Gamble Quotes - Page 11

• I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty—everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?

  E. B. White

  Clever, Like Her, New Friends

  E. B. White (2015). “Charlotte’s Web and other classic animal stories: Charlotte’s Web, The Trumpet of the Swan, Stuart Little”, p.27, HarperCollins UK

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• You must work and do good, not be lazy and gamble, if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

  Anne Frank

  Giving, Lazy, Wish

  Anne Frank (1954). “The Diary of Anne Frank”, Pan

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• The kingdoms' people were at the mercy of the natures of those who rose to be their rulers. It was a gamble, and the current generation did not make for a winning hand.

  Kristin Cashore

  Winning, Hands, People

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It’s all a bit of a gamble, mate. That’s all I can promise you. And we never get to see what that other life would have looked like if we don’t take chances.

  Melina Marchetta

  Promise, Chance, Mates

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• If you gamble long enough, you'll always lose -- the gambler is always ruined.

  Michael Crichton

  Long, Enough, Ruined

  Michael Crichton (1997). “The Lost World”, Knopf

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• It was a very big gamble. I lost my job in France, I received a job in which was extremely uncertain, how long would IBM be interested in research, but the gamble was taken and very shortly afterwards, I had this extraordinary fortune of stopping at Harvard to do a lecture and learning about the price variation in just the right way.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Jobs, Taken, Long

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I make predictions about what I'm going to do before a fight, that makes me nervous because I've gotten so good at it until people really look for me to do it.If I say the man's going to fall in round five, like your man Henry Cooper here, he was stopped in round five but it was on a cut - it wasn't because he was out. But usually 'm on the spot with my predictions and some people really gamble and bet money on the rounds I say.

  Muhammad Ali

  Fall, Fighting, Cutting

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• I'm not a network executive, but it seems to be a time when networks take more of a gamble with higher-concept shows. And so, it's fun to be on something that's original, that's finding viewership, that's finding a great audience, and really distinguishing itself. Summer's a great place to do that.

  James Wolk

  Summer, Fun, Shows

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• I think a lot of people like to gamble, and they don't want to go to the casino to gamble. Sometimes they want to do it in the privacy of their home. They can't concentrate the way they want to in a gambling casino.

  Larry Holmes

  Home, Thinking, Gambling

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• You can decide to invade Russia at dinner, pick Waterloo for battle on a whim. It's the details, the small stuff. Its easy to gamble a million lives. Whats hard is to see how that can hurt one single person. And if you cant keep that straight, hell, you'll lose your humanity.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Hurt, Russia, History

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• It became a gamble to myself whether I was able to do the exact same film ["Funny Games"]under very different circumstances.

  Michael Haneke

  Games, Different, Able

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• Everybody knows about Las Vegas. It's a state of mind. Some people want to come with their kids and have a great weekend. Some people want to shop. Some people want to find hookers. Some people want to eat. Some people just want to gamble. It's a potpourri of decadence.

  Michael Douglas

  Kids, Weekend, Vegas

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• It's not legal to gamble but it is legal to do fantasy leagues. To me it's an outlet where people can go on, play, and make some money.

  Slaine

  Play, People, League

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• If you're addicted to gambling, you know where to go to gamble. So, if you have a condition where you're addicted to sex, you know where other that are looking for the same thing are going.

  Michael Fassbender

  Sex, Gambling, Knows

  "Michael Fassbender and Director Steve McQueen SHAME Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 29, 2011.

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• I've been giving a little gamble on the roulette and just sitting having a coffee with the fans, chatting away.

  Ricky Hatton

  Coffee, Giving, Fans

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• It is far best for the Christian never to see some things, so he will never want them. The old-fashioned Christian who will not have playing cards in his house will never learn to gamble with them. One who never sees, in movies and night clubs or elsewhere, half-clothed girls, drinking, smoking, gambling, petting, making love to many men, is likely to miss being led into that kind of life by these sirens of sin. It is the Devil's game to make people think it necessary for people to "know the ways of the world.

  John R. Rice

  Girl, Christian, Drinking

  John R. Rice (2000). “The Ruin of a Christian”, p.100, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• According to our social science, we can be or become wise in all matters of secondary importance, but we have to be resigned to utter ignorance in the most important respect: we cannot have any knowledge regarding the ultimate principles of our choices, i.e. regarding their soundness or unsoundness... We are then in the position of beings who are sane and sober when engaged in trivial business and who gamble like madmen when confronted with serious issues.

  Leo Strauss

  Wise, Ignorance, Issues

  "Natural Right and History". Book by Leo Strauss, 1953.

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• I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else.

  William Monahan

  Thinking, Gambling, Balls

  Source: collider.com

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• Intuition, if you are fashion designer is really the key to everything. I just really have a feeling it's the right moment in time to create a new business model. Obviously I have facts and figures that could back that up. It isn't a gamble; it's a calculated risk.

  Monita Rajpal

  Fashion, Keys, Feelings

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.

  Honore de Balzac

  Dream, Home, Gentleman

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• Auditions are like a gamble. Most likely you won't get the part, but if you don't go, you'll never know if you could've got it.

  Robert De Niro

  Auditions, Knows, Ifs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm a sports fan sometimes when I'm drunk. All my friends gamble on sports so whenever we watch a game, everyone's pissed off at the end! Sometimes the commentators speak so quickly, I think you've got to be on drugs to listen to them.

  Pablo Francisco

  Sports, Thinking, Games

  Source: rocksucker.co.uk

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• We can’t afford to be so worried about losing the next election that we lose the battles we owe to the next generation. The real gamble in this election is playing the same Washington game with the same Washington players and expecting a different result. And that’s a risk we can’t take.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Player, Games

  "Sen. Barack Obama's remarks". www.politico.com. December 12, 2007.

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• I had the interesting experience of having lived and worked for six years in China with Procter & Gamble, and that just changes, I think, your whole perspective in living overseas and living in a country like China.

  Steve Daines

  Country, Thinking, Years

  "New members: D-E-F", www.politico.com. January 17, 2013.

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• We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.

  William McKinley

  Money, Sacred

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