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• Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

  George Soros

  Investing, Unexpected, Financial

  "Great Money Minds" by Chris Stallman at TeenAnalyst.com, May 5, 2005.

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• Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Trying, Actresses, Lost

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• To us, investing is the equivalent of going out and betting against the pari-mutuel system. We look for a horse with one chance in two of winning, and that pays three to one. In other words, we're looking for a mispriced gamble. That's what investing is, and you have to know enough to know whether the gamble is mispriced.

  Charlie Munger

  Horse, Winning, Two

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• I like being tested. I get as scared as anyone. But the feeling of putting yourself on the line, betting on your talent and having it work; that's the most exhilarating feeling in the world.

  Conan O'Brien

  Exhilarating Feeling, Feelings, World

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• I'm betting that in two years I'll be talking to you about a film that I shot on an iPhone. It's absolutely coming, I have no doubt in my mind.

  Edward Burns

  Iphone, Talking, Years

  FaceBook post by Edward Burns from Apr 29, 2012

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• I'm not a betting man.

  Kelly Jones

  Men

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• What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

  Samuel Butler

  Atheism, Kind, Should

  Samuel Butler, Hans-Peter Breuer (1984). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: 1874-1883”, Univ Pr of Amer

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• The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.

  James Surowiecki

  Sports, Criminals, Doe

  "A ‘Grown-Up Discussion’ About Sports Betting". fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com. February 6, 2013.

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• I understand it is 13-8 against Egon Ronay publishing a Good Betting Shop Food Guide by 1997.

  Clement Freud

  Gambling, Guides, Shops

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• I don't think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave there, by being different in appearance than the girls who preceded me.

  Elisabeth Rohm

  Girl, Thinking, Giving

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• I am not normally a betting person, but I say that putting your money on the American people is about as close to a sure bet as you are going to get.

  Blanche Lincoln

  People, Persons

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• All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here... We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games.

  Meyer Lansky

  Sports, Honesty, Agency

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine.

  Shirley Booth

  Directors, Mines

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• Now faith is the turning of dreams into deeds. It is betting your life on the unseen realities

  Clarence Jordan

  Dream, Reality, Unseen

  Clarence Jordan (2004). “Cotton Patch Gospel: Hebrews and the General Epistles”, p.9, Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc.

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• Courtroom : A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds favoring Judas.

  H. L. Mencken

  Jesus, Odds, America

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• Worrying is betting against yourself.

  Terence McKenna

  Worry

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• We are far betting dealing with the big losses-death, divorce, debt, and debilitating illness-than with the daily onslaught of little losses.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Divorce, Loss, Debt

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• Remember this: The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself.

  Nick Dandolos

  Funny, Money, Humorous

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• Are there rules about betting on baseball games? Yeah--you have to stay away from the Padres.

  James Siegel

  Baseball, Games, Yeah

  James Siegel (2005). “Detour”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Betting stimulates the caring glands. That is where there is so much caring at the racetrack.

  Larry Merchant

  Caring, Gambling, Glands

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• I'm not the betting kind.

  Terry Gross

  Kind

  "Terry Gross and Bill O'Reilly: Round Two". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2004.

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• Trading is more or less like betting or gambling, but only without the pleasure show of the game.

  William C. Brown

  Gambling, Games, Pleasure

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• Ask yourself: Am I an investor, or am I a speculator? An investor is a person who owns business and holds it forever and enjoys the returns that U.S. businesses, and to some extent global businesses, have earned since the beginning of time. Speculation is betting on price. Speculation has no place in the portfolio or the kit of the typical investor.

  John C. Bogle

  Forever, Typical, Return

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• Betting completely on HTML5 is one of the, if not THE biggest strategic mistake we've made.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Mistake, Made, Strategic

  "HTML5 v native apps: key considerations for your mobile strategy" by Michael Berliner, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2013.

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• In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of risk. The list of individual traders who have lost more than a billion dollars at a time betting on derivatives is not short.

  John Lanchester

  Business, Risk, Lists

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