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I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind.
Steve Allen
Mind
Lost
Mental
Bets
Make
How
Just
Heavy
Gambler
Used
Now
If you were placing bets on which author would write the tenderest, most moving book about fatherhood, Philip Roth would probably come in at the bottom of the list.
Ben Dolnick
You
Book
Philip
Fatherhood
Would
About
Bets
Write
Bottom
Come
Most
Were
Author
List
Which
Placing
Moving
Roth
I've been trying to watch my weight a bit, but when I come to Las Vegas, all bets are off. I get enough healthy food in L.A. where the food is the size of a quarter and costs $40 - when I'm in Vegas, I want a steak!
Billy Gardell
Food
Healthy
Enough
Bit
Bets
Steak
Costs
Vegas
Weight
Come
Quarter
Been
Off
Get
Trying
Where
Size
Want
Las Vegas
Watch
I live in New York and got a call from my agent saying there was this new role on 'Mad Men,' it might be recurring and they're seeing people tomorrow. I said, 'OK, this is one of those things where you hedge your bets, use your miles and get on a plane.' I flew out Tuesday morning and got the job on a Wednesday.
Cara Buono
Saying
Morning
You
People
Tomorrow
Job
Men
Live
Those
OK
Mad
Mad Men
Out
Seeing
Bets
Wednesday
Recurring
New
Call
Said
Got
Role
Get
York
Tuesday
New York
Where
Hedge
Might
Plane
Agent
Flew
Use
Your
Miles
Things
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
Money
Long
Few
Appropriate
Considered
Those
Daredevil
Borrowed
Cash
Bets
Only
Risky
Outstanding
Safe
Least
Were
Dull
Hand
Lots
Stock
Debts
Stocks
Might
Companies
In No Limit hold'em tournaments, size your bets based on your opponent's skill level. You can cut corners by betting wisely - save a little here and make a little extra there.
Daniel Negreanu
You
Extra
Corners
No Limit
Bets
Tournaments
Wisely
Betting
Make
Limit
Opponent
Size
Little
Cut
Skill
Your
Based
Level
Here
Save
Limit Hold'em is the game for you if you bore easily and crave fast action. Conversely, in No Limit, the game will often slow to a halt when someone is faced with a big decision. That's uncommon in Limit games because all-in bets are rare.
Daniel Negreanu
You
Game
Decision
Will
Rare
Slow
Big
Action
Easily
Bore
Faced
Someone
No Limit
Bets
Uncommon
Because
Limit
Halt
Often
Crave
Games
Fast
The best restraint is old-fashioned market discipline, in which financial traders know that they, personally, will lose a ton of money if they take risky bets that don't pan out.
David Ignatius
Best
Money
Financial
Discipline
Will
Lose
Market
Out
Restraint
Bets
Risky
Take
Know
Which
Personally
Old-Fashioned
Ton
Pan
A syndicate is a group that has gotten together to pool their money so they can cover more contingencies. If I come to track with, say, $200, and I join a syndicate of 20 people, each of whom can bet $200, we can spread our bets, and that gives us a better chance of winning.
David Milch
Together
People
Money
Better
Pool
Group
Our
Syndicate
Say
Bet
Bets
More
Gives
Better Chance
Winning
Join
Come
Track
Spread
Gotten
Cover
Us
Each
Whom
Chance
If there's ever an example of the importance of making bold bets and focusing on what you love, it's Twitter.
Dick Costolo
Love
You
Example
Twitter
Focusing
Bets
Importance
Making
What You Love
Bold
Ever
Right before I decided to come out, I went on a spiritual retreat called 'Changing the Inner Dialogue of Your Subconscious Mind.' I'd never been to anything like it before, and all my friends were taking bets on how long I'd last with no TV, no radio, no phone. But for me that was the beginning of paying attention to all the little things.
Ellen DeGeneres
Spiritual
Me
Little Things
Phone
Mind
Long
Subconscious
Before
Beginning
Changing
All My Friends
Out
TV
Bets
Never
Taking
Attention
Come
Like
Retreat
How
Dialogue
Subconscious Mind
Were
Been
Friends
Anything
Decided
Little
Your
Paying
Radio
Right
Things
Inner
Last
The problem that people don't understand is that active managers, almost by definition, have to be poorly diversified. Otherwise, they're not really active. They have to make bets. What that means is there's a huge dispersion of outcomes that are totally consistent with just chance. There's no skill involved it. It's just good luck or bad luck.
