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We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell. -- Vicente del Bosque
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
Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I don't starve myself in an extremist way. You're not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because I'd be devastated. -- Jennifer Aniston
War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them? -- Rush Limbaugh
Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies. -- Jonas Gahr Store
If we follow the traditional way of thought, there will always be traditional enemies. Extremist circles from both sides will find causes to give rise to problems. -- Fatos Nano
Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them. -- Leo Rosten
I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist. -- Leif Garrett
My style's not for everyone - I'm an extremist. -- Taylor Momsen
Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate. -- Leon Jaworski
Extremists have shown what frightens them most. A girl with a book. -- Malala Yousafzai
Perhaps...the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In an age of militant mediocrity, an 'extremist' is anyone who takes a position. -- John Loeffler
It is necessary to suppress any extremist actions, on all sides, regardless of their origin. -- Vladimir Putin
Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality. -- Pat Robertson
The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women. -- Malala Yousafzai
I understand that it's good tactics to categorize me as a close-minded, unobjective extremist, but nobody that respects me has those views. -- Alan Dershowitz
There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist techniques. -- Jean-Francois Cope
Was not Jesus an extremist in love? - "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Was not Paul an extremist for the gospel of Jesus Christ? - "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You see in times of crisis that extremist forces, populist forces, have a better ground to oversimplify things and to manipulate feelings. Feelings of fear. -- Jose Manuel Barroso
The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world. -- Boris Yeltsin
Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice, or will we be extremists for the cause of justice? -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Koch brothers, through the expenditure of billions of dollars and the creation and support of dozens of extreme right organizations, have taken fringe extremist ideas and made them mainstream within the Republican Party. -- Bernie Sanders
What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. -- Robert Kennedy
I turned atheist in the 90s when India went through troubled times - communal riots, bomb blasts... Mumbai, where I live, was badly affected. I blamed religion; also, extremists on both sides - right and left. -- Amish Tripathi
One of the reasons MSNBC is plummeting is that I, not long ago, refused to play any content from them. I figured, why? I mean, it's genuine depraved partisan politics insanity, genuine extremist radical ignoramuses on that network. -- Rush Limbaugh
Proponents of same-sex marriage regularly label opponents 'radical' and 'extremist.' However, given that no society in thousands of years has allowed same-sex marriage, it is, by definition, the proponents of same-sex marriage whose position is radical and extreme. -- Dennis Prager
The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency). -- Tariq Ramadan
Much extremist activity falls short of directly inciting people to violence or other crimes and so is not caught by laws on incitement. Neither does the Public Order Act, used to protect groups of people from harassment, deal with the problem. -- David Blunkett
I've got used to criticisms and, naturally, I try to make sure I don't listen to the more extreme ones because most of the people who have taken their right-wing extremist view of my life are people that I've never met. -- Maurice Strong
The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing. -- Booker T. Washington
Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children. -- Hillary Clinton
I'm an extremist so I'm either hated or loved. I think it's down to when I first got to Formula One not always knowing what I was saying, saying things that mean one thing but people were taking the other way and then people don't forget. -- Lewis Hamilton
The most extremist power any political leader can assert is the power to target his own citizens for execution without any charges or due process, far from any battlefield. The Obama administration has not only asserted exactly that power in theory, but has exercised it in practice. -- Glenn Greenwald
I think what's going to hurt the Republicans enormously is the extremist position of Mitt Romney on the immigration issue and states like New Mexico, states like Colorado, Nevada, Arizona - and I think it's going to be the margin of victory for President Obama, a very narrow victory. -- Bill Richardson
There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons. -- Ehud Olmert
There is no right way to go on an edible journey. You can never tell what is going to be great, so you have to try everything. If you become doctrinaire about sticking to lowbrow foods or epicurean delights, your just being an extremist, and it won't do you any good. -- Adam Richman
You have to be an extremist to believe that you're gonna be the president of the United States and your name is Barack Hussein Obama! And he's using extreme methods, but his application is very smooth. Michelle Obama is extreme, her presence is extreme. And it's an extreme good. Extreme is not negative. -- Mos Def
There are good intentions behind many people's conversion to veganism, including an admirable devotion to the well-being of animals and a justified skepticism about the crap the USDA allows manufacturers to put in our food. But it's hard to ignore the often sanctimonious nature of what some nutritionists view as an 'extremist' way of eating. -- Julie Klausner
