Drastic Quotes

• I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there.

  Charlie Rich

  Country, Appreciate, Records

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• Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

  William S. Burroughs

  Change, Believe, Despair

  William S. Burroughs (1988). “The Western Lands”, Penguin Group USA

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• Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species.

  Ernst Mayr

  Reconstruction, Evidence, Acceleration

  Ernst Mayr (1988). “Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist”, Harvard University Press

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• I'm not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love.

  Michelle Obama

  Asking, Recipes, Way

  Remarks by the First Lady in Address to the National Restaurant Association Meeting, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 13, 2010.

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• It's important to still look like yourself on your wedding day, so I didn't do anything drastic.

  Lily Aldridge

  Wedding, Important, Looks

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

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• We black men have a hard enough time in our own struggle for justice, and already have enough enemies as it is, to make the drastic mistake of attacking each other and adding more weight to an already unbearable load.

  Malcolm X

  Mistake, Struggle, Men

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• Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

  Carol Burnett

  Inspirational, Change, Attitude

  "Aaron Carter Is 'Excited' For the Future After Gaining 40 Pounds at Health and Wellness Facility" by Jennifer Drysdale‍, www.etonline.com. December 1, 2017.

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  Change your thoughts and you change your world.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Norman Vincent Peale (1970). “Norman Vincent Peale's treasury of courage and confidence”

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• The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers

  Barbara Boxer

  Change, Country, White

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• I guess there's a vulnerability in seeing a female character trying to get out of something really drastic.

  Elisha Cuthbert

  Character, Trying, Female

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• I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself.

  Elizabeth Berkley

  Choices, Losing, Losing Myself

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• When youre on a long running series, you reach a very rarefied, high oxygen area and after a while to keep a show on the air they have to make some very drastic changes.

  Joan Van Ark

  Running, Air, Oxygen

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the many years it takes to transform a country's standard of living.

  Peter Blair Henry

  Country, Years, Economic

  Peter Blair Henry (2013). “Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.

  Eric Hoffer

  Life, Motivational, Change

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• As a teacher you can see the difference in kids who have parents who were involved. That difference, by the time these kids get to the third grade, is drastic.

  Jenna Bush

  Teacher, Kids, Differences

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• Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.

  Keith Jarrett

  Musician, Chance, Minutes

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• Possibly drastic and Spartan methods may be forced upon American society if it continues complacently to encourage the chance and chaotic breeding that has resulted from our stupid, cruel sentimentalism.

  Margaret Sanger

  Stupid, May, Chance

  Margaret Sanger, H. G. Wells (2016). “The Pivot of Civilization”, p.21, Read Books Ltd

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• I have a very real political awareness that at least on a transient basis the more drastic action taken by the president, the more popular it is.

  Jimmy Carter

  Real, Taken, Political

  "Jimmy Carter Talking About Himself... His Record... His Campaign". Interview with Meg Greenfield, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 1980.

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• Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self.

  Robin Morgan

  Life, Self, Generous

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• A drastic reduction in the deficit...will take place in the fiscal year '82.

  Ronald Reagan

  Years, Economy, Reduction

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• Japan lives with drastic segregation between the sublime, the ugly, and the utterly without qualities. Dominance of the last 2 categories makes mere presence of the first stunning: when beauty 'happens', it is absolutely surprising.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Japan, Sublime, Quality

  "S,M,L,XL". Book by Bruce Mau and Rem Koolhaas, 1995.

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• We are not, of course, optimistic about our chances of success. Some form of ecocatastrophe, if not thermonuclear war, seems almost certain to overtake us before the end of the century. (The inability to forecast exactly which one - whether plague, famine, the poisoning of the oceans, drastic climatic change, or some disaster entirely unforeseen - is hardly grounds for complacency.)

  John Holdren

  War, Ocean, Optimistic

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• I've been in contact with Marshal Badoglio. We agree that Italy must be saved from the abyss toward which Fascism is driving her. If we depose Mussolini, however, the new government should do nothing drastic to upset Hitler until we can secretly negotiate an armistice with the Allies.

  Ugo Cavallero

  Government, Upset, Allies

  "Improbable Heroes". Book by Carl L. Steinhous, p. 104, 2005.

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• I start from the supposition that the world is topsyturvy, that things are all wrong, that the wrong people are in jail and the wrong people are out of jail, that the wrong people are in power and the wrong people are out of power, that the wealth is distributed in this country and the world in such a way as not simply to require small reform but to require a drastic reallocation of wealth. I start from the supposition that we don't have to say too much about this because all we have to do is think about the state of the world today and realize that things are all upside down.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Thinking, Jail

  Howard Zinn (1997). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.404, Seven Stories Press

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• A drastic reduction in weapons competition following a general release from the commitment to the Cold War would be sharply in conflict with the needs of the industrial system.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  War, Commitment, Competition

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1971). “The new industrial state”, Houghton Mifflin

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