Eugene Fama
Good
People
Bad Luck
Problem
Luck
Active
Otherwise
Good Luck
Consistent
Definition
Bad
Outcomes
Totally
Bets
Diversified
Almost
Involved
Make
Understand
Huge
Managers
Just
Poorly
Really
Skill
Means
Chance
I like to think of the world as a sort of a casino, except the house doesn't have the advantage. If you're smart, you have an advantage. It behooves you to place a lot of bets.
Evan Williams
You
World
Casino
Smart
Think
Bets
Except
Advantage
Like
House
Sort
Lot
Place
I think what's happening with book advances is something that most of the world just doesn't fully appreciate, especially when it comes to nonfiction, because writing a book of investigative journalism is an expensive endeavor, and the system works best if you have publishers making bets on authors.
Franklin Foer
Best
You
Book
Writing
World
Endeavor
Think
System
Something
Bets
Investigative
Advances
Journalism
Most
Because
Making
Nonfiction
Authors
Just
Expensive
Happening
Fully
Works
Publishers
Appreciate
Starting a company, your success is going to be very dependent on how you adapt. You're going to make decisions, you're going to make bets; most of them are going to turn out to be wrong.
Jeremy Stoppelman
Success
You
Out
Bets
Wrong
Most
Make
How
Very
Going
Dependent
Decisions
Them
Turn
Success Is
Your
Company
Starting
Adapt
We need financial regulation that allows businesses and the banks they use to have access to the tools that help keep prices of consumer goods - like groceries and home heating oil - steady, while ensuring that the taxpayers are never again on the hook for the types of wild bets that helped crash the economy in 2008.
Jim Himes
Home
Financial
Wild
Tools
Types
Hook
Ensuring
Steady
Bets
Prices
Consumer
Never
Goods
Like
Economy
Access
Heating
Oil
Banks
Crash
While
Again
Groceries
Taxpayers
Use
Regulation
Help
Businesses
Helped
Keep
Need
This election isn't about Barack Obama or Mitt Romney. It's about you. The other guys write $10 million checks and make $10,000 bets. But we've bet this campaign on you.
Jim Messina
You
Election
Other
Obama
Bet
About
Bets
Guys
Write
Checks
Make
Mitt
Mitt Romney
Campaign
Romney
Barack
Barack Obama
Million
It is quite amazing how hard the subconscious works when it is made to understand that this life is not a rehearsal, there is no safety net and no assurance of any final closure. It is also quite appalling to realize how catatonic the imagination can become when we hedge our bets, opt for the safer direction at every fork in the path.
John Burdett
Life
Safety
Amazing
Path
Made
Become
Subconscious
Every
Imagination
Assurance
Final
Our
Net
Bets
Direction
Also
Safer
Safety Net
Understand
How
Any
Quite
Closure
Fork
Hedge
Realize
Hard
Appalling
Rehearsal
Works
The press pool was taking bets on how many months I would last. There was nobody in the state who thought I had any shot at being a good senator.
Kirsten Gillibrand
Good
Thought
Pool
State
Months
Press
Would
Bets
Had
Taking
Nobody
How
Senator
Any
Being
Shot
Who
Many
Last
Bitcoins are not a real investment; they are bets inside a casino. If the price goes back up, don't be fooled. In the parlance of popping investment bubbles, it's something called a 'dead-cat bounce.' People who are desperate to keep the game going rush back in, hoping to bring the price back up, but it never lasts.
Kurt Eichenwald
Game
People
Casino
Desperate
Lasts
Back
Back Up
Hoping
Inside
Rush
Something
Bets
Fooled
Price
Bubbles
Never
Investment
Bounce
Real
Up
Goes
Going
Who
Popping
Keep
Bring
I guess, what I'm saying is that when I've been this surprised by my own characters and world, all bets are off.
Laurell K. Hamilton
Saying
World
Own
Guess
Characters
Bets
My Own
Surprised
Been
Off
The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker.
Mary Karr
Daily
Bets
Physically
Could
Higher
Emotional
Like
Nap
Stakes
Daily Basis
Basis
I have no intention of making small bets.
Masayoshi Son
No Intention
Bets
Small
Making
Intention
I'm not making any bets on the future.
Michelle Williams
Future
Bets
Making
Any
The government, of course, will print money to bail out the banks' uncovered casino bets, but not to bail out the elderly from the theft of their funds.
Paul Craig Roberts
Government
Money
Casino
Will
Out
Bets
Uncovered
Bail
Print
Course
Print Money
Banks
Theft
Elderly
Funds
I've got like a week and a half left, all bets are off.
Rob Corddry
Half
Bets
Week
Like
Got
Off
Left
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