Famous Quotes & Sayings

Woody Johnson

With the season officially over and our new head coach in place, it's time to set the team on a new course. The Jets will not be defined by the challenges we faced in a single season, but how we overcome them: by embracing change and taking calculated risks.

Eddie Perez

Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions.

Jane Wiedlin

I'm not really calculated enough or trained enough as a musician or songwriter to create a style in order to please people. Ultimately, I just have to do what I like to do.

Harvey Gantt

Every race I've been in, I calculated race into the equation. If you're in America, you calculate it into the equation. It is a factor. I never make it an issue. I don't run the campaign wearing it on my sleeve, but I don't run away from it, either.

Mr. Brewer has clearly calculated the timing of the dissemination of his campaign literature to deprive me of the opportunity to make a measured and meaningful response to the voters.

Because of the way this form used to work, it calculated the tax as if you had received the money over a five-year period. You would divide it into five equal parts and pay taxes on each of those parts which significantly reduced your tax bill.

Jay Cutler

I take chances (on the football field) but I think they're calculated chances. I know what I'm doing.

Daniel Boulud

For me, the food I like to make is the food I can enjoy all the time anytime. It's not too calculated or technical.

It is clear from this instance this is a calculated campaign strategy.

Greg Lynn

Without a computer, every point on a structure has to be calculated with reference to everything else. But by using a PC, I can create complex curves that don't have radii or centers.

There are a lot of people who will not make a claim even if the loss isn't their fault and is well over the deductible. What's disturbing is that you're paying a premium that is calculated to cover the risk that you actually use the policy.

We calculated that we had about 49.25 percent of what was needed. This was allocated out to nursing homes, hospitals and private facilities. We received 5,432 doses of flu vaccine to redistribute.

Chuck D.

We calculated that there's as much as 5 million gallons of that particular waste stream.

I think they were being financially cautious and I understand that, but I also think when you do social services you have a responsibility to take calculated risks, ... I don't think that you should walk away from grant money on the table.

Arlen Specter

I think that some of the voting today was calculated to impact on the next nomination.

Rory Kinnear

Without being overtly political about it, if people with severe disabilities are calculated in societal terms purely as a monetised unit, in terms of how much they cost in terms of care, you lose an important sense of who they are and the effect they have.

I was not thinking a podium was possible. I calculated I could maybe get fourth. To take six points after the problems is good.

Most definitions of a 100-year event were calculated before Ivan and Katrina. At this point, are the 100-year criteria good enough?

Merck calculated cardiovascular warnings would cost the company 50 percent of its profits through 2006.

Jorge Rodriguez

The direct consequence of having carried out transparent elections ... is a calculated attack, scorn, insults and finger-pointing.

Romesh Gunesekera

The nationalist movement supported Sinhala by suppressing Tamil; there were competing nationalisms. It was a fundamental mistake to make parallel streams in education - or a calculated political gamble. Politicians were playing with it.

Everything we do in emergency services is a calculated risk,

Alan Greenspan

At present, the Social Security trustees estimate that the unfunded liability over the indefinite future to be $10.4 trillion, ... The shortfall in Medicare is calculated at several multiples of the one in Social Security.

Corruption isn't a natural disaster. It is the cold, calculated theft of opportunity from the men, women and children who are least able to protect themselves.

This is an execution. This is a bloody, cold, calculated murder.

This is an outcome we have calculated and we found the most self evident,

There was nothing calculated or premeditated about this crime. It's simply the uncontrollable passion of a young man taken a step too far.

Somebody took a calculated effort into not just pushing something down (but) getting a saw and cutting it down.

It was a calculated risk to play them. And that cause the Newcastle need to rearrange the new group in the match.

The school district is still going to get their same dollar amount. But the tax rate to taxpayers will be slightly higher than what we calculated originally.

David Green

When I take a risk, I like it to be a calculated risk, meaning I make it as small as possible.

It's not so much a calculated security equation as an icky feeling about doing things differently.

Jen Kirkman

I'm very big into just feeling good and doing what I want; I'm not very calculated or thoughtful about my moves.