Extremes Quotes - Page 33

• Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas.

  Steven Rattner

  Tough Economic Times, Ideas, Begets

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• First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.

  Jean Stapleton

  Character, Lasts, Flow

  "Jean Stapleton: On Theatre". Interview with Robert Faires, www.austinchronicle.com. November 10, 2000.

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• I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you. More mythical reference points actually help, and you realize that's what myths are for. It's for human beings to process their experience in extremis.

  Michael Sheen

  Helping, Failing, Process

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

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• At times of extreme intensity, the kundalini can become active. Suddenly a 70-year old lady, who can't lift a bag of prunes, will lift an automobile a few inches because her grandchild got stuck under it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Grandchildren, Years

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• Nearly one billion women and men, a third of the world's workforce, are either unemployed or unable to earn enough to keep themselves out of extreme poverty. There are 100 million new entrants into the labour market each year. Up to 90 percent in some regions are in the informal economy. 180 million kids are engaged in the worst forms of child labour. Put it all together and it is not only morally unacceptable, but politically dangerous

  Juan Somavia

  Children, Kids, Men

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• At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Feet, Keys, Ladders

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• It is more raw and unfettered and I'm more likely going into something you could call extreme cartooning. There's a lot of that in the course of 'Holy Terror.' There are interludes where there are pictures - cartoon pictures - of modern figures and they are all wordless. It's up to readers to put the words in.

  Frank Miller

  Cartoon, Modern, Holy

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• It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

  Vince Vaughn

  Drama, Comedy, Great Comedy

  "HitFix Q&A: Vince Vaughn, Kevin James take a new tack in ‘The Dilemma’". Interview with Katie Hasty, November 23, 2010.

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• Many think it not only inevitable but entirely proper that liberty give way to security in times of national crisis--that, at the extremes of military exigency, inter arma silent leges. Whatever the general merits of the view that war silences law or modulates its voice, that view has no place in the interpretation and application of a Constitution designed precisely to confront war and, in a manner that accords with democratic principles, to accommodate it.

  Antonin Scalia

  Military, War, Thinking

  Antonin Scalia (2016). “Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents”, p.131, Regnery Publishing

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• It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

  John Updike

  Ambiguity, Clash

  John Updike, James Plath (1994). “Conversations with John Updike”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If 'extreme' means that I am unwilling to go to Washington, D.C., and do what President Obama tells me, then so be it. But I am certainly not going to Washington, D.C. to represent the interests of D.C. I'm going there to represent Colorado values.

  Ken Buck

  Mean, President, Colorado

  "Interview with Colorado Senate Candidate Ken Buck". Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 11, 2010.

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• It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is conducted behind an extreme wall of secrecy. The very few leaks that we’ve had over the last decade are basically the only ways that we’ve had to learn what our government is doing.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Wall, Government, United States

  "'A Massive Surveillance State': Glenn Greenwald Exposes Covert NSA Program Collecting Calls, Emails". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. June 07, 2013.

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• And if there is one thing we can be sure of, it’s that extreme weather events like Superstorm Sandy, Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, and the British floods—disasters that, combined, pummeled coastlines beyond recognition, ravaged millions of homes, and killed many thousands—are going to keep coming.

  Naomi Klein

  Home, Weather, Events

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• Products a start-up builds are really experiments…Learning about how to build a sustainable business is the outcome of those experiments [which follow] a three-step process: Build, measure, learn.” “[A startup is] … an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

  Eric Ries

  Organization, Creating, Three

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• I'm really interested in the repetition, the discipline, and what happens to me psychologically when I put my body to that extreme place.

  Janine Antoni

  Discipline, Body, Repetition

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• Most of us have become Ecozombies, desensitized, environmental deadheads. On average, society conditions us to spend over 95% of our time and 99.9% of our thinking disconnected from nature. Nature's extreme absence in our lives leaves us abandoned and wanting. We feel we never have enough. We greedily, destructively, consume and, can't stop. Nature's loss in our psyche produces a hurt, hungering, void within us that bullies us into our dilemmas.

  Michael J Cohen

  Hurt, Loss, Emotional

  Michael J. Cohen (2003). “The Web of Life Imperative: Regenerative Ecopsychology Techniques That Help People Think in Balance with Natural Systems”, p.83, Trafford Publishing

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• It's often been said, "Violence never solved anything." The simple truth is that when you are slammed up against the wall and the knife is at your throat, when a circle of teenagers is kicking you as you curl into a ball on the sidewalk, or when the man walks into your office building or school with a pair of guns and starts shooting, only violence, or the reasonable threat of violence, is going to save your life. In the extreme moment, only force can stop force.

  Rory Miller

  Wall, Teenager, School

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• Astride a horse I am not, nor camel-like carry a load,
  Subjects I have none, nor follow any sultan's code;
  I worry not for what exists, nor fret for what is lost,
  I breathe with extreme ease, and live at very little cost.

  Saadi

  Wisdom, Horse, Islamic

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• An all encompassing uncertainty on the part of any person is either a sign of utter stupidity or extreme intelligence. Only the not so dumb, or the not so smart, are ever certain about anything.

  Derek R. Audette

  Life, Smart, Stupidity

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• As you get more global warming, you should see an increase in the extremes of the hydrological cycle - droughts and floods and heavy precipitation.

  James Hansen

  Global Warming, Increase, Should

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• Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Self, Competition

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.62, Humanix Books

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• Extreme picky eaters may have what's called Selective Eating Disorder. People with this experience physical and psychological discomfort over certain tastes, smells, textures.

  Emily Yoffe

  Smell, People, Eating Disorder

  "Mother Loathe". Live chat, www.slate.com. May 27, 2015.

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• Being in a war situation is probably the most extreme situation for a human being to be in.

  Boaz Lavie

  War, Situation, Humans

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think in that context, when a generation of kids is that ignorant of their recent history, it does a good job of showing what the Pistols were standing for. It's current and it's in the air, partly because I think nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what The Sex Pistols were able to do in their time, in the '70s. I think the reason to [make the film] is that their ideas are still alive: the defense of the right to be an individual, and questioning everything you read, and questioning all the information that's bombarded increasingly at you.

  Julien Temple

  Jobs, Sex, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890 It is our great relief that God is not extreme to mark what is done amiss, that he looks at the motives, and accepts and blesses in spite of incidental errors.

  John Henry Newman

  Teacher, Order, Errors

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