quotes about Extremes
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Im a combination between extreme insecurity and extreme confidence.
-- Alexandra Daddario -
I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past.
-- Berthe Morisot -
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Being in a war situation is probably the most extreme situation for a human being to be in.
-- Boaz LavieSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all.
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Extreme nationalism objectifies and dehumanizes those from other countries.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
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The extreme always seems to make an impression.
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The political system loves the extremes, it doesnt so much show a lot love for the moderates.
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War is the most extraordinary, extreme human experience.
-- Dan Snow -
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I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.
-- Danny BoyleSource : Lawrence Block (2011). “The Bernie Rhodenbarr Mysteries: Volume Two”, p.49, Hachette UK
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extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
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A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.
-- Eric RiesSource : "What is a startup?". www.startuplessonslearned.com. June 21, 2010.
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If I'm going to do anything extreme, I want it to have consequences.
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I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
-- Fay Weldon -
I'm a very emotional person, a person of real extremes, and that's often destructive both to myself and others.
-- Freddie Mercury -
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Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror
-- Georges Bataille -
Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]
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I find fame to be quite unnatural. Humans are not built for extreme adoration.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith -
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Extremes are ever neighbors; 'tis a step from one to the other.
-- James Sheridan KnowlesSource : James Sheridan Knowles (1848). “The Hunchback: A Play in Five Acts. With the Author's Latest Corrections”, p.17
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Our visibility shouldn’t be subject to such extreme circumstances.
-- Janet Mock -
The idea of the extreme makeover is disturbing.
-- Janice Dickinson -
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Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.
-- Jean Racine -
Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.
-- Jean-Francois Lyotard -
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When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.
-- Jennifer Granholm -
I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional.
-- Jeremy Grantham -
Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it; nor at any time in the extremes of it.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
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We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government.
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Extremes are dangerous.
-- Jonathan MayhewSource : Jonathan Mayhew (1750). “A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers: With Some Reflections on the Resistance Made to King Charles I, and on the Anniversary of His Death: in which the Mysterious Doctrine of the Princes' Saintship and Martyrdom is Unriddled: the Substance of which was Delivered in a Sermon Preached in the West Meeting-house in Boston the Lord's-day After the 30th of January, 1749/50...”, p.55
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There is no vice which humankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
-- Jonathan Swift -
Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.
-- Joseph Stiglitz -
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Mitt Romney has undergone an extreme makeover, and it ain’t pretty.
-- Julian Castro -
I dont follow trends. I set my own and I go for the extreme.
-- JWoww -
Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
I'm really into extreme sports and just having fun.
-- Kellan Lutz -
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I'd love to do a movie like 'The Machinist.' It's an extreme movie but it takes you to a place that is quite impressive.
-- Kellan Lutz -
When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as far as you need to.
-- Kiran DesaiSource : "A passage from India", www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2006.
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One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!
-- Lea Thompson -
The young are always in extremes.
-- Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleySource : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.62
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Any color works if you push it to the extreme.
-- Massimo Vignelli -
I suppose I've got a reputation for playing quite extreme characters and making them quite believable.
-- Michael Sheen -
There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
-- Michel de Montaigne -
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The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.
-- Miguel -
I'm Rally of Unionist Separist Extremes, sometimes known as the R.U.S.E. … It's the party at present in power.
-- Peter Ustinov -
Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment.
-- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos -
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It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.
-- Richard PrestonSource : Richard Preston (2012). “The Hot Zone: The Chilling True Story of an Ebola Outbreak”, p.98, Random House
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I like things that are unique and extreme.
-- Rick RubinSource : Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com.
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When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
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The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
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Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme.
-- Santiago Ramon y Cajal -
We are only as good as our most extreme experiences
-- Sloane Crosley -
Happiness expanded like an explosion inside me – so extreme, so violent that I wasn’t sure I’d survive it.
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Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas.
-- Steven Rattner -
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Change is most sluggish at the extremes precisely because the derivative is zero there.
-- Steven StrogatzSource : Steven Strogatz (2012). “The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Mathematics, from One to Infinity”, p.116, Atlantic Books Ltd
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I'm a very safe person, probably to the extreme.
-- Taylor WilsonSource : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
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I deserve, certainly, the most extreme punishment society has and society deserves to be protected from me and from others like me, that's for sure.
-- Ted Bundy -
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Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.
-- Trent Reznor -
All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
-- Virginia Woolf -
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No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.
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I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.
-- Yael NaimSource : "Yael Naim Loves Rihanna Too". Interview with Nojan Aminosharei, www.elle.com. May 10, 2011.
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I was crazy back then, I must admit. I had an extreme attitude.
-- Edwyn CollinsSource : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 17, 2010.
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We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.
-- Lupita Nyong'o -
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Most extreme acts of anti-Semitism go beyond the acts of anti-Semitism by native Europeans.
-- Manfred Gerstenfeld -
Art has always got more and more extreme, and it will continue to get more and more extreme.
-- Marco Pirroni -
I am interested in power and in the idea of one country exerting power over another. The Soviets took this to an extreme.
-- Nicholas Royle -
I don't like caricature. I don't like extreme, I don't like that.
-- Sebastien Foucan -
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Twitter is a place where there is extreme vitriol at all times.
-- Trevor Noah -
Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.
-- Michael Tippett -
For an actor to go to work every day is an extreme blessing.
-- Boyd HolbrookSource : Source: gq.com
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The act of creation can be an extreme violent experience.
-- Nicolas Winding RefnSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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The things that I have loved have always been those extremes where there has been some kind of apocalypse in the person's life, and they come out unscathed or scathed.
-- Scott McClanahanSource : "Indie author Scott McClanahan considers art and anecdote through 5 of his favorite books". Interview with Phil McCausland, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.