Gamble Quotes - Page 9

• The prospect of getting rich is highly motivating, and few people get rich without taking a gamble.

  Peter L. Bernstein

  People, Rich, Get Rich

  Peter L. Bernstein (2012). “Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk”, p.32, John Wiley & Sons

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• I'm not going to freeze my body. One life is enough for me. Some people take this gamble. That someone will be able to bring them back in the future. I'm not going to do it.

  Dolph Lundgren

  People, Body, Able

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of the word, that means they are at liberty to foul up their lives as much as make something grand of them. That's a gamble we all take. That's the risk of liberty. Nobody wants others to screw up their lives, but each must be free to do so for themselves.

  Joel Miller

  Meaningful, People, Risk

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• Men will gamble and plot and fight and fall, all for the winning of a trophy. A woman's heart, a piece of land, a kingdom, a lordship, a contract, a ship, an egg -- it hardly matters the which or the what, as soon as it is seen to be desired by one, another will make a prize of it.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Fall, Heart, Fighting

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• The Obama 'stimulus' plan is a $1 trillion dollar gamble more suited to Las Vegas than Washington.

  Cal Thomas

  Vegas, Dollars, Stimulus

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• With the development of the web everything is instantaneous. Everything is about how quick you can get it. So with online gambling you don't have to travel to Vegas, Atlantic City, or anywhere in the world to gamble.

  Brad Furman

  Vegas, Gambling, Cities

  Source: collider.com

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• All perception is a gamble.

  Edmund Husserl

  Perception

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• But if you stagnate, the growth is over. I have done many comedy films. Success of films like Partner, Singh is Kinng gets you to a very wide audience reach. But for greater gains, you need to take greater gambles. If it works, you get respect and recognition.

  Katrina Kaif

  Growth, Needs, Done

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• You have to love a town where you can both smoke and gamble in a pharmacy.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Towns, Pharmacy, Smoke

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “The Nasty Bits: Collected Cuts, Useable Trim, Scraps and Bones”, p.21, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• What I desire most of you, my son, is never to gamble or swear. These are baneful vices.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  War, Son, Desire

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• I'm a Sagittarian, see, I can't be fenced in. I been living in Las Vegas, greatest city in the world. I look out my window for 100 miles. In Vegas, there's nothing to do but gamble, drink or have sex. I have two of 'em.

  Redd Foxx

  Sex, Vegas, Cities

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

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• I don't return fruit. Fruit's a gamble. I know that going in.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Fruit, Return, Knows

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• This mandate that I seek is about continuity and sustainability against disruption and stagnation, about moving forward versus regressing. We have to safeguard what we have already achieved. We cannot put at risk what we have, we cannot gamble away our future.

  Najib Razak

  Moving, Risk, Sustainability

  "Malaysian PM promises more cash, tougher steps to combat graft in election sweeteners". www.foxnews.com. April 6, 2013.

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• Gambling is so pervasive in Nevada that maybe the state should just go the whole hog. There'd be gum machines that dispensed chewing tobacco if you lost. You could gamble for the toilet paper in public bathroom stalls. And fill out Keno cards in an attempt to win cancer therapy at the hospital.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Cancer, Winning, Gambling

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• I drink to excess, I gamble to excess, but everyone knows it, so it's not a big deal.

  Oscar Goodman

  Excess, Drink, Bigs

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• The recovery of the banks is what happens when you reduce competition, lend money to them at zero interest rates, allow them to gamble. That particular style of restoration actually inhibits the economic recovery.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Zero, Recovery, Competition

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. May 27, 2011.

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• I've got a 15-year old son and a 10-year old daughter, and if they were going to do one of the following things: be an alcoholic; be a drug offender; beat their wife or husband; or gamble. I hope they would gamble.

  Pete Rose

  Daughter, Husband, Son

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• The phone rings and there's another Broadway show or another TV series or a movie. That's the gamble you take.

  Jamie Farr

  Phones, Tvs, Broadway

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• ... Wild Bill had his faults, grievous ones, perhaps ... He would get drunk, gamble, and indulge in the general licentiousness characteristic of the border in the early days, yet even when full of the vile libel of the name of whiskey which was dealt over the bars at exorbitant prices, he was gentle as a child, unless aroused to anger by intended insults. ... He was loyal in his friendship, generous to a fault, and invariably espoused the cause of the weaker against the stronger one in a quarrel.

  Jack Crawford

  Children, Names, Indulge In

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• Don't decide that you're going to be a writer or musician and just expect it to happen because it's a big gamble and a lot less predictable than a conventional job. But you do increase the likelihood of success by working as hard as you can and holding yourself to the highest standard you can muster.

  Max Bemis

  Jobs, Musician, Increase

  Source: blog.seagate.com

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• I understand the horrors of having no insurance, but, believe me, eight hours of sleep and good meals are NOT going to prevent you from getting sick. Don't gamble with your life; it's a stupid bet.

  Michael Specter

  Stupid, Believe, Sleep

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• When you're going to try and have people talk in a room and actually reflect life as we know it and have people recognize themselves and their own street and their own house in it, well then you're aiming for the high country and it's a much bigger gamble. You can interview all the marketing gurus and the people in charge of, you know, the people you gotta fight with in order to get your seats here, and they all talk about release dates and counterprogramming. At the end of the day, it's gotta be a good movie.

  Tom Hanks

  Country, Fighting, Release Date

  "Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts LARRY CROWNE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 28, 2011.

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• If a person realized that everything people call happiness, love and joy was just a miscalculation based on a false premise, he'd feel a horrible emptiness inside. The only thing that could rouse him from his paralysis would be to gamble with his own face and the face of others. The person capable of that would be permitted anything.

  Vladimir Bartol

  People, Joy, Would Be

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• To suppose that safety-first consists in having a small gamble in a large number of different companies where I have no information to reach a good judgment, as compared with a substantial stake in a company where one's information is adequate, strikes me as a travesty of investment policy.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Numbers, Safety, Different

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• Women, because they are not generally the principal breadwinners, can be perhaps most useful as the trail blazers, working along the bypaths, doing the unusual job that men cannot afford to gamble on.

  Betty Friedan

  Jobs, Men, Unusual

  betty friedan (1963). “the year's most controversial bestseller the feminine mystique”

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