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Dehumanizing sounds so extreme, but when you're fighting for a football at the bottom of the pile, it is kind of dehumanizing.
I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.
No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth.
I always think you have to show a degree of humanity and sensitivity when you're dealing with people in extreme circumstances.
Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.
Terrorism and the refugee crisis have changed the political mood in the West and brought the extreme right to prominence there.
Every state in this nation has been made better by those who have chosen to move here to escape persecution or extreme poverty.
What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its being a good or bad.
The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.
I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.
When you do something a little bit extreme or weird, it helps make it more interesting and more amenable to being written about.
Our planet is warming due to pollution from human activities. And a warming climate increases the likelihood of extreme weather.
I know and understand the result of extreme violence in my own life, in my friends' lives, and so I know what violence really is.
One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!
I grew up with a special-needs brother, and the separation from other kids is so extreme. We've got to break down those barriers.
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.
Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.
Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.
People who truly represent an extreme on either side have a very difficult time getting bipartisan support for what they're doing.
Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying the next.
When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.
Too often, the air conditioners we use to cool down also contribute to climate change - the very force that's fueling extreme heat.
I know a moderate, more centered candidate like myself doesn't get as much attention as people who tend to say more extreme things.
Parents should be allowed to choose which cable or satellite channels - sources of the most extreme content - come into their homes.
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
I'm Hackney born and bred and find it hard to call anywhere else home despite the extreme ongoing gentrification which gets me down.
I think social media has a lot of negative impact and negative effects. These are fairly extreme and horrifying and really gruesome.
The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
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 was an extreme tomboy. I did competitive gymnastics for over 10 years. I cut my hair like Winona Ryder, with that little pixie cut.
Race and gender quotas, whether in publishing, the media, or scientific research labs, are becoming more extreme and more ineluctable.
I wanted to go to the extreme in the sense of places that were not explored and meeting people, tribes. I wanted to have an adventure.
I've been producing documentaries on global warming for 20 years and have seen the early warnings of extreme weather events come true.
I was extreme... from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all, and all at the same time.
There's always somebody doing something more extreme than you are. It used to be that if you ran the marathon, that was the end of it.
The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear.
An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more.
Getting on a plane and discovering that your seat belt won't fit around you was a moment of extreme horror. It was very hard to ignore.
If you have an adversary, an opponent with an opposing point of view, give that person a platform, regardless of how extreme it may be.
Our soldiers in Siachen are performing their duty with great courage and fortitude, even in extreme conditions and treacherous terrain.
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.
I'm an extreme do'er - I'm not an intellect; I'm not a bookworm. I do, do, do, and nine times out of ten, I fail, but I learn from that.
Anything that I love, I love to the extreme. I'm obsessive. If it's 'Star Wars,' if it's 'Transformers,' if it's the Flyers, I geek out.
Will we make all poverty history? No. But can we solve some of these extreme and egregious forms of poverty? I think yes, and we should.
I'm an indie artist with major distribution, so one foot in the extreme major music business and one foot in the abyss of indie artists.
Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.
The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme.
There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.
The Russians are extreme people: they are generous but crazy at the same time. They always have something to say, and I really like that.
I would spend months and months looking for a sound. I had to do that, or I wouldn't feel the extreme emotions I was feeling in my heart.