A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.
~By George Lucas ~
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 ~
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 ~
I've always been extremely lucky in playing with great people who knew much more than I did. That's how I got from there to here.
~By Steve Lacy ~
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 ~
Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
~By Gabriele Nanni ~
In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points.
~By Rich Lowry ~
I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
~By Brian Eno ~
Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
~By Zbigniew Brzezinski ~
I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books to really grab you in.
~By Jason Marsden ~
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 ~
Justice in the extreme is often unjust.
~By Jean Racine ~
I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.
~By Henri Matisse ~
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 ~
Women are extremely important shapers of my own life.
~By Tony Hillerman ~
I always go extreme ways.
~By Niki Lauda ~
I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA.
~By Laurie Anderson ~
Extreme law is often extreme injustice.
~By Terence ~
If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.
~By David Cameron ~
People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.
~By Vincent D'Onofrio ~
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.
~By Richard Thompson ~
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 ~
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 ~
I have prayed to God that he give me the strength to survive each day and to face those times in my life that will be extremely painful. I have put my total faith in God, and he will take care of me.
~By Susan Smith ~
It's such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space... we're doing such exciting research. And I don't want to overemphasize the life science research, but as a physician the life science research that we're doing is extremely exciting.
~By Laurel Clark ~
War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.
~By Dennis Weaver ~
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 ~
Even with the quality of players that we have, they're an extremely hard side to break down and once they get on top of you, you find it difficult to stem the flow of attacks.
~By Frank Lampard ~
Throughout the course of my life, I've been blessed to work with extremely talented people.
~By George Dzundza ~
I wasn't thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.
~By Graham Nash ~
I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy.
~By Claire Danes ~
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 ~
Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.
~By George Lucas ~
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
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 ~
We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme temperatures in the past.
~By Louise Slaughter ~
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 ~
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 ~
We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.
~By Richard Dawkins ~
When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out.
~By Iris Chang ~
These are extremely talented actors who are all putting their talents into the Lost in Space movie.
~By Mark Goddard ~
Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.
~By Amy Tan ~
Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
~By Jim Fiebig ~
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 ~
I worked very hard on me and David's record and I'm extremely proud of the record, as most people are who were involved with it. And, it's been wonderfully received by people who like our kind of music, they think it's something special, and so do I.
~By Graham Nash ~
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
~By James A. Baldwin ~
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 ~
In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.
~By Roy Hattersley ~
The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.
~By Francis Wright ~
And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.
~By Gabriel Byrne ~
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
~By Anton Chekhov ~
The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.
~By Jennifer Granholm ~
It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find.
~By Leon Uris ~
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 ~
Extremes are dangerous.
~By Jonathan Mayhew ~
We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.
~By Rutherford B. Hayes ~
To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship.
~By Robert Byrd ~
If I'm going to do anything extreme, I want it to have consequences.
~By Evan R. Wood ~
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 ~
We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
~By T. Boone Pickens ~
It's funny, though, because when I first started going to races after we met, I was extremely nervous. It's like being backstage and hoping you don't trip over something or break an amp or accidentally speak into a live microphone, so I was really hesitant.
~By Ashley Judd ~
I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.
~By Robert Smith ~
As you may know my use of Celtic music is extremely simple and short. However there is something about it that will remain in your mind for a long, long time.
~By Nobuo Uematsu ~
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 ~
It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
~By Stephen Fry ~
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 ~
The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
~By Billy Graham ~
However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
~By Wilhelm von Humboldt ~
Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally.
~By George Woodcock ~
I think all women should learn how to strip. It's a really healthy, extremely challenging thing to do.
~By Sandra Oh ~
It's extremely important to have a loyal fan base and be receptive to them.
~By Mike McCready ~
One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.
~By Rex Stout ~
I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.
~By Yancy Butler ~
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 ~
We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.
~By Jim Carrey ~
If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals.
~By Ron Chernow ~
So when I'm working out I do things extreme.
~By Taylor Dayne ~
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
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 ~
I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time.
~By Jock Sturges ~
Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.
~By Jean Rostand ~
An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice.
~By John McCarthy ~
The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community.
~By Adam Schiff ~
It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.
~By Breyten Breytenbach ~
There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.
~By Kenny Guinn ~
Oh, I realize it's a penny here and a penny there, but look at me: I've worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
~By Arthur Sheekman ~
British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.
~By Jean-Jacques Annaud ~
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.
~By Malcolm Wallop ~
The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard.
~By Jim Bunning ~
The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
~By Al Franken ~
But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.
~By Nathaniel Smith ~
We expect that in the next years, the economy will improve. And we expect that extreme poverty will drop from 22 percent to 11 percent by the year 2000.
~By Alberto Fujimori ~
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 ~
How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.
~By Lytton Strachey ~
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 ~
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~
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