Cards On The Table Quotes

• I never want to sort of put all the cards on the table all at once, because that's somehow there's always a journey to go on. There's always something to be revealed, in my mind, about characters.

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  Jeremy Northam

  Character   Journey   Cards On The Table  

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• Love should not be a guessing game. In fact, it shouldn't be a game at all. One should lay all the cards on the table, and be honest with intentions and feelings. And while some may hide and bluff with their cards, the true winners are those that lay their cards down honestly and find what they are looking for because of it.

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  Carlos Salinas

  Love   Cards On The Table   Games  

  1781

• Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone ever had, I'd give it to Darwin, ahead of even Newton or Einstein and everyone else. In a single stroke, the idea of evolution by natural selection unifies the realm of life, meaning, and purpose with the realm of space and time, cause and effect, mechanism and physical law. It is not just a wonderful idea. It is a dangerous idea.

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  Daniel Dennett

  Ideas   Space   Awards  

  "Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life". Book by Daniel Dennett, 1995.

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• Let's be honest, the cards' on the table: Jealousy's a sin, Cain killed Abel. Backstabber...Caesar had Brutus. It's hard to weed 'em out, even Jesus had Judas.

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  Pusha T

  Weed   Jesus   Rap  

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• Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.

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  Warren G. Bennis

  Cards On The Table   Tables   Servant Leadership  

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• I think that some of the greatest muckrakers and some of the greatest investigative journalists of all time had strong feelings about civil rights. There is a role for the journalist-advocate. And as long as you play your cards on the table, I think thats a role that we should allow.

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  Pete Earley

  Strong   Thinking   Rights  

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• I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person means asking the same question over and over again: Is this the truth, or not? I begin this letter to you, then, in the western tradition. If I understand it, the western tradition is: Put your cards on the table.

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  Amy Hempel

  Lying   Mean   Thinking  

  Amy Hempel (2006). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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