Risk Quotes - Page 26

• At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.

  Ian Mcewan

  Virginia, Years, Pounds

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• I get to do the most amazing things. We call it Host in Peril quite often, because people love to see me risk my life or be in danger.

  Rick Mercer

  People, Host, Most Amazing

  "'Canadian Jon Stewart' Explains Thanksgiving". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. October 9, 2010.

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• To be brutally honest, it's simple economics. If they want to come into cycling, sponsors need to know the team they are funding is clean, otherwise the risk is just too great.

  David Millar

  Team, Simple, Cycling

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• There's so many guys skiing so fast right now that you really have to be willing to take a lot of risks if you want to give yourself a chance to win. I'm prepared to do it; it's just a matter of if I can make it work.

  Bode Miller

  Winning, Giving, Guy

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• It’s actually a smarter crime because imagine if you rob a bank, or you’re dealing drugs. If you get caught you’re going to spend a lot of time in custody. But with hacking, it’s much easier to commit the crime and the risk of punishment is slim to none.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Punishment, Drug, Custody

  "Kevin Mitnick, Former Fugitive Hacker, Laments How The Game Has Changed". Interview with Gerry Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2011.

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• At the risk of sounding pedestrian, I'll be completely honest: the first thing I do in the morning is check Google News, partially because it seems sort of random and unbiased and partially because I tend to stay in hotels that don't necessarily have the fastest Internet connections.

  Moby

  Morning, Google, Connections

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• I first bought a Buffy Sainte-Marie record when I was 12, and her music has always remained with me. In the 1960s, as a political activist, Buffy's lyrics were fearless, and I'm very grateful for all the risks that she took.

  Steven Morrissey

  Grateful, Political, Fearless

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• You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.

  Emily Mortimer

  Actors, Unattractive, Boring

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• An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, War, Technology

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Attitude, Squares, Leader

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• Risk is the sort of word that is easy to discuss upfront but tough to handle when it comes time to pay the piper. There will always be some who wimp out and second-guess when the pain hits, but that is a childish reaction.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Pain, Wimps, Pay

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• Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial airliner. However, you have to remember that this is like the entire human race riding the plane - it is one of the few risks that really could wipe us all out.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Impact, Race, Flying

  "We're All Gonna Die!" by Gregg Easterbrook, www.wired.com. July 1, 2003.

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• Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence.

  Janet Napolitano

  Country, Luxury, Roots

  "Napolitano defends report on right-wing extremist groups". www.cnn.com. April 15, 2009.

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• We have at least 125 communities in Arizona at risk from wildfire, not because of review processes or litigation delays but because of a lack of federal funding on the ground to actually begin the projects.

  Janet Napolitano

  Community, Delay, Arizona

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• Nearly 100,000 sex offenders remain unregistered, and are moving freely about the country; the risk that they may strike again grows every day.

  Bob Ney

  Country, Sex, Moving

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• I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.

  Karen O

  Pain, Promise, Special

  "Karen O’s Psycho Opera Will Be A ‘Psychedelic Ride Laced With Catharsis’". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

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• We've protected thousands of people in Libya; we have not seen a single U.S. casualty; there's no risks of additional escalation. This operation is limited in time and in scope.

  Barack Obama

  People, Casualties, Scope

  News conference in the East Wing, www.nytimes.com. June 29, 2011.

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• Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.

  Yoko Ono

  Race, Fracking, Incredibles

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• Every day as Chancellor I see alerts telling me of risks around the world.

  George Osborne

  World, Around The World

  "George Osborne's speech to the Conservative party conference in full" by George Osborne, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2010.

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• Kobe Bryant is my favorite basketball player. He takes risks. He goes for the shot. He isn't cautious with whatever he does.

  Haley Joel Osment

  Inspirational, Basketball, Player

  "Haley Joel Osment: What I've Learned" by Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Twins are a high-risk pregnancy, by definition. The quieter I am, the longer I can keep them growing.

  Jane Pauley

  Pregnancy, Growing, Definitions

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• A single agency responsible for systemic risk would be accountable in a way that no regulator was in the run-up to the 2008 crisis. With access to all necessary information to monitor the markets, this regulator would have a better chance of identifying and limiting the impact of future speculative bubbles.

  Henry Paulson

  Running, Impact, Agency

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• My preference is for the Federal Reserve to be the systemic risk regulator, because the responsibility for identifying and limiting potential problems is a natural complement to its role in monetary policy.

  Henry Paulson

  Responsibility, Roles, Problem

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• My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region.

  Shimon Peres

  Struggle, Heart, Sacrifice

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• I think Barack Obama is a socialist. I think he cares for his country - don't get me wrong about that - but I think he truly misunderstands what this country was based upon, the values that America was based upon, which was free enterprise and having the ability to risk your capital and having a chance to have a return on your investment.

  Rick Perry

  Country, Thinking, America

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