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Upside of being an attractive woman; if you're remotely intelligent, people will treat you like you're brilliant. Downside: same thing. -- Dov Davidoff
There is a downside to having one of the biggest-selling albums ever. -- Carole King
Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good. -- Jeff Bridges
Cornwall is one of the most beautiful places, with great people - there's not a great downside to it. -- Tori Amos
Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination. -- Mary Douglas
Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline. -- Philip Roth
It's only when the markets are perceived to have exhausted themselves on the downside that they turn. Trying to prevent them from going down just merely prolongs the agony. -- Alan Greenspan
Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career. -- Mark Messier
Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced. -- David Mitchell
That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each. -- Dick Thornburgh
I think that the Information Age is great, but there's a downside to it obviously as well, and it's that false information can be perpetuated so quickly. And it's sad that so many people will believe it. -- Josh Hopkins
Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings. -- Brad Pitt
The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief in the emancipatory nature of online communication that rests on a stubborn refusal to admit its downside. -- Evgeny Morozov
I know I live a charmed, beautiful life and nobody wants to hear a celebrity whine. The last thing I want to do is complain; I love what I do and I know every job comes with a downside. -- Jennifer Garner
Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it's a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn't pave the world - it helps to green the world. But the downside is, it uses a lot of fertilizer, pesticides and water. -- Thomas Friedman
Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring. On the downside, you meet a lot of really bad people in boxing, at all stages of your career. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
The downside to becoming a doctor, I think, is it's a very long process; four years of medical school, three years of internship, two years of residency, umpteen years of specialization, and then finally you get to be what you have trained almost all your life for. -- Jim Lee
The only downside to playing the violin is that you never know when you're going to be asked to play. I could be out to dinner or having a drink at a bar, and someone could just give me a violin, and I've got to be ready to play. -- Charlie Siem
It's a bit startling to achieve global recognition before the age of 30 on account of your sister, your brother-in-law and your bottom. One day I might be able to make sense of this. In the meantime I think it's fair to say that it has its upside and its downside. -- Pippa Middleton
I remember the early 1980s, when I first got one of these fabulous film critic jobs. The downside was sitting through 'Splatteria III: The Dismembering of the Clampett Clan' or 'The Oklahoma Meatgrinder Massacre' or some such. The headaches unleashed by watching attractive kids die week after week after week cannot be imagined. -- Stephen Hunter
I don't act because I love doing it, I act because it's my job. At the end of the year, I gotta pay my taxes, bills, doctors, insurance, car insurance, the occasional vacation. It's a wonderful job. The upside is that it is exciting and different... the downside is that it is an extremely insecure job. -- Clint Howard
For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad. -- Jeff Bridges
I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job. -- Bill Murray
Distribution has really changed. You can make a record with a laptop in the morning and have it up on YouTube in the afternoon and be a star overnight. The talent on YouTube is incredible, and it can spread like wildfire. The downside is that it's very hard to convince the younger generation that they should pay for music. -- Bonnie Raitt
I was a halfback on an American football team in Athens, Greece - the Kississia Colts - where I went to high school, and we took the Cup my senior year. The downside, and somewhat unfortunate piece of information I have to pass on, is there were only two teams in the league because of the limited amount of Americans. -- Greg Kinnear
My message is to get human beings to love God, love their neighbor and for the life of me I just don't see the downside of human beings not being so mean to one another and actually care for one another and not steal from one another and not murder each other for their tennis shoes. That's the message I have. -- Phil Robertson
I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility. -- Michael J. Fox
The downside to gun control is genocide. -- John Ross
There's no downside to having too much experience. -- Barry Levinson
Protect the downside. Worry about the margin of safety. -- Peter Cundill
But everything you do in life has a downside. -- Melissa Auf der Maur
Graham liked the idea of protection on the downside. -- Walter Schloss
Manage the downside; the upside will take care of itself -- Donald Trump
There is no downside to winning. It feels forever fabulous. -- Pat Conroy
The downside of playing dumb is that you sound dumb. -- Rachel Maddow
I can't think of a single downside to motherhood now. -- Anna Quindlen
Is there a downside to eating well and getting in shape? -- Heidi Murkoff
The biggest downside to being a novelist is writing the novel. -- Jill Barnett
I don't think virtue has a downside. I think human nature does... -- Catherine Brady
Social comparison that leads to unhappiness is the downside of social media. -- Michelle Gielan
He was experienced enough to spot the downside of doing the right thing. -- Chris Matthews
Any legislator who says he doesn't see the downside hasn't done his homework -- John Warren Kindt
The internet has huge advantages but its downside is the easy access to resources. -- Horace Panter
Shareholders share in the downside and not necessarily in the upside; that's the whole story. -- John Gutfreund
Fame has always been a downside to acting for me. It gives me the creeps. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Of course, the downside of attending a fictional school is that our lacrosse team sucks. -- Ally Carter
