Nothing To Lose Quotes - Page 4

• I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language.

  Robert Frost

  Art, Gains, Entertainment

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.242, Harvard University Press

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• Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?

  Thomas More

  Change, Running, Long

  Thomas More (2012). “Utopia”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• Somewhere after you have few successful films, there is a fear of losing what you have got. It is very easy in the beginning, as you are a risk taker, have nothing to lose, and there is no perception about you.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Successful, Risk, Perception

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• I felt at some point that I had nothing to lose, and [laughs] maybe I was wrong. I think, you know, there's always these little autobiographical secrets behind things. I think I was really attacking my earlier self, and this kind of pretentious figure.

  Billy Collins

  Thinking, Self, Laughing

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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• Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.

  Matthew Specktor

  Book, Written, Loses

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It is difficult to wrap your mind around this intellectually and until you've had the experience, it can be difficult to understand. I tell people to give it a shot; you have nothing to lose.

  Robert Moss

  People, Giving, Mind

  "If You Want To Be A Shaman, Start At The Breakfast Table. An Interview with Dreamer Robert Moss". Interview with Krysta Gibson, nhne-pulse.org.

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• When there are no other options, people fight harder. If the choice is life or death they have nothing to lose.

  Robert Greene

  Fighting, People, Choices

  Source: dilanka.cc

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• We understand that as public figures, we are a target for people who have nothing to lose in their quest for fame and easy money, ... preposterous, slanderous and defamatory lies.

  Emilio Estefan

  Lying, People, Deceit

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• We've got nothing to lose, and there's no point losing this game

  Bobby Robson

  Soccer, Games, Losing

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• Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone's taken it, or you've lost it.

  Alethea Kontis

  Taken, Lost, Loses

  Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If Saddam's regime and survival are threatened [by invasion], he will have nothing to lose, and may use everything at his disposal... If weapons of mass destruction land on Israeli soil, killing innocent civilians, the experts I have consulted believe Israel will retaliate, and possibly with nuclear weapons... Nor can we rule out the possibility that Saddam would assault American forces with chemical or biological weapons.

  Edward Kennedy

  Believe, Mass Destruction, Israel

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• When you're poor, you have nothing to lose and be afraid of. Holding onto the dream and having nothing to lose is what helped me succeed.

  Cesar Millan

  Dream, Succeed, Holding On

  FaceBook post by Cesar Millan from Sep 27, 2013

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• Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.

  Agnes Varda

  Strong, Humor, Laughing

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• If such a thing called happiness exists in this world, it should be something which resembles the limitless nothingness. Nihility is having nothing and having nothing to lose. If that isn't "happiness", then what is?

  Tite Kubo

  World, Limitless, Should

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• It's a completely different situation right now because last year it was the time that nobody expected anything from me anything -- I had nothing to lose, basically I was starting from zero. And now I'm back in Top 5. And for me it's a different stage.

  Marat Safin

  Zero, Years, Different

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• When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Friendship, Warrior, Honor

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Second Ring of Power”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• My approach to acting now is so different -- I'm fearless because I have nothing to lose. Before [children] my identity was wrapped up in every decision -- now, I don't care.

  Jessica Alba

  Children, Decision, Fearless

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• This is the truth as I see it, my dear, Out in the wind and the rain: They who have nothing have little to fear, Nothing to lose or to gain.

  Madison Cawein

  Rain, Wind, Littles

  Madison Cawein (2017). “The Cup of Comus: Fact and Fancy”, p.19, Litres

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• Well there's nothing to lose And there's nothing to prove I'll be dancing with myself.

  Billy Idol

  Dance, Dancing, Wells

  Song: Dancing With Myself, Album: Don't Stop, 1981

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• I would have gone to law school, or gotten a psychology degree. I wasn't interested in sleeping on a futon forever. And what happened is I walked into auditions, and I had nothing to lose, because I had a backup plan.

  Julianna Margulies

  School, Sleep, Law

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• I'm now so keenly aware that I have everything to prove and nothing to lose.

  Richard Marx

  Prove, Loses

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• That "I don't give a darn" attitude is probably why I've shot so many good final rounds over the years when I started the day a few shots behind with nothing to lose. . . and maybe that's why I've shot so many bad last rounds when I was ahead and knew I couldn't afford a mistake.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Attitude, Mistake, Golf

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• Companies cannot really see beyond their current customer base. They explicitly or implicitly do things to protect their current customers. And the last person to want real change is your customer. This is why most new ideas come from small companies that have nothing to lose.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Real, Educational, Ideas

  "Online Extra: Q&A With MIT's Nicholas Negroponte". Interview with Stephen Baker, www.bloomberg.com. June 21, 2004.

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• Were still gonna do those things not because weve got nothing to lose.. were still gonna do them because.. WERE RICH BIATCH!!

  Triple H

  Wrestling, Rich, Stills

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• I have nothing to lose and think that it's a positive thing that I am young and playing on a good level.

  Caroline Wozniacki

  Thinking, Levels, Young

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

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