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'The Paris Review's mandate has been the same for fifty years. First and foremost, this magazine is for writers; the editors' task is to support and celebrate them, especially at the beginning of their careers, but also as they move forward, venturing stories that are creative, risky, new.
John D'agata / Essayist
Careers
Celebrate
Creative
Editors
Fifty
Stories
Support
Beginning
Writers
Foremost
Forward
Magazine
Mandate
Move
Move Forward
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Risky
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Venturing
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What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subprime mortgages that were lent out largely to low-income, highly risky borrowers, and applying this kind of magic-pixie-dust math to these bundles of securities and slapping AAA ratings on them.
Matt Taibbi / Author
Borrowers
Dust
Goldman Sachs
Low Income
Magic
Math
Mortgage
Slapping
Applying
Banks
Bubble
Highly
Largely
Lent
Ratings
Risky
Securities
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I have 18 tattoos. My tattoos have kind of become their own person. Everybody does stories on them. It is risky to be successful in the fashion industry and to tat your body up, but I figured, the way that I made my career and the way that I am successful is because I have always been myself.
Jessica White / Model
Fashion Industry
Your Body
Myself Always Your
Tattoos
Myself I Am Body
Figured
Risky
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A risk-insensitive leverage ratio can be a useful backstop to risk-based capital requirements. But such a ratio can have perverse incentives if it is the binding capital requirement because it treats relatively safe activities, such as central clearing, as equivalent to the most risky activities.
Jerome Powell /
Binding
Clearing
Incentives
Requirements
Safe
Treats
Activities
Useful
Capital
Central
Equivalent
Leverage
Relatively
Perverse
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Requirement
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Flying in space is risky. It will never be safe, and the best thing we can do is manage those risks. It's important for people, for human beings, to be in space because they're adaptable and because they're not pre-programmed software that can go off and do tasks that are appropriate for machines.
Alan G. Poindexter /
Adaptable
Appropriate
Flying
Machines
Manage
Software
Risky
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The movie I'm really excited about that I had really fun doing is 'Feed the Dog.' It's with Nat Wolff and Selena Gomez. It's really fun. It's raunchy, like 'Superbad' meets 'Risky Business,' kind of. I got to be a really fun character, an out-there Mrs. Robinson-type character. I get to seduce Nat.
Elisabeth Shue / Actress
Feed
Meets
Mrs
Risky
Seduce
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There are conventions for people with serious, boring inventions, but fad inventors need help. You need someone to talk to. You just can't tell your friends you're going to invent a pet rock and mortgage your house to pay for it. It's embarrassing... risky mentally. Your friends think you're crazy.
Ken Hakuta /
Pet
Conventions
Embarrassing
Mortgage
Pay
Serious
Your Crazy People
Mentally
Fad
Invent
Inventors
Rock
Risky
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Actors are always afraid of ending up like overcooked old soup over time. What's risky is that you don't realize this has happened, and you just get thick and boring. Going abroad was like getting a new pot to cook everything again. I was a rookie, a new self. And they were asking me, 'Who are you?'
Ken Watanabe / Film Actor
Soup
Thick
Time Always Me
Abroad
Afraid
Cook
Ending
Realize
Risky
Rookie
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Nothing prepares you for shooting in the sea. Some days the sea is choppy, some days the waves are long. When there is no wind, it's fantastic to shoot, but your brain is burning because of the heat. You are shooting hand-held and taking a crane on a boat, which is risky since you can get toppled over.
Rajiv Menon /
Boat
Burning
Heat
Sea
Wind
Prepares
Risky
Waves
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The rapid growth of prenatal testing has had some undeniably positive effects: A woman who knows she will bear a child with a handicap can plan to deliver in a hospital equipped for risky births. And many couples prefer the opportunity to prepare psychologically for the work of raising a disabled child.
Tucker Carlson / Commentator
Disabled
Effects
Growth
Rapid Growth
Testing
Prefer
Bear
Couples
Deliver
Equipped
Handicap
Hospital
Plan
Psychologically
Raising
Rapid
Risky
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I realised that being a mother is similar to being an entrepreneur. You set up a system that is your family and you invest... you take risks and you actually have the most important job of rearing up the future of not just your family or an individual, but of the entire world. That is a tough and risky job.
Manushi Chhillar /
Entrepreneur
Realised
Invest
Entire World
Important Job
Rearing
Risky
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Often, when a girl has a crush on a boy, her friend will dare her to speak to him or ask for a pencil, or better yet, let him know that she has a crush. Pretty risky stuff... It happens thousands of times a day in the lives of teenagers everywhere. Putting yourself out there. Daring to expose your true feelings.
Jazz Jennings /
Girl
Crush
Dare
Speak
Stuff
Ask
Everywhere
Yourself Your Better
Boy
Pretty
True
Friend
Better Yourself Your
Often
Times
Expose
Yourself Day Better
Her
Him
Pencil
Putting
Risky
She
Teenagers
Thousands
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Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are well known, is a fairly risky place to live. To be evil, you have to have intent. Any remarkable natural happening in which no human will is employed cannot be regarded as evil.
Simon Winchester / Author
Employed
Evil
People
Remarkable
Shoulders
Well Known
World
Fairly
Geological
Happening
Intent
Occasionally
Regarded
Risky
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I feel there has to be a certain amount of improvisation as I'm writing, which means any idea or any commitment to a project is risky. It involves time; it involves gathering of material, and sometimes it just doesn't work. Sometimes it does. As I'm starting out on a project, I can't tell if it will click or not.
