Risk Quotes - Page 25

• Kids whose puberty begins too soon face not just psychological risks, but physical ones too, with an increased likelihood of cancer, as well as skeletal changes that could prevent them from attaining their full adult height.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Cancer, Kids, Adults

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• As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what's known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Sports, Football, Suicide

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• Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and to risk beauty is to risk desirability, and to risk desirability is to risk entitlement to sexuality and love and self-esteem.

  Caroline Knapp

  Self Esteem, Size, And Love

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• Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.

  Ed Koch

  Jail, Worry, Important

  "I'm Right, You're Wrong: Ed Koch Vs. Al D'Amato". nymag.com.

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• If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Running, Discovery, Things In Life

  Charles Krauthammer (1985). “Cutting edges: making sense of the eighties”, Random House (NY)

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• Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.

  Charles Krauthammer

  War, Iraq, Gains

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• I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will only grow with time.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Believe, School, Hussein

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• To be political means to speak out, to risk being called 'catty', or worse. I don't hear men worrying about whether they may be right or not. They enjoy the fight, whether it is with words or fists. Women still tend to shy away from controversy, to be uncomfortable with competition.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Mean, Fighting, Men

  "In Politics, What Works For A Man Still Does Not Work For A Woman" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2009.

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• You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros' pocket money. It's fundamentally ridiculous.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Pension Plans, Acting, Pockets

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• Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.

  Jacques Lacan

  Running, Aggravation, Purpose

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• Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.

  Steve Lacy

  Play, Interesting, Too Much

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• The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

  Adam Lambert

  Taken, Idols, Work Out

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• Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.

  Ang Lee

  Stars, Careers, Acting

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• Life is full of risks anyway; why not take them?

  Lindsay Lohan

  Inspirational, Success, Humor

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

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• I like crazy people, especially those who don't see the risk.

  John Lydon

  Crazy, People, Crazy People

  John Lydon, Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman (2014). “Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs”, p.51, Picador

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• You don't need a big close, as many sales reps believe. You risk losing your customer when you save all the good stuff for the end. Keep the customer actively involved throughout your presentation, and watch your results improve.

  Harvey Mackay

  Believe, Watches, Needs

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• Growing up in Alaska, they don't really teach you to swim there. I learned to swim just a few summers ago with Olympic gold medalist Amanda Beard. She did great, and right after that I went to get scuba certified. I had fun with it. I didn't really get scared, but some people thought that was a risk.

  Holly Madison

  Summer, Growing Up, Fun

  "Interview: Oregon's own reality star Holly Madison talks about 'Dancing'". Interview with Jake Ten Pas, www.oregonlive.com. March 20, 2009.

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• Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Musical, Benefits, Reap

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• Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.

  Jose Marti

  Ideas, Giving, Glory

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• The cable makers are the ones who are willing to take risks and do something original and push the envelope some.

  George R. R. Martin

  Envelopes, Pushing The Envelope, Makers

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

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• When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was.

  Steve Martin

  Real, Heart, College

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• I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free.

  Theresa May

  Plot, Succeed, Terrorist

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

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• Starting with the highest-risk countries, and focusing on the route to Britain that is widely abused, student visas, we will increase the number of interviews to considerably more than 100,000, starting next financial year. From there, we will extend the interviewing programme further across all routes to Britain, wherever the evidence takes us.

  Theresa May

  Country, Years, Numbers

  "100,000 students coming to UK face immigration interviews" by Nicholas Watt, Dan Milmo, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2012.

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• Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?

  Mitch McConnell

  Country, Believe, Government

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• Everyone is exposed to economic risks of some kind.

  George McGovern

  Kind, Economic, Exposed

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