It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.
~By Paul Wellstone ~
So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It's an empire. There's no two ways about it. It's a huge empire. It's been extremely successful.
~By John Perkins ~
I loved playing Go Go, because the character's so extreme. And she's pretty close to my real character. Especially the fact that she liked her sword with a lot of accessories.
~By Chiaki Kuriyama ~
You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.
~By Ted Olson ~
So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.
~By Gerald Scarfe ~
My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.
~By Susan Lucci ~
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.
~By Fred Melamed ~
Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really began to write music, he still was guided very much by his internal hearing, by what we call your internal ear.
~By Leo Ornstein ~
I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together.
~By Stanley Crouch ~
Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.
~By Benjamin Tucker ~
I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
Well, I think any national championship is an extremely important championship to play in.
~By Greg Norman ~
Extremes are dangerous.
~By Jonathan Mayhew ~
I have been extremely pleased to support the Trust's work in the Lupus Unit ever since. Personal experience also motivated me to become involved to help raise the awareness of the disease and hopefully thereby improve the speed of diagnosis.
~By Elaine Paige ~
I am an extremely private person. I always feel that I come across as a caricature of myself whenever I do interviews.
~By Mia Kirshner ~
This does make me very very careful, particularly in the second draft, to get it right, because you do feel that somebody in the future who may be extremely important for everybody, is going to have me behind them, and this is a responsibility, a huge one.
~By Diana Wynne Jones ~
With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high.
~By Thomas E. Mann ~
Well, I think a lot of people only hear about the extreme, fundamentalist kind of polygamists, because they're always in the news being brought up on charges.
~By Jeanne Tripplehorn ~
I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.
~By Larry Dixon ~
To me, nothing is more fascinating or theatrical than real life. These people are in dire situations, where something extreme has happened in their lives.
~By Debra Messing ~
Throughout the course of my life, I've been blessed to work with extremely talented people.
~By George Dzundza ~
Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.
~By Benoit Mandelbrot ~
I'm a bit of a worrier, to an extreme. I'll crack a joke, then worry if I've offended someone - even when they're laughing. I have a guilt complex, always worrying.
~By Sophia Bush ~
Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction.
~By George G. Simpson ~
It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find.
~By Leon Uris ~
I think I'm extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like you're getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that.
~By Skeet Ulrich ~
While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress.
~By Halle Berry ~
Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.
~By Sun Tzu ~
Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.
~By Gary Cherone ~
I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.
~By Gary Cherone ~
Yes, our tree has an interesting shape. The center branches reflect the shape of the zero curve. When extreme parts of the tree are reached the branching pattern changes to accommodate the mean reversion.
~By John Hull ~
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
~By Robert Kennedy ~
When I was in college there was a girls' flag football league. The girls were extremely aggressive.
~By Lynn Swann ~
These are extremely talented actors who are all putting their talents into the Lost in Space movie.
~By Mark Goddard ~
People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.
~By Joseph Butler ~
All of my activities are so pedestrian. The extreme sport I play is ping pong. And we play it hard. If any of you suckers want to step up to the table, be ready.
~By Seth Green ~
Shortly after this, I placed my command on our extreme left, to watch and fight the enemy should he make another attack, and went to Cemetary Hill for observation.
~By John Buford ~
There's always going to be that pressure when you're in front of the camera. When you're famous it's just an extreme version of reality and there's a pressure to look a certain way.
~By Geri Halliwell ~
Roseanne was incredible to work with. She was extremely bright.
~By Sarah Chalke ~
In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.
~By Naomi Weisstein ~
I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.
~By Pete Stark ~
Country music fans are extremely supportive. Once they're with you, they're with you for life.
~By Faith Hill ~
I was extremely aggressive from the start.
~By Emerson Fittipaldi ~
One important measurement issue concerns the fat tails problem that I mentioned earlier. VAR is concerned with extreme outcomes. If the tails of the probability distributions we are using are too thin, our VAR measures are likely to be too low.
~By John Hull ~
I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely challenging and dark within their way.
~By Josh Lucas ~
I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.
