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Rampant eclecticism is my middle name. -- Linda Ronstadt
Rampant inflation is just as hard to live with as the devaluation of commodities. -- David Harvey
Rampant technolgy eliminates luxury, but not by declaring privilege a human right; rather, it does so by both raising the general standard of living and cutting off the possibility of fulfilment. -- Theodor Adorno
Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication. -- Karen Black
As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there. -- Ben Mendelsohn
Dubai must crack down on rampant smuggling, and the U.A.E. federal government has significantly stepped up pressure. -- Elliott Abrams
Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my parents' divided attention. -- Janine di Giovanni
I started turning 40 at 38. I had pains all over my body. I couldn't sleep, I had rampant anxiety, and I couldn't stop eating and drinking. -- Lorraine Gary
Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone. -- Powell Clayton
Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership. -- Bob Etheridge
Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that were rampant. -- Paul Berg
Unfortunately, from what I can see from my vantage point as the U.S. Attorney here, illegal insider trading is rampant and may even be on the rise. -- Preet Bharara
Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration, insane business regulations and staggering national unemployment are pushing our nation into unchartered territory. -- James Lankford
And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty. -- Vernor Vinge
In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other. -- Zygmunt Bauman
Lesbianism is so rampant in some of the schools in southeast Oklahoma that they'll only let one girl go to the bathroom. Now think about it. Think about that issue. How is it that that's happened to us? -- Tom Coburn
I look forward to standing shoulder to shoulder with Speaker Boehner, Leader Cantor, Whip McCarthy and the entire republican conference as we repeal Obamacare, fight rampant job killing regulations, cut spending and help put folks back to work. -- Fred Upton
My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth. -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
There's no question that homophobia is rampant among the world's 1.5 billion Muslims - but that doesn't negate the fact that there are huge groups of Muslims who have easily reconciled their faith and sexual orientation, like LGBT people in other faith communities. -- Reza Aslan
But the Bible speaks against it, and because the Bible speaks against it, we allow rampant sin including homosexuality and lying, and to me lying is just as b ad as homosexuality, and we've allowed this sin to run rampant in our nation. -- Reggie White
Exploitation was rampant before statehood, and various factions actively tried to eradicate the roots of Hawaiian culture in the process of converting the natives to European religious beliefs. Some of the results can never be undone. We try to honor what is left. -- Todd Rundgren
Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that feels as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and something that has blocked you in such a big way. -- Laura Wilkinson
There is a rampant tendency in any industry where someone is trying to sell something with a bunch of data, where they cherry pick a little bit... bias a little bit. This becomes quite easy when there is an enormous amount of data to cherry pick from. -- Burt Rutan
If I let a blue mood run rampant, before I know it I'm obsessing about the color of the satin lining in my coffin - will it match my dress? That's when I feel like Alice in Cancerland falling down the rabbit hole and just have to stop. -- Kris Carr
Whenever I speak at the United Nations, UNICEF or elsewhere to raise awareness of the continual and rampant recruitment of children in wars around the world, I come to realize that I still do not fully understand how I could have possibly survived the civil war in my country, Sierra Leone. -- Ishmael Beah
You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in Armani cloth sacks - especially in a time like ours, when materialism is not only rampant and ascendant but is fast becoming the only game in town. -- George Saunders
When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever. -- Helen Mirren
Animal abuse is rampant in the U.S., right under everyone's eyes, for the entertainment of the public. The brutal confinement and pain of training methods of wild animals in the circus, the aquatic and theatrical shows, leads to retaliation by the animals. Eventually they find the right time to strike out, and they will. -- Tippi Hedren
I am rampant with memory. -- Margaret Laurence
I consider myself a rampant feminist. -- Cindy Gallop
Crime is rampant. We even steal away from responsibility. -- Andre Brie
The inner child runs rampant. They're just smaller, that's all. -- Jim Carrey
I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity. -- Jonathan Miller
I do think homophobia in the '80s was more rampant and socially acceptable. -- Eric Andre
If your focus is always changing, expect confusion to be rampant on your team. -- David Cottrell
Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant -- Antonio Machado
Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant. -- Antonio Machado
[T]he army of wrongness rampant in the world might as well march over me. -- Truman Capote
The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst. -- Larry Wall
There is a bigotry rampant in America, against evangelicals. It is the last respectable bigotry. -- Michael Novak
If environmental protection efforts continue to lag behind economic growth, pollution will become even more rampant. -- Zhou Shengxian
Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death. -- Llewellyn Rockwell
Ignorance is venomous and it murders the soul, spreading like a virus, running rampant, out of control. -- Immortal Technique
