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• You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre can do.

  Stephen Daldry

  Theatre, Youth, Excitement

  "Nothing is the hardest thing to do". Interview with Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2003.

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• There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Forbidden Love, Kind, Forbidden

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• In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men.
  [Lat., Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum est habitu;
  Nimia omnia nimium exhibent negotium hominibus ex se.]

  Plautus

  Men, Trouble, Moderation

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• Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Talking, Greed, Idiot

  "He's all the rage" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2002.

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• As long as you have markets, you'll have excesses. People went crazy with tulip bulbs. They went crazy with the South Sea Bubble, they went crazy internet stocks, they went crazy with the uranium stocks back when I was first getting started. I mean, you know, you're not going to change the human animal. And the human animal really doesn't get a lot smarter.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Crazy, Mean, Animal

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime - Charlie Rose Interview". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• Only a very small proportion of us take those excesses with us into later life. In the age before everyone had a camera, it was worthwhile, in my opinion, to record those excesses. Sometimes, many times actually, the young people I photographed were only dressed that way for one night; that one night that they got snapped by me.

  Derek Ridgers

  Night, People, Age

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I try to beat back the producers and engineers so they - there's not an excess of stuff used to squeeze my voice to make it artificial. There's a person in there, and people will listen; if they hear another person speak to them, they'll listen because it's lonely out here.

  Iggy Pop

  Lonely, Voice, People

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• Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.

  John Gabriel Stedman

  Marriage, Country, Husband

  John Gabriel Stedman (1796). “Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition, Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam: In Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; from the Year 1772, to 1777: Elucidating the History of that Country, and Describing Its Productions ... with an Account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea. By Captn. J. G. Stedman ... ...”, p.28

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• The key to a good life: excess in moderation. They'll tell you moderation is the key to life, but that's bullshit.

  Doug Stanhope

  Good Life, Keys, Bullshit

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• Excess in moderation: don't drink a few beers every day after work, wait 'till the end of the month and drink all the beers at once.

  Doug Stanhope

  Beer, Waiting, Months

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• The future of our children is a trust we have been given. To conserve and grow, not to squander wastefully on needless excesses. The earth is a trust, to protect and to honor. Our home, our livelihood, our future rests in the quality of our stewardship. Let us become better stewards.

  Helen Caldicott

  Children, Home, Honor

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• I drink to excess, I gamble to excess, but everyone knows it, so it's not a big deal.

  Oscar Goodman

  Drink, Bigs, Deals

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• There are two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there is a limit to reason. Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it. It is merely feeble if it does not go as far as to realise that.

  Blaise Pascal

  Two, Numbers, Achievement

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• Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.

  Arthur Koestler

  Trouble, Devotion, Capacity

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• Anything in excess is a poison.

  Theodore Levitt

  Poison

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• I think you get people taking things to excess in all fields, doctors, lawyers - -it happens to all kinds of people.

  John Frusciante

  Thinking, Doctors, People

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• To me, the counterculture was always what I grew up with the hippies in the late '60s. But, however you define it, it's really the excesses of youth and it's something that everyone goes through to some extent. Or if they don't, they should do.

  Derek Ridgers

  Hippie, Youth, Grew Up

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think I was also afraid of the novel. I write line by line, proceeding at snail's pace, rewriting as I go and paring the excess away. This is against all the best advice for writing long form prose, and I have tried over the years to break myself of the habit, but I can't bear to leave anything ungainly on the page and half the fun for me is that tinkering. So the length of a novel was a daunting prospect.

  Debra Dean

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the sombre renown of waning statesmen or chinless kings.

  Don DeLillo

  Kings, Mean, Neon

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Great Jones Street”, p.4, Pan Macmillan

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• In an excess of examples, the walk to globalization has additionally implied the minimization of women and young ladies. What's more that must change.

  Hillary Clinton

  Example, Globalization, Young

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• According to Kim Jong-Il's biography, they say he has been constantly accused of dishonesty, drunkenness and sexual excess. So if he lived here, he could be in Congress.

  Jay Leno

  Biographies, Kim, Dishonesty

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• In security analysis the prime stress is laid upon protection against untoward events. We obtain this protection by insisting upon margins of safety, or values well in excess of the price paid.

  Benjamin Graham

  Stress, Safety, Events

  Benjamin Graham, David Le Fevre Dodd (1934). “Security Analysis: The Classic 1934 Edition”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• I've heard Braggadocio about excess baggage charges, multiple unused hotel rooms, and rental cars held unused for long periods of time, which makes me lose respect for certain photographers. Sometimes it's worth it to spend money on a good idea, but wasting money makes me ill.

  Peter Menzel

  Ideas, Excess Baggage, Long

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• The true secret of natural goodness lies in the recognition of the contending rights of the Pairs of Opposites; there is no such antimony as between Good and Evil, but only balance between two extremes, each of which is evil when carried to excess, both of which give rise to evil if insufficient for equipoise.

  Dion Fortune

  Lying, Rights, Opposites

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• Olympism is not a system - it is a state of mind. This state of mind has emerged from a double cult: that of effort and that of Eurythmy - a taste of excess and a taste of measure combined.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Effort, Mind, Taste

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