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• As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Average, Play, Actors

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• I'm an extremist, I have to deal with my own extreme personality, and I walk the fine line of wanting to die and wanting to be the ruler of it all.

  Davey Havok

  Personality, Lines, Wanting To Die

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• Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Humane Way, Rights, People

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• People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.

  Shawn Johnson

  Gymnastics, People, Olympics

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• Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy as it was before I made a study of these issues.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Thinking, Issues, Age

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.475, Macmillan

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• While I will always have the utmost respect for the superhuman out-of-bounds freestyle and extreme stunts that seem to continually progress beyond our imaginable limits, my highest appreciation goes out to the simple rider who's out there just for the experience.

  Craig Kelly

  Appreciation, Simple, Progress

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• I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Negative, Different, Two Extremes

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• When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I'm terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice.

  Taylor Lautner

  Crazy, Nice, Swimming

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• I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that.

  Annie Lennox

  Hate, Shopping, Crowds

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• Most liberals I know do not consider themselves to even be liberals. They just think of you and me as conservatives, and that means, therefore, we're odd and we're kooks and maybe extreme and maybe mean.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Thinking, Odd

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• What was called extreme 20 years ago definitely isn't extreme anymore. When I started, I remember people saying, 'Oh my God, I can't walk in that!' It was like, three inches - they look like kitten heels now.

  Christian Louboutin

  Years, People, Three

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• 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.

  John Lydon

  Wings, Wife, Doe

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• Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.

  John Lydon

  Example, Fascists, Pops

  "Johnny Rotten Praises Battling Bands, Trashes Internet Liars". Interview With Eliot Van Buskirk, www.wired.com. September 3, 2007.

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• Every time you see a black romance it's over-the-top. There always has to be extreme hostility between the sexes. He has to cheat. She has to show him how independently strong she is, not just as a woman but as a black woman.

  Bernie Mac

  Strong, Sex, Romance

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

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• Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in the context of very strict time. So, everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Swings, Feelings, Balance

  "Wynton Marsalis Pays Homage to Jazz’s Past by Investing in Its Future". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. June 1, 2011.

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• I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction.

  James McGreevey

  Self, Two, Fiction

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• Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling.

  Moby

  Growing Up, Diversity, House

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• There's a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pockets of resistance on the extreme margins, like the techno-savvy protest movements, small press, the creator-owned comics, that seem to be getting some signs of hope for the future.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Political, Pockets

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• My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of 'raises left eyebrow' and 'raises right eyebrow.'

  Roger Moore

  Eyebrows, Two, Acting

  "The Very Best of Roger Moore: The Man Behind the Bond". Book by David Graham, August 22, 2014.

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• 'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Children, Boys, Parent

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• Anybody who can afford a box of business cards can afford a Web site. Any company with an 800 number can move its services to the Web for peanuts by comparison. The extreme case of corporate promotion is to strip away all other aspects of your business and sell goods or services via the Net alone, as amazon.com has done with books.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Book, Moving, Numbers

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• Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.

  Bill Nighy

  Adorable, Lovely, Emma

  "Bill Nighy Praises 'Harry Potter' Stars". Premiere Magazine Interview, www.digitalspy.com. June 29, 2010.

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• This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large part of you is entirely subject to its demands.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Grief, Pieces, Demand

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• It's not the extremes and the treats that are the problem. It's the everyday.

  Jamie Oliver

  Everyday, Problem, Treats

  "Jamie Oliver Takes Food Revolution to West Virginia" by Vicki Mabrey and Sarah Rosenberg, abcnews.go.com. March 19, 2010.

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• Even if you were to fall into extreme financial hardship and file for bankruptcy, you need to understand that your student loan debt will not be discharged in bankruptcy. It is the Velcro of all debts.

  Suze Orman

  Fall, Financial Hardship, Velcro

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