Top 100 Taker Quotes

#1. Sex with a stranger makes you feel decadent, a risk taker, young again. Sex with a stranger is life on the edge. Everything else is life wrapped in cotton wool.

Chloe Thurlow

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#2. He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one by intent.

Ruth Park

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#3. It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.

Richard Branson

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#4. In my twenties, I was a huge, insane risk-taker.

James Ransone

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#5. Lawrence concluded that Alan's penis scheme must have finally found a taker.

Neal Stephenson

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#6. I've always been a risk taker; I've never believed in following the expected path.

Mindy Grossman

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#7. I'm not a risk taker. But astronauts are professionals, so you get out on the field and play ball. I tried to take it in stride because that's what I had to do to get into space. That's where I belong, and I'm pretty good at it.

Story Musgrave

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#8. If you don't ask, you'll never know. Be an educated risk taker.

Aliza Licht

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#9. Derivatives - The risk never leaves the system - It finds taker who believes the risk is acceptable ... until they lose everything.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

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#10. What is a star? Is stardom a kind of suspended adulthood? Is it a place beyond good and evil? Is a star a person you need to believe in--a daredevil, a risk-taker, a person who goes close to the edge without falling?

Kim Gordon

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#11. I held down as many jobs as I could find, from being a waiter to working at a yoga studio and as a ticket-taker at a small theater company - anything that would allow me to go out and do auditions.

John Krasinski

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#12. To be human is necessarily to be a vulnerable risk-taker; to be a courageous human is to be good at it

Jonathan Lear

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#13. Integrity gives. It is not a taker.

Johnny Hunt

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#14. Everyone in my family is a risk taker in his or her own way.

Ann Bancroft

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#15. I think you're a taker. You've always been one. It's like God left some part of you out when He built you inside of me.

Stephen King

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#16. A census taker once tried to test me. I let my front garden eat him.

Jonathan L. Howard

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#17. Quick, nervy and jumpy -yet to the children she was as constant as a staff, a tree that can be counted on not to pull up its root and shift in the night. She was the tree that grew in the centre of their lives and in whose shade they lived.

Anita Desai

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#18. You're a heartbreaker, dream maker, love taker, don't you mess around with me.

Pat Benatar

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#19. Don't stop at the first no. You have to be a risk taker. If there weren't room for creativity, the patent office would close down.

Debbi Fields

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#20. To successfully gain a hostage's safe release, a negotiator had to penetrate the hostage-taker's motives, state of mind, intelligence, and emotional strengths and weaknesses. The negotiator played the role of bully, conciliator, enforcer, savior, confessor, instigator, and

Chris Voss

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#21. If I have refused to risk, I have in the self-same decision refused to love. And if indeed I have refused to love, tragically I have refused to live. And when will I realize that that in and of itself is an unacceptable risk.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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#22. I think people see death as the hunter, but it's just the ticket taker, the timekeeper. It's the sound of a record playing in the background.

Elizabeth Berg

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#23. 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.

Kristen Bell

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#24. There are times ... when any visitor - in person, by phone, by mail - is an intruder, a burglar, a space hogger, an oxygen taker, a chaos maker, a conflict inducer, a mood chaser, and a total drag.

Toni Cade Bambara

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#25. When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: He could plant a tree. And when the axe was invented, he became a taker: He could chop it down. Whoever owns land has thus assumed, whether he knows it or not, the divine functions of creating and destroying plants.

Aldo Leopold

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#26. So Mauclair takes snuff, does he?" he asked carelessly. "'Yes, Mr. Commissary....Look, there is his snuff-box on that little shelf....Oh! he's a great snuff-taker!" "So am I," said Mifroid and put the snuff-box in his pocket.

Gaston Leroux

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#27. As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.

John Donne

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#28. This world stands on the foundation of the relationship between the support and the support-taker. If the support is removed, the support-taker will be released.

Dada Bhagwan

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#29. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.

Gary Gygax

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#30. I've been a children's book editor, a nanny, a camp counselor, a barista, a research lab assistant, and a movie theater ticket-taker.

Lisa Graff

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#31. I'm a high-risk taker on the court in the sense of trying to squeeze things in there.

Jason Kidd

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#32. Real love is when you become selfless and you are more concerned about your mate's or children's egos than your own. You're now a giver instead of a taker.

