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Extreme Quotes

"I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown."

Elizabeth I, English Royalty

Extreme, Reputation, Unworthy

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"I'm a bit of a worrier, to an extreme. I'll crack a joke, then worry if I've offended someone - even when they're laughing. I have a guilt complex, always worrying."

Sophia Bush, American Actress

Extreme, Guilt, Worry

"In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate."

Gary Cherone, American Musician

Extreme, Fate, Man, Measure

"The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies."

Edward Bond, English Playwright

"I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice."

Clint Eastwood, American Actor

Extreme, Fact, Man, Prejudice

"The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice."

Clint Eastwood, American Actor

Extreme, Man, Prejudice

"Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater."

Michael Tippett, English Composer

Extreme, Shakespeare, Theater

"Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme."

John Cusack, American Actor

"I'm not really allowed to talk about the Dead though. I think when we are at our best, we definitely do things that the Dead or no other band could do. We explore things and take things to the extreme."

Mike Gordon, American Musician

"Yes, our tree has an interesting shape. The center branches reflect the shape of the zero curve. When extreme parts of the tree are reached the branching pattern changes to accommodate the mean reversion."

John Hull, American Economist

"I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance."

Roscoe Mitchell, American Composer

"Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease."

Roger Moore, English Actor

Extreme, Poverty, Violence

"Hockey is the original extreme sport."

Tom Ward, Welsh Actor

"I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready."

Mary Garden, Scottish Soprano

"There's always going to be that pressure when you're in front of the camera. When you're famous it's just an extreme version of reality and there's a pressure to look a certain way."

Geri Halliwell, British Musician

Extreme, Famous, Pressure, Reality

"One important measurement issue concerns the fat tails problem that I mentioned earlier. VAR is concerned with extreme outcomes. If the tails of the probability distributions we are using are too thin, our VAR measures are likely to be too low."

John Hull, American Economist

"The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses."

Stanley Tucci, American Actor

Extreme, May, Project, Reality

"I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all."

Bonnie Raitt, American Musician

"I just had this notion that I wanted to do the most extreme thing I could and I also very consciously wanted to do something that was very different from Mars because we were all very close."

Arto Lindsay, American Musician

"Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

Extreme, Extremes, Will

"All of my activities are so pedestrian. The extreme sport I play is ping pong. And we play it hard. If any of you suckers want to step up to the table, be ready."

Seth Green, American Actor

Extreme, Play, Want

"Extremes are dangerous."

Jonathan Mayhew, American Clergyman

Extreme, Extremes

"I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another."

Robert Smith, English Musician

"Oh, I realize it's a penny here and a penny there, but look at me: I've worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty."

Arthur Sheekman, American Screenwriter

Extreme, Nothing, Poverty, State

"So when I'm working out I do things extreme."

Taylor Dayne, American Musician

"My favorite Extreme records were the last two. I can't listen to the first one."

Gary Cherone, American Musician

Extreme, Favorite, First

"Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety."

Gabriele Nanni, Italian Theologian

"That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty."

Jasmine Guy, American Actress

Extreme, Poverty

"Justice in the extreme is often unjust."

Jean Racine, French Dramatist

Extreme, Justice

"I am not a tree-hugger and I don't think mine is an extreme point of view."

Kevin Richardson, American Musician

"Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases."

Hippocrates, Greek Scientist

Extreme, Remedies

"I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty."

Groucho Marx, American Comedian

Extreme, Nothing, Poverty, State

"Extreme nationalism and Bolshevism have broken up the old world, a new world is in the making. It is literally true that old things are passing away; all things may become new, granted we have wise, unselfish, and determined guides."

John Raleigh Mott, American Celebrity

Extreme, May, Nationalism, Old

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