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Quotes About Dangerous

I felt good when I did a stunt, and if it was really dangerous - like if I got out on a horse or a bull that was rank, or jumped out of this building on a bag - I felt great.
~ Burt Reynolds
I'm kind of hard to double, but I did have one guy for a while as my double. I kind of like to do my own stunts, though, because it's just the overall experience. Sometimes you have to step aside when the stuff gets really dangerous, but I feel like sometimes you have to do your own stunts to make the role seem real.
~ Michael Madsen
Arresting and detaining these dangerous people can make sense, at least until a final decision is reached on their deportation. However, such detention must always be subject to time limits and court review.
~ Otto Schily
I'm not a big believer in the power of more regulation to fix things. I think it can almost be more dangerous because it provides the illusion that things have been fixed without the substance.
~ Bethany McLean
It has become much more difficult to smuggle dangerous substances across our borders over the past three years, and this is creating real problems for drug traffickers.
~ John Walters
'War and Peace' holds a strange place in literary history, participating in the crowning of realism as a substantial and serious literary mode in America, even as the novel also contributed to the argument that historical fiction could be by nature dangerous, illegitimate, and inaccurate.
~ Alexander Chee
War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.
~ Robert Runcie
If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed.
~ Lewis H. Lapham
I like racism above the ground so it can be dealt with, but when it's subversive and subjugated, it gets real dangerous.
~ Eddie Griffin
From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
~ Carl Schurz
Those who make their patriotism a vehicle for intolerance are very dangerous.
~ Unknown
Fear clouds your mind, it distracts your thoughts, to survive in dangerous times you must learn to supress it and think.
~ Unknown
You will see this book takes twists and turns. Welcome to the pinball machine of my mind. Here, authenticity lives with eccentricity. A delicious diet, if a bit unsteady. My poems, my puns, my spiritual side trips, and the names of friends, both famous and infamous, dropped along the way – I can't stop myself. I can't help myself. So come along. It's dangerous, but indulge me. We will travel with lightning speed because I've led a lightning-speed life.
~ Val Kilmer
It is dangerous to asume that people can be trusted to behave in a rational way (...) What the probers are looking for, of course, are the "whys" of our behavior, so that they can more effectively manipulate our habits and choices in their favor.
~ Vance Packard
Few things are more dangerous to a person's integrity than having nothing to do and plenty of time in which to do it.
~ Unknown
I must make notes even now, I must, no matter how dangerous it is. That is my professional courage.
~ Victor Klemperer
We live in a beauty-obsessed culture, which on one hand is absolutely fabulous, but on the flip side, is also dangerously extreme.
~ Nicolas Winding Refn
He looked like a fallen angel, replete with all the dangerous male beauty that Lucifer could devise.
~ Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Winter
That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.
~ Samuel Richardson
I greatly fear some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends.
~ Nathan Hale
I never personalize anything because I think that can be dangerous. For me, the best way is - this may sound pretentious - but its to breathe the character and get into the psychology of it.
~ Imogen Poots
In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses.
~ Marshall McLuhan
I've been around Hollywood and filmmaking long enough to know that it's a tricky dangerous business when you go on camera, you got to watch yourself.
~ Wayne White
Convictions in our ideas is dangerous not only because it leaves us vulnerable to false positives, but also because it stops us from generating the requisite variety to reach our creative potential.
~ Adam Grant, Originals