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 ~
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 ~
Suddenly a single shot on the extreme left rang out on the clear morning air, followed quickly by several others, and the whole line pushed rapidly forward through the brush.
~By John Gibbon ~
They were keen for me still to play the piano, which I was going to, but 45 minutes of piano would be extremely boring. I like a bit of light and shade.
~By Keith Emerson ~
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 ~
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 ~
My favorite Extreme records were the last two. I can't listen to the first one.
~By Gary Cherone ~
So when I'm working out I do things extreme.
~By Taylor Dayne ~
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 know people watch our movies and they'll see a lot of images - they call it gross-out - that they don't like, and I understand that. It's an important movie and one that's extremely well done, but the amount of violent imagery was not for me.
~By Bobby Farrelly ~
This seems highly likely, especially as it has been shown that in several systems mutations affecting the same amino acid are extremely near together on the genetic map.
~By Francis Crick ~
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 ~
Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account.
~By Anne Wilson Schaef ~
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 ~
I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
~By Groucho Marx ~
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 ~
Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
~By Antonio Porchia ~
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
I just had this notion that I wanted to do the most extreme thing I could and I also very consciously wanted to do something that was very different from Mars because we were all very close.
~By Arto Lindsay ~
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 dare say that a majority of the American people think that having a fair hearing on an issue of importance in our relations with Mexico is extremely important to our national interest, as well as theirs.
~By William Weld ~
Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.
~By Meryl Streep ~
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
~By Anatole France ~
I got rid of my glasses and they changed my hair. That's really all they did. They went shopping for me, so the clothes are different too. It wasn't like Extreme Makeover where I got a nose job or anything.
~By Clay Aiken ~
It is during difficult times like this that the true American spirit reveals itself. I am not talking only of the response of local, state, and federal governments, although they will each play an extremely important role in this effort.
~By Jo Bonner ~
British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.
~By Jean-Jacques Annaud ~
It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.
~By Vivienne Westwood ~
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 ~
The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect.
~By Rene Dubos ~
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 ~
His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day.
~By Mary Antin ~
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 ~
I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time.
~By Jock Sturges ~
I think DOOM had just the right mix of elements that keep people coming back to it: great monsters, excellent weapons with great balance, a spooky environment and extreme speed.
~By John Romero ~
It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
~By Twyla Tharp ~
The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.
~By John B. S. Haldane ~
Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me - I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations.
~By Jane Asher ~
As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.
~By Tommy Franks ~
The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.
~By Edward Bond ~
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 ~
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 word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
~By Billy Graham ~
Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.
~By Dick Cavett ~
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 ~
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 ~
Personally I believe that the courses we followed for some years after World War II were enlightened, surprisingly imaginative and extremely effective.
~By David Bruce ~
War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.
~By Dennis Weaver ~
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 ~
Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.
~By Gloria Estefan ~
I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.
~By Helmut Newton ~
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 ~
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 ~
Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.
~By Michael Tilson Thomas ~
Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
~By Alexander Pope ~
I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready.
~By Mary Garden ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low.
~By Aldrich Ames ~
I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it.
~By John Keegan ~
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
There's the classic charitable contribution, which we receive thousands, and we're extremely grateful and they often come with notes from people, which are very heartwarming, about how much difference our products have made in their life on the Internet.
~By Mitchell Baker ~
In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.
~By Herbert Croly ~
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 ~
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 review process was conducted in an extremely bipartisan manner. Minority members of the Judiciary Committee were responsible for the invitation of 1/3 of the witnesses who appeared.
~By Jo Bonner ~
We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.
~By Nigel Short ~
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 ~
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.
~By David Eddings ~
I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
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 ~
Thirty years ago, in 1976, the notion of organized activity to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity was an extremely controversial one.
~By Robert Brady ~
Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
~By William Feather ~
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 ~
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 ~
After things started to happen here, my choice of material was extremely limited. It was a weird situation.
~By Nancy Sinatra ~
On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience.
~By Maria Monk ~
My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.
~By Paul Nurse ~
One year after the United States led the invasion of Iraq, the country remains extremely dangerous not only to our troops, but also to the stability of the world.
~By Jay Rockefeller ~
I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.
~By Jeremy London ~
Women are extremely important shapers of my own life.
~By Tony Hillerman ~
I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.
~By Irvine Welsh ~
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 ~
A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
~By Karl Marx ~
Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth.
~By Daniel Keys Moran ~
We've got very large freshman class, it's historic in its size, so there's people that are extremely diverse in their backgrounds and their viewpoints. I think that we're going to see a conservative group of people coming together, focused on some real ideals that are going to be extremely important.
~By Kristi Noem ~
It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads.
~By Satish Kumar ~
I feel extremely lucky, extremely grateful, and a little bittersweet, too.
~By Wentworth Miller ~
Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
~By Francois Fenelon ~
If I'm going to do anything extreme, I want it to have consequences.
~By Evan R. Wood ~
Extreme complication is contrary to art.
~By Claude Debussy ~
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 ~
Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.
~By Paul Farmer ~
I was ordered not to go out to Abu Ghraib after dark early on, because Abu Ghraib was extremely dangerous.
~By Janis Karpinski ~
Because I was extremely uncomfortable talking about sex with him at all and particularly in such a graphic way, I told him that I did not want to talk about these subjects.
~By Anita Hill ~
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 ~
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 ~
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