~By Robert Ludlum ~
I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.
~By Henry Bessemer ~
As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.
~By Augusten Burroughs ~
Justice in the extreme is often unjust.
~By Jean Racine ~
The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything.
~By Elihu Root ~
To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve.
~By Charlotte Rampling ~
In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work rather than the sales and marketing.
~By Peter Sotos ~
I think the director is becoming more important. To work under rushed conditions, you need to have an extremely professional director. If the director's good than the end result will be good.
~By Glenn Ford ~
The spiritual quest was always the predominant aspect of my life. It's always been there. But there's also an incredible passion connected to it; it's not just a dry investigative process. I have been extremely emotional about it, and that comes out in the songs.
~By Cat Stevens ~
In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.
~By Roy Hattersley ~
Our goal is to show that you can develop a robust, safe manned space program and do it at an extremely low cost.
~By Burt Rutan ~
Texas has been hit especially hard this year by a continuing drought, threatening high winds and increasingly destructive range fires. Simply, these conditions have lead to extremely adverse conditions in the agriculture industry.
~By Michael McCaul ~
You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise.
~By James Newman ~
I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.
~By Madeleine Stowe ~
It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.
~By Neil Jordan ~
I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.
~By Satish Kumar ~
One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.
~By Emma Goldman ~
Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.
~By Eugene Field ~
It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
~By Twyla Tharp ~
The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
~By Bono ~
Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.
~By Herman Kahn ~
I will say this, - though: If it is true that fusion will put unlimited amounts of energy into our hands, then I'm worried. Our record on this score is extremely poor.
~By David R. Brower ~
There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
Nonetheless, the research budgets of the Department of Defense are under enormous stress-and they are extremely important because they support more than 40 percent of all federal funding for engineering schools across the country. So the threat was and is real.
~By Charles Vest ~
People really feel the need to share how the series has touched their lives, and that's been very moving. We're enormously grateful to the fans of the show. They've been extremely loyal to us season after season, and they make it all worthwhile.
~By Roma Downey ~
Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
~By Francois Fenelon ~
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
~By Plato ~
The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about.
~By Jane Mayer ~
British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.
~By Jean-Jacques Annaud ~
Ladies and gentlemen, I take office at a time in which the world is living in extreme contradictions.
~By Gustav Heinemann ~
When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.
~By Jennifer Granholm ~
Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.
~By Vinton Cerf ~
The first time, where Fox Mulder and Scully met, she stands up for herself. She stands right there and gives it to him and that was extremely attractive.
~By Gillian Anderson ~
This fact immediately suggested a singular event - that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an extremely small size. To many people this inference was loaded with overtones of a supernatural event - the creation, the beginning of the universe.
~By Michael Behe ~
Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.
~By John Cusack ~
The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme.
~By John Buford ~
In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.
~By Gary Cherone ~
The Democratic Party is a house of many mansions. It is a body which is extremely important in representing all kinds of people in all parts of the country who have very broad and very different views.
~By John Dingell ~
We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them.
~By Kenneth Branagh ~
War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.
~By Dennis Weaver ~
The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
~By Billy Graham ~
Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
~By Frances McDormand ~
After things started to happen here, my choice of material was extremely limited. It was a weird situation.
~By Nancy Sinatra ~
I am extremely proud of my service with the government and my efforts to help safeguard public health and protect our country against the scourge of offensive biological warfare.
~By Steven Hatfill ~
We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.
~By Henry Lawson ~
They wanted Bridgette to be this extremely enigmatic character. Im about the least enigmatic person on the planet, so I just thought what I did on the show was boring.
~By Margot Kidder ~
No violent extreme endures.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
And as far as the Disney Concert hall is concerned, it is a wonderful modern structure and I am extremely honored that I had this opportunity to have a concert here.
~By Nobuo Uematsu ~
Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ~
I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work.
~By Craig Johnston ~
Mount Harris is of basaltic formation, but I could not observe any columnar regularity in it, although large blocks are exposed above the ground. The rock is extremely hard and sonorous.
~By Charles Sturt ~
That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty.
~By Jasmine Guy ~
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