But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance. -- Sheryl Sandberg
The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life. -- Donald Miller
I have to be very aware of the increasing downside risks that threaten the overall global situation. -- Ralph Goodale
I think travel is probably the downside of playing professional golf, but you've got to do it. -- Karrie Webb
Everyone has a past, and the downside to my life is that the past gets dragged up. -- Tamara Ecclestone
I think the downside of the Internet is that speaking-or writing-has become the point in and of itself. -- Cate Blanchett
Photography ruins marriages, and I've been married three times - so there's a downside to it as well. -- Jack Welpott
Now I tell you the downside of this is you feel awful, but the upside is you feel terrific. -- Peter Cook
The downside is, if somebody doesn't like it, then it's like "oh my god, ok its really your fault." -- Daniel Simon
As I have found out, recognition has its upside, its downside and - you may say - its backside. -- Pippa Middleton
You want people to be eager for your book; the downside is when the people forget the series even exists. -- George R. R. Martin
Don't look at the downside of everything that comes along. It helps life move along so much smoother and nicer. -- George Smathers
As I have found out, recognition has its upside, its downside and â?? you may say â?? its backside. -- Pippa Middleton
There's no downside to fame and people who whine about it make me sick. It's the greatest thing in the world. -- Jerry Seinfeld
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An interesting attribute of public banks is that they don't only de-risk the downside, but also get a share of the upside. -- Mariana Mazzucato
Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time. -- Stephanie S. Tolan
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Commercials and sometimes other guests - it's the down side of TV. Other people - it's the downside of life in general. -- Fran Lebowitz
But the downside of being con artist is that it very hard to con. Even if the lies you tell are to yourself. -- Ally Carter
It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside. -- Richard Branson
I personally think the downside of being able to change into anything is the fear that you don't know who you really are. -- C.C. Hunter
If I were president, I'd be very glad to see the Palestinians have a nation recognized by the United Nations. There's no downside to it. -- Jimmy Carter
The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven't started yet. -- Aaron Sorkin
Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve. -- Arne Jacobsen
I always tell other people to protect against the downside, and not risk roughing on new ventures, but I never stuck to that rule myself. -- Richard Branson
The downside of being a dean is that I'd rather drop off my son at (Michael Jackson's) Neverland Ranch than go to all those meetings. -- Ergun Caner
The main downside was that it [fame] happened so quickly and I didn't have time to establish what kind of person I wanted to be. -- George Michael
The downside of aging is a slower metabolism and achy joints.The upside is a knowledge of self that prevents one from behaving like a baboon. -- Dov Davidoff
Even at the height of my fame, 50 per cent of the people who saw me wanted a fight; it's the downside of being a star player. -- George Best
But I live an interesting life and I can tell a pretty good story and it has helped my career. But the downside is people know everything. -- Artie Lange
I have everything in my house organized to an unnecessary T, and I love it! The only downside: I have no excuses for losing my to-do lists. -- Ashley Rickards
The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery. -- Greg Rusedski
The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own. -- Carole King
You know, we always tried to rationalize by saying you take the good, you take the upside, you got to deal with the downside, you've to take the downside. -- Julius Erving
For me, the main principle for broadcasters has to be that if people stand to benefit from an interview, they should be prepared to face some downside as well. -- Evan Davis
I'm attracted to working with comedians because they don't have that stars' idea of what a hero should be. The downside is they're always addressing the camera too much. -- Michel Gondry
I don't demonize the downside. As we've seen in Egypt and Tahrir square and other recent event, the adhesiveness through [technology] kinds of communication is extraordinary. Interesting times we live in. -- Anne Waldman
Targeting investment returns leads investors to focus on potential upside rather on downside risk ... rather than targeting a desired rate of return, even an eminently reasonable one, investors should target risk. -- Seth Klarman
It's not your responsibility to have the bigger picture in mind. But, the downside is that then, a lot of times, you're disappointed by the movies that are made around you. -- Alessandro Nivola
That is, many times we're not risking our own money, we're risking somebody else's money, or maybe that someone is going to back stop or downside, but we still get the upside. -- Robert F. Engle
We already know that spam is a huge downside of online life. If we're going to be spammed on our telephones wherever we go, I think we're going to reject these devices. -- Howard Rheingold
I've realized that aging is the younger cousin of dying. ... How much time do I have left? We become aware that we're on the downside of the mountain, coasting toward our final days. -- Elizabeth Lesser
Why do people care what I'm wearing or what I'm eating, and why are people looking down on me because I'm not wearing high heels? That's the downside to being in the public eye. -- Ashley Greene
The great thing about mod_rewrite is it gives you all the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail. The downside to mod_rewrite is that it gives you all the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail. -- Brian Behlendorf
The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away. -- Stephen Hawking
Even if he did explain it, no one would believe him because no one would understand him. That's the downside to being a genius - just because you understand something doesn't mean anyone else will. -- Trenton Lee Stewart

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