Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extreme groups can eke out a victory, as Hamas did when it gained a 44-to-41 percent margin in the Palestinian election of 2006.
I know the divisions in our nation that led some to extreme votes. I respect them.
When you can’t have someone but you’re not willing to accept that, you try harder and become more extreme about it. Either you win the person back or you drive him away.
Holey Moley’ is the funnest, craziest, most extreme miniature golf series you will ever experience. It was insane. If you’ve ever played miniature golf, this is unlike everything you’ve experienced.
I wrote ‘Evil Spider’ about wanting someone that’s already taken. I guess it was based on a personal experience, but I went a lil extreme on the theme… me being a spider trying to snare someone. In real life, I was just observing!
Even when I was young, I never felt extreme feelings.
We need to tackle extreme inequality because it is morally indefensible and socially corrosive – undermining our health, affecting our well-being, and undermining peaceful societies.
Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
Spain is an example of how hard it is for a conservative party to campaign for elections if the suspicion is fueled that it wants to go into a coalition with the extreme right.
Runaway climate change would condemn millions to a life of poverty and cause us to fail to meet the Sustainable Development Goal of eradicating extreme poverty by 2030. This is not an acceptable outcome.
You can’t not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.
I thought I knew how to work out before I immersed myself into boxing. I now know what an extreme workout really is.
I think the reason I’m an actress is because I love playing kind of a more extreme people.
I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes.
Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare’s theater.
I have a lot of friends that take that position of extreme cynicism, and I just can’t let myself go to that place. It’s just too easy, and it’s just too defeatist.
Sometimes I just like the feeling of being a minority and seeing how far you can push yourself in extreme circumstances.
If one in four Dutch people saying they will vote for my party, it’s ridiculous to say we’re divisive or extreme.
The signs of climate change are visible across the nation, from the drought-stricken fields of Central California to the flooded streets of Michigan. Extreme weather is turning people’s lives upside down and costing communities millions of dollars in damaged infrastructure and added health care costs.
Whatever you do, do it to the extreme.
My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.
I realised that you can go through times of extreme happiness, but if that happiness is not coming from a deeply rooted place, you will also be going through extreme lows of sadness.
People in the U.K. don’t imagine what it is to live in extreme poverty here in Colombia or anywhere in the so-called Third World.
Local prosecutors work alongside local police officers on a regular basis and are therefore conflicted when it comes to prosecuting those same officers. They are under extreme pressure from local police unions and from rank-and-file cops.
I’m most interested in people who’ve lived life in the extreme, which is what draws me to crime fiction.
An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more.
I don’t think your personal life has anything to do with your professional life. They are separate things. Whatever is happening at home shouldn’t be carried to work. Everyone has his/her own journey. Some revel in the fact that they derive that from personal contentment, and others draw it from extreme sorrow.
I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they’re bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he’s not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he’s completely that way.
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.
We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it’s called the Labour government.
When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.
Most women’s pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men’s pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
To make sustainable progress in reducing extreme poverty will require improvements in both the quantity and quality of aid.
I like roles that are on the extreme ends of the spectrum, and there’s special appeal in exploring these slightly forgotten plays that people might think of as subjects for academic term papers instead of live theater.
During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don’t have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you get extremes in behavior.
Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I’ve spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.
I think inequality is fine, as long as it is in the common interest. The problem is when it gets so extreme, when it becomes excessive.
Well, you’ve got to be known for something. The danger of extreme versatility is that you don’t spring to mind for anything.
That’s why I do this music business thing, it’s communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.
I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.
My childhood was extreme.
Anything less than gold is a failure to me. It’s extreme pressure, but I hold myself to a high standard.
Every point in your career is a learning lesson – I learned a lot about how much work is required to grow a user base and create a new product. I also learned that things take time and extreme hard work and passion.
I’ve played all these extreme guys, but playing an everyman type has its own challenges.
To put it bluntly, there isn’t one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore’s success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex.
When I hear people express extreme optimism about the Internet, I say, we’ve had it in mature form for about ten years. Macroeconomically speaking, those are about the worst 10 years we’ve had since about the 1930s. I don’t blame the Internet for that – that would be ridiculous.
We live in a world where if you’re white, an upper-class male of extreme privilege, and able-bodied, and you’re nothing that takes you away from that norm, then you’re going to have – then the world will not assign you problems because of what you are. That is actually the world we live in.
The only way into truth is through one’s own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
When you get pregnant, you start reading pregnancy books. Everything has been pretty textbook. It’s amazing how they can say, ‘This week, this might happen,’ and it kind of does. I had typical nausea the first trimester, which was no fun. And extreme tiredness.
I don’t follow trends. I set my own and I go for the extreme.
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.
I just always play these really extreme characters – they’ve all come with parental guidance stickers on them.
There are some ballets you can do for a long time. With others, you have to know when to stop. Some are very destructive. Forsythe’s choreography pushes dancers to the extreme. That’s why it’s best to vary. That way, you break your body a little bit in different places, but not a lot in one place.
You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype.
One way to have broader access to wealth is to reduce the tax on the large group and increase the tax on the very top so concentration of wealth doesn’t get to extreme levels.
We now know that we cannot continue to put ever-increasing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. Actions have consequences. In fact, the consequences of past actions are already in the pipeline. Global temperatures are rising. Glaciers are melting. Sea levels are rising. Extreme weather events are multiplying.
The more emotional distractions you have the harder it is to accomplish your goals – especially at the extreme levels!
