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The French don't think everyone should have the same bank balance, but they're offended by extremes of inequality.
Silicon Valley is like Wall Street in that it will fill and pursue market opportunities to their logical extremes.
Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.
I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional.
Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]
A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.
All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive.
Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.
We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves.
My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of 'raises left eyebrow' and 'raises right eyebrow.'
I'd love to do a movie like 'The Machinist.' It's an extreme movie but it takes you to a place that is quite impressive.
I am interested in power and in the idea of one country exerting power over another. The Soviets took this to an extreme.
Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.
It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.
We live in a time of extremes. People think that, on a scale of 1-10, if they're not at a 10 for happy, they're not happy.
When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as far as you need to.
We tend to paint the past only in extremes, as having been either categorically better than the present or irredeemably bad.
Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.
One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.
I was always very into heavy metal, and heavy metal is full of emotion and extremes, and I think that's the same in dance music.
One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!
I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.
When you're not in studios, you don't have any luxuries; you can't control the elements, so you have to put up with those extremes.
We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind.
If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
Dont avoid extremes, and dont choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.
Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.
I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.
When I'm traveling, I like extremes. It's nice for me to go to Canada in the mountains where it's snowing or to Cambodia where it's stifling.
I have seen both extremes; when there was no work, I was frustrated and now that I'm overworked, I feel the same. I'm looking for a balance now.
I've always been drawn to the extremes of human behavior, and crime fiction is a great way to explore the lives and stories of fascinating people.
Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself.
I have realised I need to tone down and be easy at times. It is good to be competitive and have a fighting spirit, but one should not go to extremes.
During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don't have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you get extremes in behavior.
'Bernie versus Bernie,' for me, is these two extremes of capitalism. It's Bernie Sanders, the ultimate socialist, and Bernie Madoff, the ultimate capitalist.
As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a hazard such as a crevasse.
We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them.
I really swung between the extremes. From the danger of being ostracised by the society, I almost overnight found myself as virtually the darling of the millions.
The things that I have loved have always been those extremes where there has been some kind of apocalypse in the person's life, and they come out unscathed or scathed.
I think Christine and Chad are on the opposite extremes of the spectrum. Christine is a model victim, and Chad is a model perpetrator, and Howard is closer to the middle.
The Asian woman in Hollywood movies has usually been one of two extremes - totally submissive or totally ruthless. In either case her primary function has been decorative.
Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
A mind that is interested in changing...is interested precisely in the things that are at extremes. I'm certainly like that. Unless we go to extremes, we won't get anywhere.
Some bitcoin users see the hard fork as in some ways violating their most fundamental values. I personally think these fundamental values, pushed to such extremes, are silly.
I fell in love at 14 and I remember that mad, tense feeling and all the mad things you do for the person - all those extremes and all the stuff you don't mind putting up with.
In my experience, it's common that deep truths exist at both extremes of a dialectic, and the wisest stance on an issue will incorporate 'both of the opposites within itself.'
People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.