Sylvester Stallone

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#33. Somewhere after you have few successful films, there is a fear of losing what you have got. It is very easy in the beginning, as you are a risk taker, have nothing to lose, and there is no perception about you.

Emraan Hashmi

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#34. I gotta go. Just got a taker on the rope.

Jillian Dodd

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#35. God gifted a Zoo; with a paralyzed care taker.

Durgesh Satpathy

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#36. I'm a risk-taker. Most of my career has not been a joyful experience, but it has been challenging. I like the dangers.

Michael Douglas

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#37. One of the stock Sydney jokes is of the census-taker who enquires: 'How many children have you, ma'am?' 'Two living and three in Melbourne.'

Elspeth Huxley

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#38. I'm a Bad Test Taker ... you mean you're stupid?

Daniel Tosh

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#39. I just like to keep my money in the bank; I'm not a big risk-taker. I don't know anything about the stock market ... I stay away from things I don't know anything about.

Wayne Gretzky

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#40. married a giver, not a taker.

Kim Holden

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#41. The labels are in a jam. For a company to do well in music now, it's got to be in all aspects of the business. And Live Nation is the risk-taker. It's leading the charge.

Guy Oseary

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#42. In marriage, someone has to be a giver and someone a taker. I am a taker who married a giver.

Robert Preston

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#43. I'm a risk-taker. I like to test myself.

Joanne Woodward

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#44. Don't be too scared to calculate risks

Sunday Adelaja

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#45. If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

Ray Kroc

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#46. I'm much more of a risk taker. I'm more fearless now than when I was 18. I was much more self-aware and I cared too much about what people thought of me and now I really don't. I probably should.

Jessica Alba

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#47. Man is naturally humble, naturally grateful, naturally guilty, naturally transcended, naturally a sufferer; he is small, pitiful, weak, a passive taker who tucks himself naturally in a beyond of superior, awesome, all-embracing power.

Ernest Becker

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#48. It is a knowledge of the intrinsic significance of every existent. For the artist as for the mescalin taker draperies are living hieroglyphs that stand in some peculiarly expressive way for the unfathomable mystery of pure being.

Aldous Huxley

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#49. For the men, they are more of a risk taker, and for the women, they are more nurturing and more details. So the combination of the men and women is very good for business.

Teresita Sy-Coson

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#50. What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I'm not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.

Barbara Kingsolver

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#51. I'm definitely a risk-taker with my music.

Timbaland

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#52. If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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#53. Of all the times - Time be the recorder,
Of all the things - Time be the robber,
Of all the sorrows - Time be the healer,
Of all the powers - Time be the taker.
[6] - 4

Munindra Misra

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#54. You are the worst greeter in the history of greeters ever. In the history. Of time. And greeters." "Greeter? You think I'm a greeter?" Talk about a demotion. "Yes. To the other side?" She pointed up. "Dude, calling me a greeter is like calling Saint Peter a ticket taker.

Darynda Jones

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#55. Bottom line, you're either a risk taker, or your not, and if you don't take risks, you'll never win big.

Geno Auriemma

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#56. My dad and I had been close - he called me Tuyet Bang, Vietnamese for 'avalanche,' because of my nonstop energy. I took a lot from him, like being a risk taker, and I know how much he loved my mother.

Michelle Phan

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#57. I wasn't a keen taker of speed because I didn't like the comedown from it.

Jonathan Meades

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#58. I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation.

Paul Ryan

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#59. A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling.

Thomas Harris

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#60. You haven't broken me Taker, you haven't broken me, I'm still standing.

Jeff Hardy

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#61. Don't just be a taker; healthy relationships require balance. Give with your words and be extra generous with your deeds.

Steve Maraboli

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#62. I'm a risk-taker. It's where my passion lies, so I don't want to play it safe. That means I'm going to fail sometimes.

Hilary Swank

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#63. God is not a taker. God is a giver.

Louie Giglio

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#64. If you weren't a risk-taker, you were always going to be a step behind. You could be the best cyclist in the world, but if you weren't a risk-taker, you weren't going to win the Tour de France.

Tyler Hamilton

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#65. You and I are forever at the mercy of the census-taker and the census-maker. That impertinent fellow who goes from house to house is one of the real masters of the statistical situation. The other is the man who organizes the results.

Walter Lippmann

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#66. God is the giver of life. And He's also the taker. If He spared your life, then He must have something left for you to do.

