Extremes Quotes - Page 9

• I regret that some on the extreme right have been so critical of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and have adamantly opposed the naming of a successor who shares her judicial philosophy and qualities. And their criticism actually reflects poorly upon them.

  Patrick Leahy

  Regret, Philosophy, Justice

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I have thought about this issue of abortion time and again. It is not an easy issue for most people. I came to believe over the years that a woman should be able to make this agonizing decision with her doctor and her family and her conscience, and that we should be very careful that we don't make that decision a crime except in the most extreme circumstances.

  Dick Durbin

  Believe, Years, Issues

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• When you go on an extreme diet, your body's self-preservation mechanism responds by burning calories as slowly as possible. Of course, that makes it much more difficult to lose weight.

  Tony Robbins

  Self, Burning, Goes On

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The things that I have loved have always been those extremes where there has been some kind of apocalypse in the person's life, and they come out unscathed or scathed.

  Scott McClanahan

  Kind, Apocalypse, Persons

  "Indie author Scott McClanahan considers art and anecdote through 5 of his favorite books". Interview with Phil McCausland, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.

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• I think it's more interesting if you go all the way with the world you have, and really look at it, and push it to an even more extreme extreme.

  Miranda July

  Thinking, Interesting, Looks

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. July 28, 2011.

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• Unfortunately, the belief that women are a minority is endemic in most cultures around the world. Obviously some take it to the extreme where violence against women is legal and supported and in other cultures it is more subversive and easy to dismiss as "progress."

  Gillian Anderson

  Other Cultures, Progress, Minorities

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There's been this attempt to block Donald Trump, in primary candidates and Democrats, that - to try to make everything he says some sort of extreme overstatement.

  Jeff Sessions

  Block, Trying, Trump

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• For an actor to go to work every day is an extreme blessing.

  Boyd Holbrook

  Blessing, Actors

  Source: gq.com

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• What I don't like is taking it to extremes and making all these intellectualizations about what basically is simple music. It's simple stream-of-consciousness stuff in my songs. What I'm trying to get across is misinterpreted.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Simple, Trying

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• We are already seeing a degree of instability in the world because Obama seems to have consciously wanted to step back. Donald Trump is going to be "Obama squared," a more extreme version of the same thing.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Degrees, World, Steps

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If the Arab world today looked like Tunisia, it would be a huge blow for the extreme ideologies. But Tunisia needs more support than it is getting, particularly from their close neighbors in Europe who have a great stake in North Africa.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Blow, Europe, Support

  "Bush Advisor Wolfowitz Says He'll Likely Vote for Clinton". Interview with Gordon Repinski, www.spiegel.de. August 26, 2016.

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• The only reason we try to have no thought is to understand the universe, but how often do you want to understand the universe in your everyday life? The majority of the time you are dealing with your everyday life, so be careful not to go to the extreme.

  Henry Chang

  Practice, Everyday, Trying

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• We always come back to the same misunderstanding. The Jews because of their spirit of revolt, their exclusiveness and the Messianic tendencies which animate them are in essence revolutionaries, but they do not realize it and believe that they are working for 'progress.'...but that which they call justice is the triumph of Jewish principles in the world of which the two extremes are plutocracy and socialism. Present day Anti-Semitism is a revolt against the world of today, the product of Judaism.

  Leon V. DePoncins

  Believe, Essence, Two

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• What worries some people about consumption (and I confess at the outset to be one of these ambivalent creatures, fat but troubled in paradise) is that the affluent, technologically advanced West seems more and more focused not on consuming to live but living to consume. The problem with consumption, and the consumer capitalism that has pushed it to feverish historical extremes, is that it has become so all-consuming.

  Rodney Clapp

  Worry, People, Historical

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• A skilled diplomat rarely generates extreme reactions.

  Madeleine Albright

  Diplomats, Reactions

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• I was on Batman with "Superheavy" or "Zero Year" where there was a lot of fun and bombast, but it was also personal. [In All-Star], I wanted to take that to its complete extreme, like the end of the Earth extreme, where it's over-the-top humorous, yet at the same time really deeply about what I think is of this particular moment in time, at least for me. The things I'm terrified of and the things I'm hopeful about. My life is the page.

  Scott Snyder

  Stars, Zero, Fun

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• What I write about is how much influence it's had in things like state legislatures and governorships and congressional races. The other thing that's even more important in the long run is that very extreme money has affected the ecosystem of ideology in the country.

  Jane Mayer

  Running, Country, Writing

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I'm very interested in how idealistic young people can get caught up in all sorts of systems of extreme belief, you know, whether it's cults or whether it's suicide bombers.

  Emma Donoghue

  Suicide, People, Bombers

  "Emma Donoghue's New Novel Follows "The Wonder" Of Starvation". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 17, 2016.

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• Only when the kulak refused to deliver grain to the State did [Joseph] Stalin, under the pressure of the Left Opposition, accomplish a sharp turn. Being the empiricist that he is, he moved, to the opposite extreme, and set as a task for two or three years the collectivization of all the peasantry, the liquidation of the kulaks as a class, and the compression of the Five Year Plan into four years.

  Leon Trotsky

  Years, Opposites, Class

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• India is a functioning democracy despite its extreme poverty, India has stayed the course.

  Manmohan Singh

  Democracy, India, Poverty

  "Dr Manmohan Singh's interview with Charlie Rose". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.rediff.com. March 1, 2006.

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• The service of India means the service of those teeming millions steeped in poverty, ignorance and disease. To see that in my lifetime we can soften these harsh edges of extreme poverty and unleash a new economic and social revolution which will bring out the latent creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of our people, I think that's what I feel, I think.

  Manmohan Singh

  Mean, Creativity, Ignorance

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• Human courtship has some wild extremes. At one end of the spectrum, there is harassment, pestering, blackmail, and an abuse of institutional power, which its targets rightly fear and loathe. At the other end is love, which as Nietzsche said, is beyond good and evil and always deserves our respect and compassion even when it is doomed or destructive. In the wide middle of the spectrum are all the ambiguous and tragi-comic goings-on of our species.

  Catherine Wilson

  Compassion, Evil, Abuse

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Political gerrymandering makes the incentive for most members of Congress to play to the extremes of their base rather than to the center.

  Barack Obama

  Play, Political, Gerrymandering

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• The kind of plan that Donald [Tramp] has put forth would be trickle-down economics all over again. In fact, it would be the most extreme version, the biggest tax cuts for the top percent of the people in this country than we've ever had.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Cutting, People

  Source: time.com

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• I've always had a very extreme personality, which gets me into major trouble, I'm always all or nothing, and I don't know the world "balance." I'm desperately trying to learn it because I think as you get older it becomes very important.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Thinking, Personality, Balance

  "New Again: Michelle Pfeiffer". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, Peter Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

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