Risk Quotes - Page 23

• In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions.

  Julian Assange

  Moving, Fighting, Law

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I’m not only a lawyer, I have a post-doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I’ve worked in serious scholarship ... my husband and I have raised five kids, we’ve raised 23 foster children. We’ve applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.

  Michele Bachmann

  Children, Husband, Kids

  "Chris Wallace Asks Michele Bachmann: ‘Are You A Flake?’" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2011.

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• When I was a kid, I would do stupid things on my bike. I'd jump any ramp, I'd jump over people, I'd jump over things - always crashing, never hurting myself badly but always wanting to take physical risks.

  Eric Bana

  Hurt, Stupid, Kids

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• I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.

  Antonio Banderas

  Mean, Artist, Games

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• No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.

  Martha Beck

  Self Esteem, Loss, Arrows

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• I've spent my life as an airplane mechanic, pilot, aircraft manufacturer and airline CEO who never lost a life or an airplane. I am considerate of the risk we take every time we fly. I also know we need to fly and always to improve safety.

  Gordon Bethune

  Airplane, Safety, Needs

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• Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

  Theodore Bikel

  Country, Age, Left

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• I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.

  Buffalo Bill

  Running, Enemy, Would Be

  Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout and Guide: An Autobiography”

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• Unemployment in America today is too high. And part of the reason, unfortunately, is that many companies cannot fill the high-skilled jobs increasingly at risk of going overseas.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Jobs, America, Unemployment

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• With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Courage, Bravery, Audacity

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• I have no complaints about losing money I put in high-risk investments. I did some of that when I had real money; my informed choice, my measured gamble.

  Elayne Boosler

  Real, Choices, Losing

  "Occupy Wall Street — and What Charles Schwab Owes Kittens and Puppies" by By Elayne Boosler, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2011.

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• I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunity arose for me to move into it full time, I just couldn't turn it down. I just took the risk, and I just wanted to see if it would work and thankfully it did.

  Jo Brand

  Moving, Opportunity, Comedy

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• The risk of just one terrorist with just one nuclear weapon is a risk we simply cannot afford to take.

  John O. Brennan

  Nuclear, Weapons, Terrorist

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• The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now.

  David R. Brower

  Order, Dollars, Waste

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• Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you can't take a crazy risk.

  Sergei Bubka

  Crazy, Needs, Realistic

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• I didn't cry when I left free-booting, smash-and-grab papers that would have appeared to be far more natural homes for me and, at the risk of being vulgar, paid far better for my services.

  Julie Burchill

  Home, Paper, Cry

  "The long goodbye" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. December 26, 2003.

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• The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

  Edmund Burke

  Congratulations, Liberty, May

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.396, Penguin

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• I mean, I'm a conservative. I believe that, you know, if you borrow too much, you just build up debts for your children to pay off. You put pressure on interest rates. You put at risk your economy. That's the case in Britain. We're not a reserve currency, so we need to get on and deal with this issue.

  David Cameron

  Children, Believe, Mean

  "British Prime Minister David Cameron Speaks to ABC's Diane Sawyer". abcnews.go.com. July 20, 2010.

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• After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

  Albert Camus

  Death, Running, Murder

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• In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.

  Benjamin Carson

  Play, Giving, Roles

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• A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Men, Challenges, Doe

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.5, Regnery Publishing

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• Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.

  Cesar Chavez

  Environmental, Benefits, Corporations

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• The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

  Winston Churchill

  Business, Being Sad, Length

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• No crime is so great as daring to excel.

  Winston Churchill

  Hypocrisy, Crime, Daring

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• The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Positive, Sometimes, Reckless

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