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Although I am proud of all supporters, especially those legislators who have had the guts to buck the party and support me, there are some supporters who risk more than their political careers. They risk the wrath of extremists and even their livelihood for publicly supporting me.
Tom Tancredo
Me
Political
Party
Extremists
Those
Some
Wrath
Guts
Risk
More
Buck
Had
Support
Supporters
Supporting
Although
Proud
Am
Than
Legislators
Who
Even
Livelihood
Publicly
Careers
When I started my company, many people said I shouldn't launch it as a retail concept because it was too big a risk. They told me to launch as a wholesaler to test the waters - because that was the traditional way.
Tory Burch
Me
People
Big
Too
Waters
Way
Launch
Risk
Retail
Concept
Because
Said
Test
Traditional
Traditional Way
Many
Company
Started
What does the future look like if the heads of society ask our young people to risk their lives for questionable causes? I think it looks rather bleak.
Tracy Chapman
Future
People
Young
Think
Society
Our
Rather
Risk
Bleak
Heads
Like
Look
Looks
Does
Causes
Questionable
Young People
Ask
Lives
Sometimes it's very hard for other New Orleans musicians to break out. It starts with the musician. They have to be willing to take a risk. Playing in the city, you can get comfortable. You think things are going well, but you're always in the city.
Trombone Shorty
You
Musicians
Sometimes
Think
Starts
Other
Musician
Out
Willing
City
Risk
Take
New
Well
Comfortable
Always
New Orleans
Very
Get
Going
Break
Hard
Orleans
Things
Playing
Certain jazz musicians just copy what was done 100 years ago. The music won't grow if nobody takes a risk.
Trombone Shorty
Music
Musicians
Jazz
Risk
Takes
Nobody
Years
Years Ago
Done
Just
Certain
Jazz Musicians
Grow
Copy
There's rule changes every year. I do wish, however, that the NFL did have a voice from the players' side, whether it's our players' union president, or team captains, or our executive committee on the players' side. Because we're the guys that realize the risk; we're the guys on the field.
Troy Polamalu
Wish
Year
Field
Every
Changes
President
Side
Our
Rule
Guys
Risk
Voice
Executive
Because
However
Did
Committee
Whether
Realize
Team
Union
Players
Our sport is not made for anybody to be able to play it, especially at the NFL level, so there's obviously some risk that we all take knowingly.
Troy Polamalu
Made
Our
Able
Some
Risk
Take
Knowingly
Sport
Obviously
Anybody
Play
Level
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
Me
You
Think
About
Scary
Risk
Risky
Talk
Because
Hindsight
Very
Walking
Modeling
Paid
Bills
Away
I think a lot of writers are tempted to add complexity by over-complicating things, but always remember that most natural rules/laws are, at their core, simple. Start simple, and build from there, or you risk getting yourself and your readers tangled.
V. E. Schwab
You
Natural
Yourself
Simple
Remember
Build
Think
Add
Complexity
Tempted
Risk
Writers
Most
Readers
Always
Tangled
Lot
Getting
Your
Things
Start
Core
To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside.
V. S. Naipaul
You
Yourself
People
World
Looking
Energy
Older
Immerse
Immersed
Out
Easy
Oneself
Risk
Writer
Outside
Days
Because
Becomes
Go
Get
Less
Older People
Harder
For me, couture is like 35 mm. film. It's so important we school ourselves to see real quality. In a couture garment, as in a 35 mm. film, you really feel the life of the people who made it. In high-street fashion, it's different. There's no risk.
Vicky Krieps
Life
Fashion
Me
You
Quality
People
School
Made
Important
Ourselves
See
Risk
Feel
Like
Real
Couture
Different
Really
Who
Film
Garment
An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.
Victor Kiam
Success
Entrepreneur
Whatever
Assumes
Risk
He
He Or She
She
Committed
Dedicated
Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.
Vikram Seth
Writing
Not Talking
Books
Mine
Those
About
Risk
More
Poetry
Write
Take
Never
Talking
Sure
Am
Years
Than
Senses
Successful
Here
If you don't take a risk then what's the point. We can't keep making films in the same space.
