Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ann Macbeth

Film is the most expensive, highest risk industry in the world.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

Adam Lambert

Life is all about taking risk to get what you want.

Adam Hochschild

I can certainly sympathize with writers who don't want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.

Aldous Huxley

We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.

We won't risk him. That's the most important thing,

Aamir Khan

I do what I feel is right. I do not fear to walk on a new path and take risk.

A. R. Ammons

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.

Adrienne Rich

[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who - for whatever reasons - are less conscious of what they are living through. It is as though the risks of the poet's existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.

There is a lot of risk in the tech sector.

I'm a little more worried now. The risk is higher.

Kevin Harvick

I'm all for taking chances. But you have to make sure you don't get caught. You have to know if the risk is worth the penalty.

Greg Olsen

I don't view it as a risk at all.

Jorge Cantu

I didn't want to risk it. I'm sure it would have been a risk if I was to keep playing. Let it heal. ...I'll be back.

Cam Gigandet

I want to try new things and put myself out there and take some risks.

Cameron Diaz

Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.

Burt Rutan

NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation.

Celia Green

Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences.

Cesar Chavez

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.

Ajay Devgan

I don't see the risk, I enjoy performing stunts, and I don't get scared.

Brenda Blethyn

At the risk of sounding naff, it is having hope fulfilled

Bruce Kovner

Novice Traders trade 5 to 10 times too big. They are taking 5 to 10% risks on a trade they should be taking 1 to 2 percent risks.

Edward Norton

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

Edward Snowden

You will never be completely free from risk, if you're free. The only time you can be free from risk is when you're in prison.

We understand the risk from this object, and while it's small, it's not zero,

Alastair Reynolds

Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves.

Albert Ellis

The emotionally sound person should be able to take risks, to ask himself what he really would like to do in life, and then to try to do this, even though he has to risk defeat or failure. He should be adventurous (though not necessarily foolhardy); be willing to try almost anything once, just to see how he likes it; and look forward to some breaks in his usual life routines.

Albert Camus

There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.

Annie Lennox

I'm not a risk taker physically. I just have no interest in swinging myself off a mountaintop or parachute gliding or skiing down a totally vertical drop. These things don't interest me in the slightest, but I get so caught up in the color or the texture of the sounds of something. That's so funny to me.

Clint Eastwood

None of the pictures I take a risk in cost a lot, so it doesn't take much for them to turn a profit. We don't deal in big budgets. We know what we want and we shoot it and we don't waste anything. I never understand these films that cost twenty, thirty million dollars when they could be made for half that. Maybe it's because no one cares. We care.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction

Dan Glickman

Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before.

Amanda Seyfried

The risk for me has to do with the nudity aspects. I'm an American actress in mainstream movies, and I would like to always be able to do them. For some reason, nudity is perceived differently here than it is elsewhere, and I didn't want to lose any American audience that I was building.