But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the label. Was not Jesus an extremist for love: 'Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.' -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In that dramatic scene on Calvary's hill three men were crucified.... All three were crucified for the same crime-the crime of extremism. Two were extremists for immorality, and thus fell below their environment. The other, Jesus Christ, was an extremist for love, truth and goodness, and thereby rose above his environment. Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I accept the term extremist with pride. -- Ashin Wirathu
Martin Luther King was an extremist of love. -- Cornel West
One stupid act of some stupid extremist puts us all down. -- Amani
The extremist, isolationist policies of Jean-Marie Le Pen have been rejected and crushed -- Romano Prodi
Chance explorations on search engines do not 'accidentally' lead users to extremist websites. -- Maajid Nawaz
Don't forget Yemen, where there are also extremist elements, as we saw recently. -- David Petraeus
The University of Westminster is well known for being a hotbed of extremist activity. -- Maajid Nawaz
I've found that balance is key. I'm no longer an extremist in any one direction. -- Carre Otis
Poverty and deprivation lead to frustration, making the masses vulnerable to exploitation by extremist organizations. -- Pervez Musharraf
The United States of America is engaged in a war against an extremist group of folks. -- George W. Bush
What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism. -- Maajid Nawaz
If we say leaders are incompetent, we are going to fuel extremist, populist, xenophobic and ultra-nationalist parties. -- Jose Manuel Barroso
But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me. -- Jon Ronson
The paranoid fear of government is an extremist position, and every one of us ought to say that -- Patricia Schroeder
I get into each thing I do, to the point where nothing else matters. I guess I'm an extremist. -- Neil Young
The gravest threat faced by the world is of an extremist group getting hold of nuclear weapons or materials. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions. -- Rivka Galchen
According to the oil and gas industry and their proponents, I am a communist, terrorist, Nazi, Russian-sympathizing, anti-American, arsonist, extremist. -- Josh Fox
I have founded Khudi, in Pakistan, a youth movement which tries to counter extremist ideology through healthy discussion and debate. -- Maajid Nawaz
I don't like the new president who hunts muslim extremists, I like the old president who is a muslim extremist. -- Stephen Colbert
I'm an extremist? I don't think so. I think people that call me an extremist are extremely brain dead and soulless. -- Ted Nugent
Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women. -- Lina Wertmuller
We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony. -- Lizz Winstead
But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans. -- Peter T. King
But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans. -- Peter T. King
An intelligence analyst may attribute an attack to al Qaeda, whereas a policy maker could opt for the more general 'extremist.' -- Michael Hayden
An aggressor nation or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals. -- Leon Panetta
Call me an extremist but killing a few hundred million people seems like the sort of method that might have unintended consequences. -- James Nicoll
The combination of extremist ideology, a warped understanding of reality and nuclear weapons is a combination that no-one in the international community can accept. -- Mark Regev
The current situation in Iraq is ultimately a crisis of governance, which has allowed extremist groups to take advantage of disillusioned segments of the Iraqi population. -- Tim Kaine
I'm an extremist. Either I'm being healthy and organic, or I want a big, juicy In-N-Out burger, I want it all now! It sure makes me happy. -- Paula Patton
The question in crisis or ordeal is not: Are you going to be an extremist? The question is: What kind of extremist are you going to be? -- Lillian Smith
A fictional, but all too real, look at extremist militias in the United States and the extent to which some of them go to carry out their 'missions'. -- Jon Niccum
God, a born extremist, is the diplomat's worst enemy. Quite apart from the fact that His decrees are irrevocable, the Absolute will not allow anyone to relativize matters. -- Regis Debray
Open debate is our strongest tool in standing up to extremism. The far more dangerous avenue is to force extremist ideas underground, where they can fester without competition. -- Jonas Gahr Store
Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox very well.** (emphasis by author) [2002] p.25f -- Gary Hamel
The terrorists want civil war. Al-Qaida is attacking Shiites. The Shiite militias are taking revenge on the Sunnis. And the Sunnis are become more extremist, with some joining al-Qaida. -- Zalmay Khalilzad
I am a feminist, but I'm not an extremist. I know what feminism is, but I'm not all women empowerment, marching in the streets. I'm not a die-hard girl's girl. -- Scheana Marie
Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world -- Boris Yeltsin
Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world." -- Boris Yeltsin
If someone says, 'No, no, no, the earth is round!', they think this person is an extremist. That's what it's like for someone with my right-of-centre views working inside the BBC. -- Jeff Randall
People do not know what an absolute extremist left-wing radical Tim Kaine has been his entire life and they're going to do everything they can to try to mask and cover that up . -- Donald Trump
I take a very simple view that a violent extremist at some point previously been an extremist, and by definition is an extremist, so you do need to look at that non-violent extremism. -- Theresa May
There are common denominators that unite all members of al-Nahda: There is no one in al-Nahda who doubts about Islam There is no one in al-Nahda that believes in extremist views of Islam. -- Rashid al-Ghannushi
Yes, I'm an extremist. The Black race here in North America is in extremely bad condition. You show me a Black man who isn't an extremist and I'll show you one who needs psychiatric attention. -- Malcolm X

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