Vikramaditya Motwane
You
Space
Films
Risk
Point
Take
Making
Same
Then
Keep
The more you do a stunt, the more you increase the risk of something happening.
Ving Rhames
You
Increase
Something
Risk
More
Stunt
Happening
I'm a fiscal hawk. I vote against all taxes, but I do believe the environment, and climate change, is a bigger issue than fiscal deficits are as a risk to the nation.
Vinod Khosla
Change
Vote
Nation
Believe
Deficits
Risk
Hawk
Environment
Climate
Climate Change
Fiscal
Issue
Than
Bigger
Against
Taxes
There is always the risk of being over-confident when you are preparing to face a weaker player.
Viswanathan Anand
You
Face
Weaker
Risk
Always
Being
Preparing
Player
Like women, life is unpredictable and a huge risk.
Vivek Oberoi
Life
Women
Unpredictable
Risk
Like
Huge
I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.
W. Bruce Cameron
Work
Good
Me
Police
Thought
Rare
Difficult
Danger
Those
Pretty
Pretty Good
Risk
Area
Except
Part
Police Officer
Make
Makes
Always
Condition
Officer
Officers
Shoot
Getting
Maybe
Shot
Who
Medical
I have always been interested in theater, as an actor and as someone who looks upon theater - at the risk of sounding pretentious - as an icon by which we measure society... My life has been in the theater to an extent. It's only an extension to write, direct, produce, whatever.
Wayne Rogers
Life
Pretentious
My Life
Whatever
Society
Has-Been
Direct
Someone
Risk
Only
Write
Looks
Always
Been
Which
Theater
Interested
Icon
Produce
Measure
Who
Actor
Extension
Extent
Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.
Wayne White
Business
Experience
Intelligence
Increasing
Arab
Penetration
Sunni
Risk
Previous
Almost
Almost All
New
Insurgency
Iraqis
Any
Apparatus
Let's make sure that we don't close down 37 of the 42 clinics in Texas and leave women with nowhere to go and put them in a situation where their health will be at risk, because what we do know is that closing down the ability to access that service unfortunately does not take the need away or women's confronting that issue away.
Wendy Davis
Service
Health
Women
Will
Situation
Down
Ability
Risk
Take
Put
Know
Make
Sure
Because
Access
Does
Leave
Issue
Go
Clinics
Texas
Close
Closing
Where
Unfortunately
Them
Confronting
Away
Nowhere
Need
The potential rewards of small-cap investing do not come without risk.
Whitney Tilson
Risk
Potential
Investing
Come
Without
Rewards
Just because a company's future is highly uncertain doesn't mean an investment in it is risky. In fact, some of the best potential investments are highly uncertain but have little risk of permanent capital loss.
Whitney Tilson
Future
Best
Some
Risk
Uncertain
Potential
Risky
Fact
Investment
Investments
Highly
Because
Permanent
Loss
Just
In Fact
Just Because
Little
Mean
Capital
Company
Online, I would never friend a random cute guy on Facebook or start liking his pictures on Instagram - even if I had a crush on him. But with Tinder, it's like following or friending each other at the same time. The risk of revealing your feelings is removed.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
Time
Facebook
Random
Feelings
Cute
Other
Would
Following
Guy
Online
Risk
Instagram
Never
Had
Crush
Pictures
Like
Liking
Him
Revealing
His
Friend
Same
Same Time
Your
Even
Each
Start
After graduating in International Relations in 2011, I turned down safe, corporate job offers and instead accepted a position at an 'incubator' in L.A. - a tech word for a team of people who are funded by investors to create apps. I knew the future was digital and that I had to take a risk.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
Future
People
Word
Digital
Job
Down
International Relations
Relations
Incubator
Corporate
Apps
Risk
Take
Had
Knew
Investors
Instead
Safe
Accepted
Offers
Graduating
After
Turned
Create
Team
Who
International
Tech
Position
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