The problem with hypothetical risks is, when do they become rational and when do they pass into the boundary of the irrational?
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MICHAEL DIRDA The goal is to really blur the line. Can you perform a magic trick in a way that someone doesn't...
MICHAEL CARBONARO Roja Dove - who, at 58, is a stock-straight six feet and handsome with lantern jaw, blue eyes, and i...
MICHAEL PATERNITI There are no bona fide treatments available for embryonic stem cells. There is nothing in the labora...
MICHAEL BURGESS And they talk about their bona fide doctors. They have a list of doctors that signed affidavits from...
MICHAEL SCHIAVO From an early age, I had always loved drawing. Laying on the floor, in front of the fire, drawing fr...
MICHAEL FOREMAN You can bend it and twist it... You can misuse and abuse it... But even God cannot change the Truth.
MICHAEL LEVY The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor...
MICHAEL CAINE I see tendencies, I see body language.
MICHAEL CHANG In some ways, calm bodily protest has a nakedness to it that may be deeply embarrassing for observer...
MICHAEL LEUNIG Before I started writing about food, my focus was really on the human relationship to plants. Not on...
MICHAEL POLLAN Not that I'm some rocker, but what I do in a show is probably far more aggressive than what Dean...
MICHAEL BUBLE I was lucky enough to have great mentors both in the culinary world and in the world of chefs who be...
MICHAEL SYMON Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.
MICHAEL PHILLIPS Underlying these novel debt structures were the human emotions of greed and fear that led to abuses ...
MICHAEL LEWITT My brothers used to call me Bob. They'd laugh at me, and I didn't get it. I'm 13 years o...
MICHAEL STRAHAN 'Boardwalk' has kind of exposed me to a different demographic. And it upped my skills in ter...
MICHAEL PITT 'Boardwalk' begins literally on the first day of Prohibition, which I think was a wonderful ...
MICHAEL PITT There's nothing routine about 'Boardwalk Empire.' It's like being in some secret soc...
MICHAEL SHANNON