I was the guy who didn't get a cool little apartment. I took one for the team. I liked having the place we could make noise in, the place that could be the center of the music. I sat down and calculated it one day, and over the years, I've had something like 38 roommates.
Adam Granduciel
The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.
Alexander Haig
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
Andre Malraux
I have to stop and think about everything I do. I'm very calculated in a lot of ways.
Andrea Navedo
Sometimes, I think 'The Spectator' is calculated to embarrass me.
Andrew Neil
The beauty about my career is that none of it was really calculated.
Angie Martinez
When I first started writing comics, in the way-back days, Typhoid Mary was my explosive response to women characters in comics - I made her an innocent virginal type, a clever, dark, liberated woman, and as Bloody Mary, a feminist bent of punishing men - all in one character. She was an instinctual rather than a calculated creation.
Ann Nocenti
I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
Anne Tyler
'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth.
Annie Besant
Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'
Ashton Kutcher
They say that I'm very calculated and not very sensitive - that a regular, average person, there are many things that bother them, and I don't see or feel it.
Ayelet Shaked
I'm pretty good with being calculated in what I do, when I'm going to make my mark on somebody.
Baron Corbin
Each individual piece is a calculated attempt to entice women to add to their wardrobe.
Bill Blass
Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
Charles Duhigg
My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country.
Charles Tupper
I always like a woman in power in politics. I think they're pretty inspirational in terms of looks to begin with. It's very calculated.
Chris Benz
'The Green Lantern' seems a little calculated to me. It's like, 'We've got to get on this gay bandwagon and make this character gay.' Like anything else, there's earnest expressions in the culture and then there's kind of bandwagoning.
Christopher McCulloch
All women, whatever be their position, should demand political equality as a means of a freer life, and one calculated to yield rich blessings to society.
Clara Zetkin
Coming into 'The Bachelorette,' I always led with a calculated mind and not an open heart.
Colton Underwood
The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state.
Craig Benson
For me, the food I like to make is the food I can enjoy all the time anytime. It's not too calculated or technical.
Most of the moments of our life - and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three seconds long; that means that, you know, in a life there are about 600 million of them; in a month, there are about 600,000 - most of them don't leave a trace.
Time and again, players lose because they make rash decisions. Therefore, you always have to remind yourself - don't hurry. Embarking on a risky combination that cannot be calculated to the end is certainly not the right thing to do.
The joy of viewing land, the hope of in a few days ranging through the long wished-for spot and the pleasure of again resuming my wonted employment may be readily calculated.
When I take a risk, I like it to be a calculated risk, meaning I make it as small as possible.
Maybe we're kind of predisposed to think that anything a politician does is calculated and therefore suspect.
We are exploring creative models to pursue innovation outside the confines of our normal process, taking calculated risks and learning from them.
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that plastic! So I switched to bamboo toothbrushes years ago.
It's not that you can do this calculated move to try to further your career. You just follow what's in your heart, and later you look back and go, 'I was either really dumb or really smart, I can't believe I did that.'
At Harman, we had to reinvent ourselves so that we can compete on a global playing field. We did it by instituting a culture where teams can take calculated risks. But to inspire such a shift in mindset requires meaningful rewards across the ranks and freedom to experiment and innovate. I like to think of it as our courage culture.
Congressional opposition to immigration reform or emergency funds doesn't stem from any philosophical objections or differences of principle. It stems from a calculated, petty, selfish rejection of anything Obama proposes.
I've never been reckless - it's always calculated. I'm mischievous, but I'm calculated.
I'm mischievous, but I'm calculated.
Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions.
I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.
A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.
There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.
There will always be a measure of calculated risk-taking in manufacturing fame, especially in a deeply divided political climate.
I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
You have to know how to read your lie and take a calculated risk when you hit out of the rough.
The worst is when men try too hard, because it's not very masculine. Your outfit has to look like 'Oh, I just grabbed that.' Not too calculated. Jeans, a t-shirt: the simpler the better.
Maybe if I really believe in me, trust me without any calculated plan, who knows what will happen?
I might act like it's an accident but the opposite is true. I'm incredibly calculated when it comes to my career.
Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
Whenever people are confronted by a prediction for the future that they simply cannot or will not believe, they always say, 'It will never happen in my lifetime.' If the prediction is something they deplore and fear, they say it with calculated bravado, often adding a smug, snorty hhrrummph.
I think to the extent you die with money in the bank, you've miscalculated.
Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.
Our fiat currency is under increasing stress with our large and growing trade deficits. We have a federal deficit that is calculated in the trillions when we take into account the net present value of the future Social Security and Medicaid obligations we are creating today.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
If I couldn't compete, I wouldn't ride. I don't ride for fun; I ride to prepare for the next competition, and everything that I do when I am in the saddle is always a calculated step in my path to the next win.
