Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I'm not a betting man.
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.
I understand it is 13-8 against Egon Ronay publishing a Good Betting Shop Food Guide by 1997.
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.
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.
I'm not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine.
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.
Courtroom : A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds favoring Judas.
Now faith is the turning of dreams into deeds. It is betting your life on the unseen realities
Worrying is betting against yourself.
We are far betting dealing with the big losses-death, divorce, debt, and debilitating illness-than with the daily onslaught of little losses.
Remember this: The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself.
In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting. Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational. Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?
Betting stimulates the caring glands. That is where there is so much caring at the racetrack.
Sitting and watching a game show, or betting on your lucky numbers is not the price that most of the top 1% paid to become rich
The perils, rewards, punishments, and fulfillments of an adventure must be real, or the adventure is only a shifting and heartless nightmare. If I bet I must be made to pay, or there is no poetry in betting. If I challenge I must be made to fight, or there is no poetry in challenging. If I vow to be faithful I must be cursed when I am unfaithful, or there is no fun vowing.
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.
When you talk about locker room betting, we bet on everything... It's no different than anyone else's office pool. Money changes hands in the locker room; it's whatever you want.
Betting completely on HTML5 is one of the, if not THE biggest strategic mistake we've made.
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