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• When I became leader, I made very clear I was not going to choose the easy life. I have always taken risks. I don't like comfort-zone politics.

  Nick Clegg

  Taken, Leader, Comfort

  "Nick Clegg takes thorny path out of the Rose Garden". Interview with Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2012.

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• I think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves, 'How do we calculate the risk?' And sometimes we don't calculate it correctly; we either overstate it or understate it.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Asking, Sometimes

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• Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.

  J. Cole

  Song, Taken, Hot

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• To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Elements, Film, Wells

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• When that happens - when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute - very often what you get it something with those qualities that make it age well with the public.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Taken, Age, Quality

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• When you turn your team upside down and try to figure out what the culture of the team is, you take the greatest risk a team can take.

  Mark Cuban

  Team, Trying, Culture

  "Lets Talk Mavs #MFFL" by Mark Cuban, www.businessinsider.com. August 3, 2013.

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• I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.

  Rachel Cusk

  Children, Writing, Connections

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• The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

  Mitch Daniels

  Jobs, Ambition, Optimism

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• Even though I'm big on recipes, I love to make up my own dishes and when you take a risk in the kitchen, you learn a lot about food!

  Nina Dobrev

  Kitchen, Recipes, Dishes

  "Exclusive Interview With Nina Dobrev!". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. January 23, 2012.

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• I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

  Drake

  Care, Should, Exciting

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• It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.

  John Eldredge

  Men, People, Towers

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• Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.

  Gloria Estefan

  Artist, People, Doe

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• The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Country, Years, Europe

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• You know, my goal, once I leave the music business, is like, 'Man, Lupe didn't lead us astray.' It comes directly from Islam: leading people astray is the worst thing you could do. Especially in perpetuity; like, your music continues to go on and live without you. That risk is too great for me; I'm gonna keep it positive.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Men, People, Goal

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• You take unacceptable risk, you have to be prepared to face the consequence.

  Carly Fiorina

  Faces, Be Prepared, Consequence

  "CNBC's Larry Kudlow speaks with Carly Fiorina, former HP CEO, and Senator John McCain today". "The Kudlow Report" with Larry Kudlow, www.cnbc.com. June 9, 2010.

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• At this stage in my career, I don't have to take any big risks. You want to take a calculated risk, not one that leads to people saying 'yes, but there was that one time when she made that big mistake.' It's always a shame when that happens, especially if you've gotten by for decades without anything hugely tragic.

  Renee Fleming

  Mistake, Careers, People

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• Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.

  Jane Fonda

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children

  "Fostering Success" by Jane Fonda, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 29, 2009.

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• Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.

  Michael J. Fox

  Teenager, Parent, Brain

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• Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total.

  Bobby Jindal

  Oysters, Louisiana, Economy

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• I think the risks that people see of terrorism are incredibly important but we are very confident we have got the right people on it and the risks have been minimised.

  Boris Johnson

  Thinking, People, Important

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• There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Focus, Looks, Isolation

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• Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Military, Optimistic, Average

  "Bias, Blindness and How We Truly Think (Part 1): Daniel Kahneman". www.bloomberg.com. October 25, 2011.

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• My decision to end my marriage was such a risk to lose ratings and lose my fan base. I had to take that risk for my inner peace and to be happy with myself.

  Kim Kardashian

  Life, Success, Decision

  "Kim Kardashian Really Did Open Up to Oprah About Everything!" by Lauren Brown, www.glamour.com. June 17, 2012.

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• As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.

  Ben Kingsley

  Actors, Possibility, Autonomy

  "I can do anything" by Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. January 02, 2001.

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• Introverts listen better, they assess risks more carefully, they can be wiser managers. It's not for nothing that the Silicon Valley billionaires are so often the retiring types.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Retirement, Valleys, Introvert

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