Risky Business Quotes

• Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Family, Children

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.

  Colin Powell

  Life, Happy Valentines Day, Giving

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• Freedom brings opportunity, opportunity makes your future.

  Curtis Armstrong

  Opportunity, Your Future, Our Future

  "Fictional character: Miles Dalby". "Risky Business", www.imdb.com. 1983.

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• My name is Joel Goodson. I deal in human fulfillment. I grossed over eight thousand dollars in one night.

  Tom Cruise

  Money, Night, Names

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• Investing isn’t risky; not being in control is risky.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Investing

  Twitter post from May 24, 2013

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• It seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four letter word.

  Tom Cruise

  Would Be, Four, Letters

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• If you don't invest in risk management, it doesn't matter what business you're in, it's a risky business.

  Gary Cohn

  Risk, Matter, Management

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• I know. I'm Darren. I don't know what I'm doing here.

  Darren Criss

  Darren, Knows, Hurrying

  Details Magazine Interview, January 11, 2012.

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• If we die, we want people to accept it. We are 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

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  "Gemini : A Personal Account of Man's Venture Into Space". Book by Virgil I. Grissom, 1968.

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• It's always a risky business inviting somebody on stage. You never know what they're going to do. I try to avoid letting people join me onstage because it can be very distracting, and overly theatrical.

  Nick Cave

  People, Trying, Stage

  "Nick Cave on the Evolution of His Music". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. January 28, 2014.

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• The choice to worry about why we are doing something more than how we do something is risky business.

  Peter Block

  Worry, Choices

  Peter Block (2003). “The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters”, p.17, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.

  Cate Blanchett

  Cities, Planning

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• A good portion of my work with Tangerine Dream at the time involved film music, and I remember approaching it as any 23-year-old would - without much fear or respect. Also, Tangerine Dream was typically asked to deliver a monochromatic kind of score, the electronic-analog trademark sound that TD had become famous for following landmark films such as Sorcerer [Universal, 1977], Thief [MGM, 1981], and Risky Business [Warner Brothers, 1983].

  Paul Haslinger

  Dream, Brother, Years

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• Acting is one of the most risky businesses you could ever be in. You literally do not know where your next paycheck will come from.

  Kat Dennings

  Acting, Next, Paychecks

  "Kat Dennings Talks 2 BROKE GIRLS, RENEE and the THOR Sequel". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 14, 2011.

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• I've made some great movies. 'Risky Business' still stands up. It's timeless. They study that film in film school.

  Rebecca De Mornay

  School, Study, Film

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• Because to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business.

  J. K. Rowling

  Moving, Thinking, Soul

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• Let's face it, space is a risky business. I always considered every launch a barely controlled explosion.

  Aaron Cohen

  Space, Faces, Explosions

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• I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.

  David Walliams

  Air, Tv Shows, Risk

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's often a distressing disconnect between the good words we speak and the way we live our lives. In personal relations and politics, the mass media, the academy and organized religion, our good words tend to float away even as they leave our lips, ascending to an altitude where they neither reflect nor connect with the human condition. We long for words like love, truth, and justice to become flesh and dwell among us. But in our violent world, it's risky business to wrap our frail flesh around words like those, and we don't like the odds.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Odds, Media, Like Love

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• It's a risky business being a cyclist in the UK, there are a lot of people who really dislike us. It's the Jeremy Clarkson influence - we're hated on the roads. We just hope people realise we are just flesh and bones on two wheels.

  Victoria Pendleton

  Cycling, Two, People

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• If we die, do not mourn for us. This is a risky business we're in, and we accept those risks. The space program is too valuable to this country to be halted for too long if a disaster should ever happen.

  Gus Grissom

  Country, Business, Acceptance

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• When I want to feel sexy, I like to dance-even if I'm at home by myself in my knee-high socks sliding there like 'Risky Business'… my sisters and I, if one of us starts, we're all there in front of the mirror, dancing, and it's just obnoxious. I feel sexy when I do that.

  AnnaLynne McCord

  Sexy, Home, Mirrors

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• Big dreams are risky business. The psyche can be fiendish, puckish, exalted, imperious, tender, sardonic, faithful, pestilential--whatever rivets our attention upon the task of psychic growth. It is not so hard to find at least a little sympathy for theologian Martin Luther, who prayed to God not to send him any dreams at all, fearful he could not distinguish between those of divine origin and those sent by the Devil.

  Marc Ian Barasch

  Dream, Psychics, Faithful

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