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• One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.

  Danny Boyle

  Cities, Growth, London

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. November 26, 2008.

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• There have been some very extreme hecklers in audiences whose bile was so hateful and so meant that it would be a bit frightening to think that all I'm doing is jokes and yet someone hates me that much.

  Jo Brand

  Hate, Thinking, Would Be

  "Jo Brand: fat jokes matter". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2011.

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• Being in front of a camera, in a nice dress, getting all dressed up is extreme. There's a lot of other extreme situations, you know, just getting out of bed sometimes is extreme - but I do it. Just got to do it, just got to get up. Put your sweatpants on, brush off the dog hair and just get out of the house!

  Sandra Bullock

  Dog, Nice, Hair

  "Sandra Bullock: America's sweetheart at 50" by Lisa Respers France, www.cnn.com. July 26, 2014.

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• 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.

  Robert Byrd

  Speaks Out, People, Liberty

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• The chocolate and crisps come in at times. You have to allow the little things that make you happy. I'm not extreme about what I eat.

  Naomi Campbell

  Chocolate, Littles, Little Things

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• I've seen the real extreme diva behaviour and I don't think that's who I am.

  Mariah Carey

  Real, Thinking, Who I Am

  "Mariah Carey: 'I try not to be a jerk. I really do'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2009.

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• 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.

  Anton Chekhov

  Years, People, Lapses

  "A Journey to Sakhalin". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1895.

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• If the euro zone doesn't come up with a comprehensive vision of its own future, you'll have a whole range of nationalist, xenophobic and extreme movements increasing across the European Union. And, frankly, questions about the British debate on EU membership will just be a small sideshow compared to the rise of political populism.

  Nick Clegg

  Political, Vision, Movement

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• The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.

  John Cornyn

  Long, Enemy, Islam

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• Climate change is a controversial subject, right? People will debate whether there is climate change... that's a whole political debate that I don't want to get into. I want to talk about the frequency of extreme weather situations, which is not political.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Weather, People, Political

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• I write for the people I grew up with. I took extreme pains for my book to not be a native informant. Not: 'This is Dominican food. This is a Spanish word.' I trust my readers, even non-Spanish ones.

  Junot Diaz

  Pain, Book, Writing

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• The idea of the extreme makeover is disturbing.

  Janice Dickinson

  Ideas, Makeovers, Disturbing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have...

  Emma Donoghue

  Parent, Normal, Emotion

  "Frog Music review - Emma Donoghue's sophisticated whodunnit" by Alex Preston, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2014.

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• 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.

  Paul Farmer

  Promise, Care, Poverty

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• Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse.

  James Fenton

  Art, Names, Quality

  "Negative images" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2002.

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• I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital.

  Carrie Fisher

  Imbalance, Chemicals, States

  "PrimeTime: Carrie Fisher Interview". "PrimeTime" with Diane Sawyer, abcnews.go.com. December 21, 2000.

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• 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.

  Al Franken

  Christian, Religious, Thinking

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• There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.

  Stephen Fry

  Doubt, Mood, Knows

  "Stephen Fry: my long battle with manic depression" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2006.

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• Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover either for grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much-cherished aspect of academic freedom.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Freedom, People, Criticism

  "H.L. Mencken: The Baltimore Oracle" by John Kenneth Galbraith, www.washingtonpost.com. September 14, 1980.

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• The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself.

  Ina Garten

  Mother, Dirty, Home

  "Celebrity Chefs' Christmas Treats & Traditions". Interview with Andrew Eccles, www.goodhousekeeping.com. November 8, 2010.

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• We are facing extreme volatility.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Volatility

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• The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years.

  Al Gore

  Couple, Years, Weather

  "Al Gore: 'The message still has to be about the reality we're facing'". Interview With Brad Plumer, www.washingtonpost.com. September 12, 2011.

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• Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by analyzing aspects of black holes we see space and time in an exotic environment, one that has shed important, and sometimes perplexing, new light on their fundamental nature.

  Brian Greene

  Light, Ideas, Space

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• I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general.

  Grimes

  Art, Crazy, Going Crazy

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• The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

  Bear Grylls

  Mountain, Desert, Dangerous

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