Jody Hedlund

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#67. The opposite of Taking A Risk is of course Playing It Safe. You must admit though, Playing It Safe is a pretty dull way to live. On a score of one to ten as a Risk Taker where do you stand? Add a little spice to your life today and take a risk.

Bob Proctor

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#68. You're a taker. And you've been taking for a long time. And I think that you can only take so much from the universe before it closes shop.

J.T. Lawrence

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#69. The ambition of instantaneous photography ... was that of preserving the spontaneity of action and avoiding any indication that the presence of the picture taker had a modifying influence on what was going on.

Rudolf Arnheim

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#70. Piper McLean," [Annabeth] grumbled, "that was without a doubt the dumbest risk I've ever seen anyone take, and I date a dumb risk-taker.

Rick Riordan

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#71. I'm not a risk-taker; that's probably why I write - because when you're easily bored, but you don't like taking risks, you end up doing it all in your head.

Catherine Jinks

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#72. It's cold out there, colder than a ticket taker's smile at the Ivar Theatre on a Saturday night.

Tom Waits

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#73. Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.

Agatha Christie

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#74. I am a really bad test taker. I can get straight As in school, but I get nervous on test.

Mary-Kate Olsen

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#75. Seeked of self love.

Nikki Rowe

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#76. When my friends have a health concern, they call me. I've always been a vitamin taker. I also take digestive enzymes and antioxidants, and supplements that help with the thyroid and adrenals for my time-zone changes.

Carla Gugino

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#77. Self-love is an incredible equalizer. When self love is running the show, the over giver learns to honor their own yes's and no's. In the same way the over taker learns to honor another person's yes's and no's.

Christina Marie

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#78. I'm an inveterate note taker - I scribble all these things down on pieces of paper. I wanted to create some way of organizing all of them.

Mitch Kapor

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#79. Life serves the risk taker.

Sophia Amoruso

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#80. What leaders have to remember is that somewhere under the somnolent surface is the creature that builds civilizations, the dreamer of dreams, the risk taker. And remembering that, the leader must reach down to the springs that never dry up, the ever-fresh springs of the human spirit.

John W. Gardner

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#81. Drugs rob every person, man, woman, and child of their beauty. Drugs turn people into animals who can only respond to instincts. Drugs are so powerful they eradicate the God in both the taker and the giver.

Sister Souljah

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#82. Success honors the giver, and the taker is cheated by demise.

T.F. Hodge

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#83. I'm a risk taker, so I have come to accept that at times I will fail. To me, that is better than not trying at all.

Cara Santana

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#84. Silence is a giver; it gives some things to you! Noise is a taker; it takes some things from you! Seek for the silence!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#85. This is me, asking a risk-taker like you to trust me. To let me love you until I take my last breath. These were my last solo flights. From now on I want to wing everything with you and only you.

Robin Bielman

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#86. Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which the census-taker visits, and summons the savage there to surrender.

Henry David Thoreau

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#87. Life gives to the give and takes from the taker.

Mark Victor Hansen

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#88. A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

Ann Bancroft

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#89. I'm a taker in terms of jokes. I love to hear a good joke, but I don't retain jokes. I'm not a good teller of jokes.

Steve Carell

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#90. I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.

Rainbow Rowell

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#91. I don't know why Glenn Murray took the penalty. I suppose because he is our penalty taker.

Gus Poyet

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#92. You will never be a greater risk-taker in the markets if you approach life with a completely different attitude.

Henrique M. Simoes

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#93. Faith is having a good opinion of God. That God is a good God. He is not a taker but a give!!!

Joseph Prince

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#94. Driven to design by what she refers to as the lack of glamour in the industry, Bar Or creates for the modern woman who is a fashion risk-taker, one who is confident and, perhaps, has a larger than life personality.

Aslaug Magnusdottir

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#95. He was just a taker. She was a taker in her way too. They were taking each other, and they loved each other for that. -June Havoc

Karen Abbott

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#96. Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer.

Fran Lebowitz

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#97. The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. ... The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.

Daniel Quinn

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#98. I'm a risk taker and i've always been like that that, especially when it comes to fashion

Christina Aguilera

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#99. Jerk equals narcissist.Narcissists tend to be risk takers. Risk takers happen to do better in general in businesses. So jerk equals narcissist, equals risk taker.

Eric Bolling

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#100. I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in this world. I was a fighter of windmills. I was a chaser of whales.

Percival Everett

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