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Tag Name "Averse" (32)

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I'm not averse to being tied up in silk scarves. I like a man to take charge. There's something very sexy about being submissive.
Eva Longoria
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Term limits would make Congress bolder, more independent, and less risk-averse.
George Will
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I had accumulated some capital and was at an age at which I was interested in generating income. But even though I was risk averse, I was interested in growth stocks.
James MacArthur
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I also am not particularly risk-averse - I don't mind jumping off a cliff if I trust the people who've told me they'll catch me at the bottom.
Jeff VanderMeer
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Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude. I am therefore utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territory, and heartily wish that every Constitutional measure may be adopted for the preservation of it.
John Adams
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To no kind of begging are people so averse, as to begging pardon that is, when there is any serious ground for doing so.
Julius Charles Hare
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I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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I've always been very averse to innuendo, especially sexual. I find it cowardly or something.
Norm MacDonald
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Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.
Samantha Power
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People who are over-educated become risk-averse.
Tamara Mellon
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The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.
Terry Eagleton
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Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.
Tom Bodett
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God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.
Aeschylus
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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.
Alexander Pope
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Im not averse to helping Wall Street when it helps Main Street.
Ben Nelson
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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
Donald Rumsfeld
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The Führer confirms my impressions of yesterday. He would like an understanding with Great Britain. He knows that war with the British will be hard and bloody, and knows also that people everywhere today are averse to bloodshed.
Franz Halder
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The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile.
Horace
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I've never been averse to a little risk - after all, writing without risk is not really writing at all. Sometimes one has to just let fly with a high concept piece and see where the pieces fall. As it generally turns out, the central story is familiar, but just with different rules of engagement.
Jasper Fforde
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We've become a country that is often risk averse. That's not the way to succeed.
Jerry Moran
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Being a mum is something that's never bothered me too much. I have never felt a strong need to have children, but I am not averse to it either.
Julia Sawalha
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By and large, people are sort of technologically averse in the political space.
Mike McCurry
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Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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And now when we hear that Iran and Iraq plan to cooperate more closely and that a fundamentalist is coming to power in Tehran - a man about whom we cannot be sure that he is absolutely averse to terrorism - it is very worrisome.
Otto Schily
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