and David Fincher was brilliant. That is inspiring to me. I think there is more chance for creativity in animation, it just hasn't happened there yet. -- Henry Selick
  • Advertisers don't want to be ignored, and they are drunk on our data, which is what Google and other large networks are really selling. The ads are almost a by-product; what companies really want to know is what antiperspirant a woman of 25-34 is most likely to purchase after watching 'House of Cards.' -- Jeffrey Zeldman
  • My favorite TV shows are Orange Is the New Black, House of Cards, Modern Family, and Veep. -- Danai Gurira
  • Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. -- Steven Wright
  • I couldnt imagine something asking as much of me as House Of Cards. Its a great warm-up for coming back to the screen. -- Kevin Spacey
  • I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my business cards:"Jean-Baptiste Clamence, actor". -- Albert Camus
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