Joanna Scott /
Gathering
Improvisation
Time Work Will
Click
Involves
Risky
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I actually did an Agatha Christie monologue for my audition showcase at Guildhall, and that's how I got my agent. Some people said 'ooh it's old hat' and 'too risky'. Some people think she's all about the narrative and thriller aspect at the expense of character and I disagree. I did it anyway and it worked well.
Thomas Howes / Actor
Aspect
Character
Disagree
Narrative
People
Showcase
Thinking
Agent
Anyway
Audition
Expense
Hat
Monologue
Ooh
Risky
Some People
Thriller
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For a quarter of a century, I've been playing baseball for pay. It has been pretty good pay, most of the time. The work has been hard, but what of it? It's been risky. I've broken both my legs. I've sprained everything I've got between my ankles and my disposition. I've dislocated my joints and fractured my pride.
Rabbit Maranville /
Ankles
Baseball
Broken
Disposition
Joints
Legs
Pay
Time Work Good
Work Time Good
Fractured
Pretty Good
Quarter
Risky
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The next humans to walk on the moon may be Chinese. Only China seems to have the resources, the dirigiste government, and the willingness to undertake a risky Apollo-style programme. If Americans or Europeans venture to the moon and beyond, this will have to be in a very different style and with different motives.
Martin Rees / Astronomer
China
Humans
Moon
Resources
Venture
Willingness
Europeans
Motives
Programme
Risky
To The Moon
Undertake
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I came from a tradition where souls were a theological reality, not a faith reality. Souls were for saving, not for communing. Souls were for converting and, once they were converted, they were to be left alone. Souls were too mystical, too subjective, too ambiguous, too risky, too... well, you know - New Age-ish.
Mike Yaconelli / Writer
Ambiguous
Mystical
Subjective
Theological
Converted
Risky
Souls
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That President Mohammad Khatami's policies have been blocked is the bitterest incident in the contemporary Iranian history. This means that the wishes of millions of people who voted for Khatami and called for freedom and justice have been ignored... Why should cultural activities and journalism be so risky in Iran?
Abdolkarim Soroush / Critic
History
Blocked
Contemporary
Ignored
Iran
Journalism
Millions
President
Activities
Voted
Bitterest
Cultural
Incident
Millions Of People
Policies
Risky
Wishes
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I just think in this world of extreme religious pluralism, the great spectrum of things ranging from the healthy and the respectable, and the balance and the true and tried, you go down to quite bizarre things which are very risky for people, particularly people who are young or vulnerable or unable to discriminate.
Peter Hollingworth / Bishop
Balance
Bizarre
Pluralism
Pluralism Is
Religious
Respectable
Spectrum
Thinking
Great World People
Extreme
Discriminate
Risky
Unable
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With the discovery of vast new North American energy resources - thanks to the application of proven technologies like hydraulic fracturing and commonsense regulatory processes on non-federal lands - the U.S. government should no longer be in the business of spending taxpayer dollars on risky, exotic energy projects.
Fred Upton / U.s. Representative
Application
Discovery
Dollars
Exotic
Projects
Proven
Resources
Spending
Thanks
Commonsense
Vast
Lands
North
North American
Processes
Regulatory
Risky
Taxpayer
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There are some films that you know will do well. Then there are others which have good stories that ought to be told. But because they are slightly risky, not everybody is willing to take that up. But I think it is important to take risks because at the end of the day, you want to explore new genres and new characters.
Diana Penty /
Genres
Good Stories
Risky
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Why aren't there films being made that tell ethnically diverse stories? Or why is it so impossible to allow a person of color to add their texture and their essence to a role that is not ethnically specific? I don't know why it's a novel or risky idea to consider making a film look like how our world actually looks today.
Teyonah Parris /
Add
Diverse
Essence
Our World
Texture
Today Look World
Risky
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After I released 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' people started saying, Oh, it's kind of risky. You're coming out with a religious song. And I was thinking, Really? I grew up in Oklahoma; I always had a close relationship with God. I never thought it was risky in the least. If anything, I thought it was the safest thing I could do.
Carrie Underwood / Singer-Songwriter
Jesus
Relationship
Close Relationship
Grew
Religious
Song
Thinking
Started
God Thinking Always
After
Oh
Close
Coming
Least
Released
Risky
Safest
Saying
Wheel
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Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.
Ron Wyden / United States Senator
Health
Aisle
America
Both Sides
Broken
Care
Financial
Hardship
Health Care
Health Care Costs
Lawmakers
Millions
Paid
Sides
Silence
Since
American Public
Considered
Care Costs
Public
Offer
Plan
Politically
Price
Risky
System
Though
Uninsured
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Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.
Andrew Weil / Medical Doctor
Technology
Accounts
Belief
Choices
Dangerous
Expensive
Hurt
Lazy
Lifestyle
Machines
Medicine
Progress
Real
Safety
Safety Net
Self Reliance
Shadow
Sophisticated
Spirit
Below
Side
False
Impersonal
Net
Risky
Undermined
Ways
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I think the curiosity of mankind, that we want something unknown. Like, 500 years ago, humankind wanted to know what the other side of the ocean is, and it was a very risky project, and then we decided that probably we can fly; let's fly higher. And now we're flying space station, and still it's not enough for us: we want to know what's beyond.
Sergey Volkov /
Ocean
Curiosity
Flying
Humankind
Mankind
Unknown
Fly
Risky
Space Station
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