I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.
~By Liam Neeson ~
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
~By James A. Baldwin ~
I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.
~By Aaron Eckhart ~
Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.
~By Terence McKenna ~
The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.
~By Hans Kung ~
In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential - do not let your heart waver!
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.
~By Vinton Cerf ~
But again, you know, the views that we've expressed are transferring power back from the federal government to the states, giving Alaska an incredible opportunity to expand its economy, especially at a time when our federal government is coming close to bankruptcy.So that is a broad-based appeal. It's not an extreme view.
~By Joe Miller ~
We sometimes freeze the specimen with liquid nitrogen, which is extremely cold, you know. This is another technique we use now - but the specimens are not alive.
~By Lennart Nilsson ~
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 ~
He has selected from a group of overwhelming candidates. This candidate was nominated to the Supreme Court because of his extremely overwhelming qualifications.
~By Rod Parsley ~
Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ~
There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.
~By Jean Rostand ~
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 ~
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 ~
The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is in a way the third Gremlins movie.
~By Joe Dante ~
I've really got no complaints about the way I played, just extremely frustrating with the putter and I'm sure there's a lot of other players saying the same thing except the guy who's going to win the golf tournament.
~By Greg Norman ~
I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when It's at its extreme. And that's what they end up knowing about it.
~By Edwidge Danticat ~
My favorite Extreme records were the last two. I can't listen to the first one.
~By Gary Cherone ~
No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.
~By Juvenal ~
Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
And I liked this extreme character of de Sade.
~By Philip Kaufman ~
What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.
~By Billie Joe Armstrong ~
There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.
~By Kenny Guinn ~
By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.
~By Adolf Hitler ~
The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.
~By Sharon Olds ~
What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is "all it does" - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.
~By David Foster Wallace ~
I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
I mean, they're threatening - my career is over. You know, everything I've worked so hard. I've worked extremely hard since about 17 years old, you know, as a White House intern on up.
~By Andrea Mackris ~
It hurts. Frankly, it hurts terribly. I have just lived one of the biggest loss of my career. It will be difficult to digest that moment. It is extremely hard to accept. I am disappointed.
~By Tony Parker ~
The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.
~By June Jordan ~
I was extremely greedy and lost my moral compass.
~By Andrew Fastow ~
I want to question what the outside is and who defines it. I often find those that are considered to be on the outside extremely inspiring.
~By Mira Nair ~
Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.
~By George Chapman ~
There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies.
~By Miroslav Vitous ~
It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.
~By Joe Biden ~
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 ~
Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
~By Gabriele Nanni ~
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~
I was extremely aggressive from the start.
~By Emerson Fittipaldi ~
It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.
~By Vincent Bugliosi ~
Not being a comic book fan, being thrown into that and seeing the extreme - it's taken very seriously. So I tried to do as much learning as I could about it so I wasn't mean or anything.
~By Ashley Scott ~
If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.
~By Ayaan Hirsi Ali ~
People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.
~By Joseph Butler ~
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
A woman asking "Am I good? Am I satisfied?" is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.
~By Barbara Cartland ~
From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.
~By Tammy Bruce ~
Autism is an extremely variable disorder.
~By Temple Grandin ~
I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
~By Kate Clinton ~
One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.
~By Emma Goldman ~
There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.
~By Daniel Smith ~
I will stay very focused on my responsibilities as Secretary of Commerce and the economy's doing well. I mean, you asked about some of the challenges that we have or what is going on in the world and you know I, I'm pleased to report that the economy is doing extremely well.
~By Donald Evans ~
I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.
~By Roscoe Mitchell ~
I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.
~By Tilda Swinton ~
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 ~
So when I'm working out I do things extreme.
~By Taylor Dayne ~
I think the main thing I remembered throughout all of filming it was just that she just was extremely self-destructive. I think everybody can relate to that a little bit. She doesn't like herself.
~By Shannyn Sossamon ~
If there's anything about the business that I love and that I'm extremely happy about, is that my career started at that time and that I met some of the greatest entertainers at that time and some are still here.
~By Ben E. King ~
I'm open to sci-fi, but I was never a diehard fan. I have no idea why it keeps following me. I'm extremely lucky, I guess; it's a lucrative venue.
~By Yancy Butler ~
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
~By William Feather ~
Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed.
~By William Friedkin ~
There were two qualities about the mutual funds of the 1920s that made them extremely speculative. One was that they were heavily leveraged. Two, mutual funds were allowed to invest in other mutual funds.
~By Ron Chernow ~
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 ~
I still love to walk in the mountains or be on the sea. I like to be in nature. Sometimes I bicycle. It's important to feel good with your body. The body is extremely important. If you feel good, you have more energy in your singing.
~By Cecilia Bartoli ~
So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.
~By Gerald Scarfe ~
Women are extremely important shapers of my own life.
~By Tony Hillerman ~
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.
~By Katey Sagal ~
Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.
~By Jurgen Habermas ~
Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today.
~By David Bohm ~
I mean, our primary businesses in wholesale pipelines, utilities, retail, were all doing extremely well.
~By Kenneth Lay ~
It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find.
~By Leon Uris ~
I do think that it's extremely important with this character show her assuming power with a great deal of grace, and find out how to do things she won't like - the things she's called upon to do.
~By Mary McDonnell ~
Remember, things extremely hard to come by are not necessarily good.
~By Joe Chung ~
I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or five years before I arrived here.
~By Miroslav Vitous ~
Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.
~By Edsger Dijkstra ~
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 ~
In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young.
~By Mary Garden ~
The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe, when given a chance, will choose liberty and democracy over enslavement and tyranny.
~By John Ensign ~
The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant.
~By Robert Fortune ~
The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits, and the self-consciousness is one.
~By Jeffrey Eugenides ~
Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.
~By Michael Tippett ~
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 ~
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 ~
I have been extremely lucky; I am a person who is currently living with a cancer that is under control.
~By Geraldine Ferraro ~
I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely strong for me.
~By John Perkins ~
Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.
~By Constance Baker Motley ~
Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.
~By Alan Bullock ~
Social Security is an extremely complicated program.
~By John Thune ~
You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I'll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being.
~By Jim Carrey ~
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 ~
Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.
~By Michael Tippett ~
I think the reason why we were able to actually get it made was that we were so extremely naive - we had no experience at all here. We didn't even know that you were supposed to have an agent. We didn't even have a lawyer. We didn't know one soul.
~By Renny Harlin ~
The most extreme individuals and factions in Islamic countries are now more motivated than ever to kill Americans, and the number of potential terrorists has greatly expanded.
~By John Olver ~
All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
~By Sam Houston ~
In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.
~By Dean Koontz ~
Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive.
~By Helen Reddy ~
It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.
~By Charles Eames ~
Extremes are dangerous.
~By Jonathan Mayhew ~
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