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"First, we did rank everybody by risk, and New York comes out number one."
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"If you are trying to look clean, neat and avoid casting your nets in trouble waters, you will catch no fish."
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"I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me."
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"Niggard prefers mistake rather than loss."
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"You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"
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"Don't play on safe, you must learn few rules and the other is just lessons."
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"Risk is the stuff that sucks the predictability right out of the very things that we desperately wish were predictable."
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"Be courageous! Never fear to take a chance."
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"I have set my life upon a cast,And I will stand the hazard of the die."
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"You play with ice - you get cold.You play with fire - you get burnt.you play with me - you get lucky."
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"It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose. In this lies the immense passion, the great advantage of avoiding a materialistic, pleasure-filled way of life."
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"We may have to force people to get together in terms of picking a particular type of technology and starting to build to that technology, as opposed to everybody exercising their right to buy their own system, you know, at will."
Technology
"And I have to say, I agree with some of the criticisms that some have made about that state program which allocates the grant money on a very rigid formula all across the country, with a certain percentage to each state."
Money
"The second is there are some communities that we thought originally would take mobile homes that have decided they don't want them. And we're not going to cram mobile homes down the throats of communities in Louisiana and the Gulf - and other parts of the Gulf Coast."
Thought
"So, all during the '90s and, you know, for the first half of this decade, we had opportunities to get evacuation plans in place, better communications in place."
Crisis
"And one of the things I want to say, Wolf, is we're 100 days from hurricane season, and we've got to start focusing on what we're going to do to make ourselves ready for the next hurricane."
Want
"The larger point is this: We've invested over half a billion dollars in New York since this department was stood up. We've given New York more money, by more than double, than any other city in the country."
Money
"But I think the bottom line right now is to take the constructive criticism and use that to build toward, as I say, the hurricane season that is 100 days away. And we don't have a lot of time to waste before we start to address that next set of challenges."
Time
"Now, I'm not suggesting we're going to wait 40 years or even four years, but I think we have to put in perspective the fact that we've come quite a distance. We have quite a distance to come - go, as well."
Fact
"And if we make the process political, if we start to make it personal, we're actually going to frustrate good public policy, in terms of managing this money."
Money
"Well, I mean, Congress did originally set the formula for the state grants, and they guaranteed every state a minimum formula. So that was a congressional decision."
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