Extremes Quotes

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  'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

  Alice Walker

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Thank You

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• For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

  Richard Branson

  Jobs, Mean, Responsibility

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

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• I'm one of these people that likes adrenaline and new things, like extreme sports. It makes me feel alive.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Sports, People, Alive

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• I think extreme sports are really good for relieving stress.

  Dave Chappelle

  Sports, Stress, Thinking

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• Guys have a level of insecurity and vulnerability that's exponentially bigger than you think. With the primal urge to be alpha comes extreme heartbreak. The harder we fight, the harder we fall.

  John Krasinski

  Fall, Fighting, Thinking

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• As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner's medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it's three-Michelin's stars, there's no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Soccer, Stars, Player

  "Star Chef on Passion, Pressure and Perfection" by Sarah Rosenberg and Katie Escherich, abcnews.go.com. June 19, 2008.

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• Our planet is warming due to pollution from human activities. And a warming climate increases the likelihood of extreme weather.

  Gloria Reuben

  Weather, Climate, Pollution

  "A Night in New York" by Gloria Reuben, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2010.

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• I find fame to be quite unnatural. Humans are not built for extreme adoration.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Fame, Adoration, Humans

  "25 Things You Don’t Know About Me: Jada Pinkett Smith". www.usmagazine.com. August 4, 2010.

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• We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Mean, Simple

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.154, Harvard University Press

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• For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility.

  Richard Branson

  Business, Mean, Responsibility

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

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• One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fear, Mean, Pride

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.

  Amy Waldman

  Religious, Emotional, Community

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• The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead.

  John Boorman

  Passion, Doe, Unbearable

  "Projections: A Forum for Film Makers, Volume 1". Book edited by John Boorman and Walter Donohue, 1992.

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• Women are extreme; they are better than men, or worse.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Running, Men

  "Of Women". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• At the end of the day, both men and women who become CEOs have showed tenacity and hard work to succeed in their careers. It takes not just skills but also extreme dedication and commitment. And regardless of gender, CEOs are measured by the same criteria - the growth and success of the business.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Hard Work, Commitment, Dedication

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• Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense.

  Christopher McDougall

  Spring, Common Sense, Psychology

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• My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.

  David Guetta

  Eight, Streets Of Paris, Fake

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• An enormously vast field lies between "God exists" and "there is no God." The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty. A Russian knows one or the other of these two extremes, but is not interested in the middle ground. He usually knows nothing, or very little.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wise, Lying, Men

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• Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Loneliness, Self

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• There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

  Bell Hooks

  Children, Addiction, Abuse

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• Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Views, Data, Turns

  Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Works”, p.173

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• Perfect reason avoids all extremes.

  Moliere

  Perfect, Reason

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• That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Profound, Mind, Observation

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.184

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• And feel by turns the bitter change
  Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.

  John Milton

  Bogs, Bitter, Fierce

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 598

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• Let wealth come in by comely thrift,
  And not by any sordid shift;
  'T is haste
  Makes waste;
  Extremes have still their fault.
  Who gripes too hard the dry and slipp'ry sand,
  Holds none at all, or little, in his hand.

  Robert Herrick

  Hands, Haste Makes Waste, Dry

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”, p.206

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