The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
Control was just wishful thinking, and you controlled things to hedge your bets, to be safe, to guard against loss.
Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.
I'm not a huge risk taker. I think that, for me, I take certain kinds of risks, but if you look at me, you wouldn't say I was a big risk taker. I'm not going to jump out of an airplane and parachute and things like that. That's not really me.
I have no intention of making small bets.
A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
An actor always goes to the safe side.
I’m hedging my bets. We got campaign contributions to both sides.
George Bush is trying to play it both ways.
I'm always trying to do as many different things as I can, just so when one is not doing so hot, maybe the other is still there.
He who walks in the middle of the roads gets hit from both sides.
It's always been my philosophy to keep a lot of balls in the air. With music, most things don't pan out, so you try to increase your odds by being involved with a million things at once.
I want a priest, a rabbi and a Protestant minister. I want to hedge my bets.
