#risk

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#statesman #take #true #who #willing

The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#american idol #biggest #conform #could #ever

As a co-chair of the State's 2010 Olympics Task Force, I am working to make sure our border crossings are ready to handle the risks and benefits the Games will bring. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#benefits #border #bring #co-chair #force

I think it's a bigger risk following a part that plays up your looks than it is to try and carve out a career as an actor. ↗

— Jude Law

#bigger #career #carve #following #i

I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold. ↗

— Greg LeMond

#cent #clean #cleaner #dying #gold

If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#base #civil #civil society #enormous #harm

Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting. ↗

— Ang Lee

#beyond #careers #commercially #crowd #economically

A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#american #american actors #being #interchangeable #like

I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free. ↗

— Theresa May

#going #i #more #plots #risk

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

#am #duty #edge #fate #i