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I came to Los Angeles to be an actor, which is, at best, a gamble.

~Adam Scott

Topics: Actor Angeles Best Came Gamble Los Los Angeles Which I Came

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From our group, we've had joint ventures with a lot of international companies: Procter & Gamble, General Electric, Sara Lee, currently with Hershey's and Tyson. We've learned a lot of the best practices.

~Adi Godrej

Topics: Best Companies Currently Electric Gamble General Group Had International Joint Learned Lee Lot Our Practices Tyson Ventures

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We were licencees of Sara Lee Corp's air freshener brand Ambi Pur, which they sold to Procter and Gamble. So we handed it over to Procter and Gamble. Now we will introduce our own brand of air freshener.

~Adi Godrej

Topics: Air Brand Gamble Handed Introduce Lee Now Our Over Own Sold Were Which Will

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I always feel like 'as long as I'm doin' what I love to do, the money's naturally gonna come.' When you start thinkin' business and you start thinkin' 'What's hot? What's the wave? Who is hot? Let's get at that person,' it becomes a point where you're tryin' to strategize to make money. And that's always a gamble.

~Akon

Topics: Always Becomes Business Come Doin Feel Gamble Get Gonna Hot Like Long Love Make Money Naturally Person Point Start Tryin Wave Where Who You I Love

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I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.

~Alex Trebek

Topics: Because Dollars Gamble Give Give Me Great Great Pleasure Hundred Losing Me Off Pleasure Winning

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I call my ring Procter and Gamble, because David paid for it through his first commercial from Head & Shoulders. When I met David, he was waiting tables. He was below broke, in deep debt, but I followed my heart. When you're looking for a mate, don't look at his current status, but his present potential that will become a part of his future.

~Alysia Reiner

Topics: Because Become Below Broke Call Commercial Current David Debt Deep First Followed Future Gamble He Head Heart His Look Looking Mate Met Paid Part Potential Present Ring Shoulders Status Tables Through Waiting Will You

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At MGM, you knew you were going to be working next year; you knew you were going to get paid. But I was too ambitious musically to settle for it. And I wanted to gamble with whatever talent I might have had.

~Andre Previn

Topics: Ambitious Gamble Get Going Had Knew Might Musically Next Next Year Paid Settle Talent Too Wanted Were Whatever Working Year You Mgm

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People who don't do jazz think it's black magic. But really, it's just a matter of getting used to it. It's fun to gamble. The trick is not to fall back on the things you've done before.

~Andre Previn

Topics: Back Before Black Black Magic Done Fall Fun Gamble Getting Jazz Just Magic Matter People Really Things Think Trick Used Who You

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The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!

~Arthur Hertzberg

Topics: Assured Country Depths Gamble Going Moral Never Nonsense Now Our Poverty Reach Revolution Roosevelt Security Social Social Security Street Very Wall Wall Street Were Would

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That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

Topics: About Democratic Enterprise Even Free Free Enterprise Freedom Friends Gamble Great Great Thing Lose Player Thing Truly You

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