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All space exploration is risky. As an astronaut, I had to decide each and every time I went to space whether or not to risk my life for the mission.John M. Grunsfeld
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Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.Josh Billings
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Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.Denis Waitley
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There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it.Max Lucado
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I have 18 tattoos. My tattoos have kind of become their own person. Everybody does stories on them. It is risky to be successful in the fashion industry and to tat your body up, but I figured, the way that I made my career and the way that I am successful is because I have always been myself.Jessica White
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You read things, and they come to you, and if they speak to you at the moment and there's a voice in you that says, 'I don't know, that's risky,' or 'That's challenging,' then do it. Run at it and tackle it. And if it's bad, it's bad. You're gonna get over it.Corey Hawkins
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Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time.Vint Cerf
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The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story. - Chuck Palahniuk
The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.Chuck Palahniuk
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The subject matter of the show, 'Cabaret,' was more than risky. And the emcee I would be playing didn't have a single line of dialogue. Still, it was full of possibilities, and it was mine.Joel Grey
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I like the mode of business of aviation. It's a risky business with difficulties which you can fill with innovative ideas and different things.Niki Lauda
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When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street.Wentworth Miller
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The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations?Tina Brown
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I propose that matchmaking should be approached like a corporate business venture. It can be risky, but I have discovered that the potential profits from acquisitions and mergers cannot be underestimated.Robert Rinder
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I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.Frank Ocean
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As we approach each of the great social challenges of our time we must acknowledge that old thinking will not provide the new solutions we need. These solutions will be uncomfortable, hard to sell and risky to execute. But the cost of not doing so is even greater.Simon Mainwaring
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Not so long ago, companies that borrowed lots of money were considered risky, appropriate only for daredevil stock pickers. Those with lots of cash on hand and few outstanding debts might be dull stocks, but they were at least safe bets for bondholders.Charles Duhigg
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I'm an active author: I travel to give readings and talks, although I know it's risky.Felice Picano
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People don't think music to be a reliable source of income or career, which I will agree, in a way, because Bollywood is a very risky place to be in.Armaan Malik
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It's hard when you have a lot of naysayers to know when they might be right or when to ignore them and go with your gut and do something that may seem risky.Kathryn Minshew
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There was a time when a company could not sell its shares to the public unless its revenues were growing and it was turning a profit. Companies that lost money were deemed too risky for public investors.Daniel Lyons
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A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.Brad Pitt
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If we die, we want people to accept it. We're in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.Gus Grissom
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I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I've got kids and responsibilities, so I can't be my own test pilot. That wouldn't be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it's a sensible thing to do.Elon Musk
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Scientists surely have a special responsibility. It is their ideas that form the basis of new technology. They should not be indifferent to the fruits of their ideas. They should forgo experiments that are risky or unethical.Martin Rees
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I think people are getting a little bit more risky and that's always when great pop music is born. No fear of looking raunchy, or that you're gonna make people upset.Chappell Roan
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Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.Ron Wyden
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Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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That President Mohammad Khatami's policies have been blocked is the bitterest incident in the contemporary Iranian history. This means that the wishes of millions of people who voted for Khatami and called for freedom and justice have been ignored... Why should cultural activities and journalism be so risky in Iran?Abdolkarim Soroush
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The challenge is that the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. And crazy ideas are very risky to attempt.Peter Diamandis
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I always look for projects that are risky and ones that want to do something unique. If audiences don't like it, you feel good knowing that you were brave enough to do something original. If they do like it, you feel like everyone is rewarded, because we all got to see something new.Cameron Britton
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The times of COVID are extremely risky.Neelam Kothari
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The rapid growth of prenatal testing has had some undeniably positive effects: A woman who knows she will bear a child with a handicap can plan to deliver in a hospital equipped for risky births. And many couples prefer the opportunity to prepare psychologically for the work of raising a disabled child.Tucker Carlson
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Time and again, players lose because they make rash decisions. Therefore, you always have to remind yourself - don't hurry. Embarking on a risky combination that cannot be calculated to the end is certainly not the right thing to do.Daniel Naroditsky
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In Irish law, busking is considered vagrancy - you can be arrested for it. It's risky asking people for money in public. So it's not like it's a high-art job. And people who do it as a high-art job make very little money.Glen Hansard
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Big banks have long had private equity divisions that put up capital for deals too complex or risky for individual shareholders to finance.Alex Berenson
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A hardware startup with no funding is a risky venture.Brendan Iribe
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I think funding risky projects is very important.Roderick MacKinnon
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I love theatre because of the audience. It feels risky. But I love film because it travels to the whole world. To an audience I don't see.Sarita Choudhury
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Energy is one of the most precious battlefield resources, but it is risky and expensive to deliver in combat zones.Tammy Duckworth
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I didn't really discover 'Risky Business' until later in life because I was so young when it came out.Cobie Smulders
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I like risky parts - abrasive characters the audience won't necessarily like.Tim Curry
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The risk for me would be in not taking one - that's the only thing that's really risky for me. - Kanye West
The risk for me would be in not taking one - that's the only thing that's really risky for me.Kanye West
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I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.Hunter S. Thompson
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Flying in space is risky. It will never be safe, and the best thing we can do is manage those risks. It's important for people, for human beings, to be in space because they're adaptable and because they're not pre-programmed software that can go off and do tasks that are appropriate for machines.Alan G. Poindexter
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I don't know driving in another way which isn't risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other's.Ayrton Senna
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Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.Andrew Weil
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There's a number of places I've wanted to go but it's been determined too risky or that I'm relatively well-known, and therefore it might not be wise for me to pop up in this place.Anderson Cooper
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Following our inner guidance may feel risky and frightening at first, because we are no longer playing it safe, doing what we 'should' do, pleasing others, following rules, or deferring to outside authority.Shakti Gawain
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It seems that the small movies are a little more risky and cutting-edge. You've got your big commerce and you've got your small films that you're more passionate about.Robert Patrick
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That is what I want: I want a better Saudi Arabia. I don't see myself as an opposition. I'm not calling for the overthrow of the regime, because I know it's not possible and is too risky, and there is no one to overthrow the regime. I'm just calling for reform of the regime.Jamal Khashoggi
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I put myself and my company at the C.I.A.'s disposal for some very risky missions. But when it became politically expedient to do so, someone threw me under the bus.Erik Prince
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Because of my own experience with market fluctuation, I recognize the great risks one takes on investments. This converts the Social Security safety net into a risky proposition many cannot afford to take.Grace Napolitano
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Having small children with a dog that you don't know anything about can be risky.Kyle Richards
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However, the Administration's plan to privatize Social Security will undermine retirement security for all Americans by cutting guaranteed benefits by more than 40 percent, and risky private accounts won't make up for the loss of benefits for millions of Americans.Ruben Hinojosa
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With the discovery of vast new North American energy resources - thanks to the application of proven technologies like hydraulic fracturing and commonsense regulatory processes on non-federal lands - the U.S. government should no longer be in the business of spending taxpayer dollars on risky, exotic energy projects.Fred Upton
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I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.Questlove
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I don't think me walking away from modeling was scary for me. In hindsight, I think it was very risky, when you talk about risk. Because it paid the bills.Tyra Banks
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In my misspent youth, I was risky.Jason Statham
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In future also, we would like to back films that can be considered slightly risky since they don't have song and dance.Anushka Sharma
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Ground operations are inherently very risky in Yemen. The two previous JSOC raids in Yemen were both in 2014.Peter Bergen
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