Quotes with risk-taking

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  • Ben Zobrist As I get older, I just need to continue to make sure I'm staying in peak shape and taking care of my body the best I can.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Peter Gabriel As the band got more successful, it was increasingly difficult to get people to take a risk with something that might jeopardize their livelihood. [On Genesis]
    Peter Gabriel
    British musician, composer and songwriter (born 1950) (1950 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Asset managers have different approaches, and I don't wish to suggest there is only one way to run money. There are many ways one can attempt to reduce risk, improve performance, lower drawdowns and reduce volatility.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Arne Duncan At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in this kind of financial duress since the great depression. And so what we have is just sort of a miraculous opportunity simply by stopping the subsidy to banks when we already have the risk of loans. We can plow those savings into our students. And we can make college dramatically more affordable, tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.
    Arne Duncan
    American civil servant (1964 - )
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  • Bernard Cornwell At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • Brendan Myers At the risk of sounding like a spoilsport, I'd say that pagans have about the same experience of otherness and isolation as anyone else. We're not special in that regard. But this is because the problem of loneliness is almost universal - and that, to my mind, makes it much more serious.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Benjamin Whorf At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms.
    Benjamin Whorf
    American linguist and engineer (1897 - 1941)
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  • Anthony Hamilton Being a barber is about taking care of the people.
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali But I believe that the DPKO at this time was very much involved with American administration and was acting, taking on consideration the demand or the recommendation of the American administration. American administration was very powerful.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Bob Geldof But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I've several friends just haven't made it by taking Prozac.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Alvin Toffler But if this makes the financial system more flexible and helps it overcome localized crises, it also raises the ante, escalating the risk of massive collapse.
    Power Shift (1990)
    Alvin Toffler
    American writer, futurist, and businessman (1928 - 2016)
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  • Ann Veneman But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts - that is, the meat of the animal itself - should not cause any risk to human health.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Burt Rutan By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Charles Horton Cooley By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Samuel Johnson By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Can you imagine, in 2030, taking a space cruise on the very ship that carried the first human beings to Mars? I can't believe that people wouldn't line up for that possibility.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • John Bradshaw Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.
    John Bradshaw
    American educator, counselor, motivational speaker, and author (1933 - 2016)
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  • Vance Havner Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.
    Vance Havner
    American writer
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  • Ban Ki-moon Climate change, in some regions, has aggravated conflict over scarce land, and could well trigger large-scale migration in the decades ahead. And rising sea levels put at risk the very survival of all small island states. These and other implications for peace and security have implications for the United Nations itself.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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