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I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself. -- Elizabeth Berkley
I guess there's a vulnerability in seeing a female character trying to get out of something really drastic. -- Elisha Cuthbert
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
Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes. -- Jamais Cascio
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
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
Drastic action can be costly, but it can be less expensive than continuing inaction. -- Richard Neustadt
I make myself pizza if it comes down to that drastic measurement. -- Corey Haim
I don't do cold. My reaction to cold is drastic. I'm a southern boy. -- Morgan Freeman
In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. -- Eric Hoffer
Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic. -- John Whiting
Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. -- John Updike
It's important to still look like yourself on your wedding day, so I didn't do anything drastic. -- Lily Aldridge
All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population. -- Ernst Mayr
I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there. -- Charlie Rich
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
Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services. -- Bill Delahunt
The only conduct that merits the drastic remedy of impeachment is that which subverts our system of government or renders the president unfit or unable to govern. -- Charles Ruff
If politicians stopped meddling with things they don't understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates. -- Thomas Sowell
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
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
I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute - unless something drastic occurs. -- Keith Jarrett
I think, you know, when you're a teenager, sometimes your emotions are a little bit more drastic than maybe when you're in your 20s. You sort of level out a little bit. -- Brendon Urie
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
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
When you're 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
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
One should treat one's fate as one does one's health; enjoy it when it is good, be patient with it when it is poor, and never attempt any drastic cure save as an ultimate resort. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It is my opinion that the Endangered Species Act is 99 percent about protecting critical habitat. -- Jim Saxton
I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol lowering drugs for the rest of their lives. -- Dean Ornish
I think that if people realize that with an mp3, you're only getting five percent of the sound that's there. But when you hear the entire thing... I think it would save the music business. It's such a drastic change. -- Tom Petty
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
Sometimes an opponent stops breathing, and you realise something drastic has happened and they are trying not to let on. Or they go quiet, or they get fidgety. After a while you pick these things up and become more alert to them. -- Viswanathan Anand
I am quite short, but that never comes across when I'm onstage in front of people. When I get offstage and greet an audience afterwards, their first reaction is to comment on my height because it seems like a very drastic difference. -- Kaki King
Peoples have come to experience that political structures and divisions of power are not immutable. Nor will they perceive the distribution of wealth and resources between nations to be unalterably ordained by heaven and incapable of drastic rearrangement by the less than gentle manipulation of man. -- Bob Hawke
Use whatever challenge comes into your life as a kind of fuel for the flame of consciousness. That is done through surrender to what is. Some people may need more of that than others. If you choose presence in your daily life you may not need the drastic challenges. -- Eckhart Tolle
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. You cannot subjugate a nation forcibly unless you wipe out every man, woman, and child. Unless you wish to use such drastic measures, you must find a way of settling your disputes without resort to arms. -- Albert Einstein
I would say of characters I've created, the one I've felt the most connected to emotionally was Adam Austin from 'The Prophet.' I think it was the connection to the idea that one decision you make innocently enough can have very serious, drastic consequences for someone else's life. -- Michael Koryta
To be honest I think my read is people are now taking this seriously. They realise that the game is up and the planet and all of us - I mean all of us - have to really start doing something much more drastic in order to try and contain the impacts. -- Chris Barrie
I'm truly blessed with great genes. I've never done anything drastic in my life, and I can proudly say I haven't tried any of those crazy fad diets, either. I believe in eating right and living healthy. Plus, I love going to the gym, and I enjoy yoga because it streamlines your body. -- Malaika Arora Khan
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
I knew absolutely nothing about recording. I had this four-track recorder, and I'd plug my electric guitar right into it, which sounded real bad. I moved any fader that made a drastic change in sound. I thought that was cool - that it was communicating something. I didn't have the skills to do anything subtle. It was just like screaming. -- Bill Callahan
Motherhood has most definitely changed me and my life. It's so crazy how drastic even the small details change - in such an amazing way. Even silly things, like the fact that all of my pictures on my cell phone used to be of me at photo shoots - conceited, I know! - but now every single picture on my phone is of Mason. -- Kourtney Kardashian
Good drama must be drastic. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures. -- Veronica Roth
Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage. -- George Carlin
Nothing matters for a drastic change in Ukraine more than political transformations. -- Vladimir Putin
Transsexualism is, basically, just another, more drastic twist on the male menopause -- Julie Burchill
A drastic reduction in the deficit...will take place in the fiscal year '82. -- Ronald Reagan
The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action. -- William Burnham Woods
A lot of people know that something very drastic has happened to the very idea of America. -- John Cusack
Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things. -- Damian Marley
I try to do the things that speak to me in one way or another, and sometimes I'm even drastic. -- Mark Ruffalo
It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe.... -- Frederick Seitz
If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational. -- Samantha Bond
What he brought out was a wooden gag they put in someone's mouth before doing something drastic, like cutting off a leg. -- Megan Whalen Turner
The Apollo programme of the 1960s had some weight problems, too; in particular, the lunar lander needed some fairly drastic weight-reduction work. -- Henry Spencer
Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self... -- Robin Morgan
Then based on her own recent experience, the Divine Presence had a cruelly perverse sense of humor and His Grand Plan needed drastic revision. -- Judith McNaught
Women who do look like men have taken some rather drastic steps in that direction that have little to do with their exercise program. -- Mark Rippetoe
Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn't take anything drastic. You needn't be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic! -- Bette Midler
I don't know just what, but there will have to be some drastic changes made besides cutting down on boating to get my mind more on painting. -- E. J. Hughes
No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time and heavy burden of history, as Israel. -- Barbara Tuchman
During the next four years...unless drastic steps are taken by Congress, the U.S. will have nearly 8,000,000 unemployed and will stand on the brink of a deep depression. -- Henry A. Wallace
An Ice Age is coming and I welcome it as much-needed changing. I see no solution to our ruination of earth except for a drastic reduction of the human population. -- David Foreman
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
I am a believer in change peu a` peu (little by little) since drastic changes, including lots of changes made all at once, are often the sort of modifications that don't stick. -- Mireille Guiliano
Every Congressman, every Senator knows precisely what causes inflation... but can't, [won't] support the drastic reforms to stop it [repeal of the Federal Reserve Act] because it could cost him his job. -- Robert A. Heinlein
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

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