America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.
Larry Elder
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This is the problem with the world today: Nobody wants to take risks, to risk being themselves.
Giorgio Armani
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A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.
Christopher Hitchens
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We are all vulnerable to the tendency to overestimate the likelihood of vivid, cognitively available risks rather than statistically likelier, but less salient, risks.
Karl Iagnemma
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Everyone is exposed to economic risks of some kind.
George McGovern
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The thing about taking risks is, if it's really a risk, you really can fail. It's only a pretend risk if you really can't fail.
Connie Britton
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As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.
Imran Amed
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Rihanna takes risks, and I love a woman who takes risks. It just goes to show you have your own mind and your own way of thinking.
Future
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Like so many new moms, I felt anxiety over the impending birth of my daughter. However, most of the anxiety I felt was around the idea of raising a child. I wasn't focused on potential risks to my health or hers that could occur during the actual birth.
Christy Turlington
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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
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Brexit is the other face of the refugee crisis - tensions that lead to stasis, external risks that lead to asymmetric shocks.
Emmanuel Macron
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The idea that the EU is somehow the guarantor of peace on the continent - that is in itself rash, in my view, and risks undermining the vital role of Nato.
Boris Johnson
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You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.
Fareed Zakaria
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Markets work when people can evaluate the prices and risks of different products, then pick the ones that work best for them. But when the terms of the deal are hidden, competition doesn't work. And customers aren't the only ones who are hurt.
Elizabeth Warren
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There are lots of risks, but without risks, there's no reward. I think the reward is bigger than the risk.
Brock Lesnar
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I want to reduce my risks as much as possible and hopefully be able to go to the World Cup fit, ready and healthy.
Abby Wambach
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I try to master every facet of a character in order to build a safety net for myself, so I can go on to take more risks to create someone really distinct.
Jim Parsons
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The systematic experimental study of reproducible errors of human reasoning, and what these errors reveal about underlying mental processes, is known as the heuristics and biases program in cognitive psychology. This program has made discoveries highly relevant to assessors of global catastrophic risks.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Knowing your genetic health risks will help you make better decisions.
Anne Wojcicki
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The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.
Eddie Rickenbacker
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Our audience for SCTV was older than today's moviegoers, and with the cost of making movies being what it is today, it's hard for the studios to take the kind of risks we took.
John Candy
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I love working with family and friends because, as an actor, it makes my job easy. I feel comfortable with all of these people, and I feel more willing to take risks.
Dave Franco
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Purposefully exposing young people to increased risks of major brain problems - even death - for sport is surely even more ethically complicated than sending young people into this same neurological danger zone as soldiers.
Alice Dreger
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I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.
Bai Ling
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