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I've been called the journeyman. It's really more by default than it is by design. Chris Squire

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

J. K. Rowling

After everyone has had a chance to bluster, posture, and pontificate, we are left with one basic question: under any foreseeable circumstance, would it be in our national interest to default on our debt? The answer is unequivocally no.

John Sununu

There is a difference between strategic or technical default and default where you really don't have the economy to support the spending. We are not at that point yet. We could be. We could be, like some European nations.

Charles Bass

I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.

Catherine Tate

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Desmond Tutu

My default state is wariness.

Martin Freeman

Fortunately I'm Latin, and I'm born with a little bit of rhythm by default. It's in the DNA. I have that going for me, but I've never been considered one of the world's greatest dancers.

Adam Rodriguez

Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.

Richard Dooling

I was a big fan of 'The Smurfs' growing up, even though by default - my mom used to force me to watch because she was a 'Smurfs' fan.

Jayma Mays

Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.

Chevy Chase

Main Street investors, who cannot trade credit default swaps, should not be tempted to trade an instrument with the same risk profile simply because it has been given a different name.

Daniel L. Doctoroff

The American people were really not 100% convinced that this idea of default was really going to occur, and I think the media, current company excepted here, did not help in that regard because they confused the American people about what default actually meant.

Bill Johnson

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

Jimmy Buffett

What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.

Wendelin Van Draanen

The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government.

Ron Suskind

The best board members aren't elected by default. CEOs that set themselves up with their choice of board member - which means getting more than one term sheet and doing extensive reference checking - are better off.

Scott Weiss

If the Walkman had, by default, silently contacted your friends and told them what you were listening to, not only would no one have bought a Walkman in the first place, its designers would have been viewed with the utmost suspicion.

Charlie Brooker

When you get into investing, your default stance should be 'No,' because most deals suck. Most deals won't make money. Most companies will fail.

Chris Sacca

The best companies with the strongest credit ratings borrow like the United States: on a non-prioritized basis. This means that in the event of a default, all of their debts are of equal priority because lenders and creditors believe default is highly unlikely. And they spend considerable effort maintaining this status.

John Delaney

By nature, my default place is a very introverted one, so it's funny to be in such an extroverted profession. I'm a little inappropriately in it.

Elizabeth Marvel

A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business.

David Bonderman

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Barack Obama

Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rather than the life you have by default.

Joy Page

For the next three years, we're going to see different economies work out different problems. For European economies, especially Greece, it would be through default.

Mohamed El-Erian

Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.

Lucas Papademos

Many of us are under the delusion that the police exist solely to deal with crime and keep us safe. That is to ignore the major focus of many of today's top cops on managing reputation - both of their force and, by default, their careers.

Heather Brooke

I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find them, I create them, but I'm not really a writer.

Sara Gilbert

Default choices often remain unchanged for no reason other than being the default, either because of this lack of information or humans' status quo bias.

Marvin Ammori

I'm no longer in my 20s, and I think, by default, the rose-colored glasses are off.

Sasheer Zamata

I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Make pumpkin bread as the default gift for everyone. It is cheap, it is beloved, it is carbs.

Karen Bender

People like me who are reform-minded ignore the people who say, 'Just criticize and don't do anything and let's win by default.' That's ridiculous.

Paul Ryan

By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.

Ron Suskind

The people that were invested in me staying the same way after a decade will most likely by default have to be disappointed.

Alanis Morissette

My default is e-40 because there's no one else in the world who raps like him. I've always loved e-40.

K. Flay

I made a few records here and there by default, but I wasn't ever comfortable in that role. I wasn't comfortable on stage. We'll see how it goes this time.

T Bone Burnett