Every penny of the $7 billion going to Africa as per Obama will be stolen - corruption is rampant! -- Donald Trump
The misapprehension about me is that I am some loud, rampant maniac. I am actually very pensive and quiet. -- Brian Blessed
But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years. -- Bill Condon
Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere. -- Don Roff
Everyone faces challenges from the fierce competition as well as the manipulative crooks that are rampant throughout the music business. -- Wendy Starland
The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility, their disinclination to earn an honest dollar... -- Robertson Davies
Superficial religion consists of merely believing certain truths and doing certain things....such superficial religion is rampant in the world today. -- David Platt
We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant. -- Julius Nyerere
In some settings, however, rampant opportunistic behavior severely limits what can be done jointly without major investments in monitoring and sanctioning arrangements. -- Elinor Ostrom
Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm. -- Cormac McCarthy
Among women, guilt spreads with the rampant fury of bubonic plague. ... I used to feel guilty if the cat had matted fur. -- Sue Thoele
We live in far too permissive a society. Never before has pornography been this rampant. And those films are so badly lit! -- Woody Allen
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There is rampant among us a spirit of criticism. Men and women who carry heavy responsibility do not need criticism, they need encouragement. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
There are potential policy consequences to a president who doesn`t believe in our election system and believes that there`s rampant voter fraud. -- Chuck Todd
Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash. -- Chuck Palahniuk
You may only get this one life â?? but lived free of submissive reverence â?? that is still a thing of rampant beauty. -- Trevor Treharne
The U. S. is becoming more hostile to Black people and other people of color. Racism is running rampant and xenophobia is on the rise -- Assata Shakur
The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms -- Bertrand Russell
Maybe if we can find time to hug and cherish our families and the people around us, child suicide or college suicide wouldn't be rampant. -- Uwem Akpan
The tendency of the UN and its major supporters is to think good intentions and mild to rampant corruption are as good as actual results. -- John Hamill
The world is changing rapidly, and everyone changes along with the world. Discoveries is now becoming rampant; intellectually, technologically,etc, each having its advantage and disadvantage. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, football; you name it. Any testosterone contest imaginable is fair game. -- Jonathan Raymond
I long to drift through turquoise skies;race the wind in rampant flight.Ruddy chains have framed my eyes,they seize my heart and stain the light. -- Craig Froman
Man was made to lead with his chin; he is worth knowing only with his guard down, his head up and his heart rampant on his sleeve. -- Robert Farrar Capon
The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life. -- Samuel Richardson
I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant. -- Joanne Harris
There is no War on Terrorism; it is The Great Game speeded up. The difference is the rampant nature of the superpower, ensuring infinite dangers for us all. -- John Pilger
Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up? -- Dodie Smith
Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
In our world of rampant individualisation, relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other. -- Zygmunt Bauman
When I was growing up in the 1930s and '40s anti-Semitism was rampant. It wasn't like Nazi Germany but it was pretty serious - it was part of life. -- Noam Chomsky
Similarities in the vampire genre are so rampant that there's really no such thing as an original idea - only an original take on an idea that's been done before. -- Jeaniene Frost
In a society in which individualism is becoming rampant, people more and more believe that they are the center of the world. Such a belief system makes individual failure almost inconsolable. -- Martin Seligman
Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowest level of intelligence and taste. -- Bill Watterson
The specific danger is us; we are rampant; this earth is our only friend; we are destroying it increment by increment at a horrific rate. We must understand that we can't buy it back. -- William Kittredge
I think 9/11 was a couple of thousand assholes in Afghanistan who ran rampant and just kind of did their thing and we could have gotten them in Tora Bora if that was handled better. -- Richard Patrick
There's rampant sexism, of course there is! It just goes without saying. Every woman in the workplace knows this; [every woman] in the workplace has to work harder than a man to prove themselves. -- Nancy Grace
We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing. What the hell is going on? -- John W. Vessey, Jr.
Travel' is the name of a modern disease which became rampant in themid-fifties and is still spreading. The disease - its scientific name is travelitis furiosus - is carried by a germ called prosperity. -- George Mikes
We will, at some point, reflect back at our rampant acceptance of speciesism with profound regret. Our journey to understanding that all demonstrations of life possess equal value is a slow and harrowing one. -- Ian Somerhalder
Finlay was the godfather of a problem that's rampant everywhere today. He called the people who made his work 'collaborators'... nowadays it's 'fabricators'... talented people who are grateful, desperate and thwarted. There's plenty of them. -- Alexander Stoddart

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