Quotes with high-risk

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  • Cate Blanchett When you're stretching yourself, as a role like 'Blue Jasmine' did for me, you risk falling flat on your face.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • René Descartes Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
    René Descartes
    French philosopher, scientist (1596 - 1650)
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  • Barney Frank While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Bob Menendez While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together.
    Bob Menendez
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Tobias G. Smollett Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
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  • Bartholomew Dowling Who dreads to the dust returning?
    Who shrinks from the sable shore,
    Where the high and haughty yearning
    Of the soul can sting no more?
    Source: The Revel: Time of the Famine and Plague in India, reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
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  • Abraham Lincoln With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Britney Spears With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt because love is an amazing feeling.
    Britney Spears
    American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress (1981 - )
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  • Bev Perdue Women have to be very vigilant, and demand the very best in public schools, health care and pay, those things that men and women of this state value are at risk.
    Bev Perdue
    American businesswoman and politician (1947 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Women played no part in Athenian high culture. They could not vote, attend the theatre, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy. But the male orientation of Greek culture was inseparable of its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
    Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Germaine Greer Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Bob Taft Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.
    Bob Taft
    American politician and attorney (1942 - )
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  • Arundhati Roy You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.
    Arundhati Roy
    Indian author (1961 - )
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  • Bebe Neuwirth You have to be aware. Like, I'm not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I'm not going to risk breaking a leg. I want to be dancing the way I'm dancing now for 30 more years.
    Bebe Neuwirth
    American actress, singer and dancer (1958 - )
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  • Brit Hume You have to have pace, you have to have high production values, you have to have interesting graphics, and you have to have attractive people. CNN could afford not to be so obedient to those commands, and for a long time, it wasn't.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Louise Erdrich You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.
    Source: The Painted Drum (2005)
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • An Wang You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.
    An Wang
    Chinese–American computer engineer and inventor (1920 - 1990)
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  • Jane Austen You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • George S. Patton You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Jeremy Corbyn You should never be so high and mighty you can't listen to somebody else and learn something from them. Leadership is as much about using the ear as using the mouth.
    Jeremy Corbyn
    former Leader of the British Labour Party, MP for Islington North (1949 - )
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