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We are very much engaged across the government, very much engaged in streamlining and simplifying our activities with borrowers and lenders, because that saves time and saves costs and we believe we can do that while maintaining the same or increased levels of oversight and risk management.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

Surf music at the time that I did it wasn't mainstream, nor were the Cheech and Chong albums. The risk comes from having the ability to do something that hadn't been done before that I thought was either interesting as an art form or just should be done.

I personally have said many times I'd be a hundred percent in equities. That fits my risk profile and my views of the world, though obviously it's not appropriate for everyone. Most investors need a more diversified portfolio.

To be alive at all involves some risk.

To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

I like to control the risk I take. And when risk is taken out of my hands, it frustrates me.

For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.

I'm strong and fearless and not afraid to take risks in business.

I'm in love with love, so I'm always taking risks! I think it's part of love, taking risks.

The risk from terrorism remains acute and the private market cannot continue to operate without a government backstop.

Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence.

How is AIDS research to progress when the premise of science is questioning but the premise of questioning HIV is considered so dangerous that even venturing into the facts is too great a risk?

I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.

If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something.

A controlled carbohydrate lifestyle really prevents risk factors for heart disease.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Christmas movies, it's a hard thing to do. The danger is you just end up with a Hollywood star with a Santa beard. You risk it being fake and cheesy and not real.

You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times.

There is no threshold level of fine particle pollution below which health risk reductions are not achieved by reduced exposure.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.

I've not been afraid to take risks, be resolute and passionate about purpose, and inspire people to do things that maybe they thought weren't possible.

Some studies show that women can be better money managers than men because they tend to be more conservative and do their homework. Men tend to take more risks without the research.

What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don't want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared.

To race Formula three is very high risk and I am not going to take a chance. Thank god I am not doing it!

If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.

I always recommend, if you can, to patent or protect whatever your idea is. If you can't, you have to make your best judgment. Sometimes people don't get anywhere because they sit on something, so afraid to reveal it. And yet, in the reverse, sometimes if you expose something too widely, you can risk losing it.

There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.

My career was always full of risks one way or another, and that's the way I like it.

Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.

I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.

Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward.

While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and individuals now risk being classified as terrorists for complaining about it. Economic globalisation is about homogenising differences in the worlds' markets, cultures, tastes and traditions. It's about giving big business access to a global market.

The risk from viruses is an unanswered question -- and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.

As gun owners, my husband and I understand that the Second Amendment is most at risk when a criminal or deranged person commits a gun crime. These acts only embolden those who oppose gun ownership. Promoting responsible gun laws protects the Second Amendment and reduces lives lost from guns.

Many low-income children face chronic stress from nutritional deprivation or persistent violence at home or in the community. By addressing their medical, emotional and developmental needs through a comprehensive clinical care model, we can lower their risk of developing long-term physical and mental health issues.

I love a good cliffhanger. I love when big events happen in shows. I love shows that aren't afraid to take risks and to really do what's best for the story line and realistic for the story line.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.

Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.

When an executive walked on our floor, it was at their own risk. As far as what others thought of working for me, I know I was very tough at times, and would storm down the hall after watching some bad animation from Korea. But overall, I feel we had a good time.

You know sometimes you're in a position of risk and you feel that you can turn good or bad.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.

While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.

Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that's one of the reasons that make it very popular.

Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.

It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds.

Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That's the classic great entrepreneur.

People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I've always been a tomboy.

As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management.

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.

On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.

I feel when a writer treats a character as 'precious,' the writer runs the risk of turning them into a comic book character. There's nothing wrong with comic book characters in comic books, but I don't write comic books.

I just do whatever it is that I believe I should do, regardless of the risks to my life.

If you think we are going to gain ground by holding the American people hostage, saying that their taxes are at risk, I actually disagree.

The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.

For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system.

It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.

Taking sartorial risks and not following other people is what makes you stand out.

I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life.

Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.

I think if you go beyond a year - if this continues into the system in the out years, I think there is a risk and that - that we could have a negative reaction in the bond market and that will offset the good that was attempted to be done.

I've spent my life as an airplane mechanic, pilot, aircraft manufacturer and airline CEO who never lost a life or an airplane. I am considerate of the risk we take every time we fly. I also know we need to fly and always to improve safety.

I'm not a risk taker. I don't do plunging necklines or really short skirts. I try to stay as classy as possible and provide a little mystery

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.

When the script for 'Once' came my way, I had the thought that maybe it will last only a season. But I was willing to take that risk.

The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries.

People at the University of Portland were accepting and loving and open-minded. When you have a safety net, it allows you to take risks.

There's always risk. But I'm going to come in and play hard. I want to come in and contribute.

Everything in life is a risk! I mean, you walk out onto the street and it's a risk! Don't you think?

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.

When you don't have anything to lose, you discover something wonderful: you're free to take great risks without fear or reservation.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

Father's ideals became part of me and still are today. His reserve, deeply rooted liberal views, his provocative humour, his passion for work and love of risk are also mine.

I'm brave to say that I won't take this sort of risk.

In every area of the world where there is earthquake risk, there are still many buildings of this type; it is very frustrating to try to get rid of them.

At the World Cup, there is a constant risk that you might find a bag or some object that has been left behind, and no one is quite sure what it is. To bring in a full bomb-disposal team for each item can be very time-consuming. The PackBot can go over rough terrain, climb stairs, pick things up, and also be operated from a safe distance.

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.

Once you are a victim of a bombing, you enter a risk group to which they will not sell insurance.

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.

It's not just: you get off the plane, you're back home, everything's fine. Maybe the physical danger ends, but soldiers are still deeply at risk of being injured in a different way.

You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.

I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.

Having cancer empowered me to take more risks. I knew beating cancer was going to shape me, but it wasnt going to be all of me.