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Give me Caviar Kaspia and give me a hamburger. I love the two extremes. -- Michael Kors
My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of 'raises left eyebrow' and 'raises right eyebrow.' -- Roger Moore
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. -- Karen Abbott
The most gloomy prognosis about Jewish life is that it will disappear between the two extremes of ultra-Orthodoxy on the one hand and total assimilation on the other. But those are very exaggerated scenarios. -- Simon Schama
I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes. -- Geddy Lee
What I saw when I was doing research is that in pursuit of a middle ground, people will kind of split the difference between the two extremes that they're hearing. And I think what's problematic is that people are seeing vaccinating on schedule, on time, as an extreme position. -- Eula Biss
Keep a mid course between two extremes. -- Ovid
Perfect courage and utter cowardice are two extremes which rarely occur. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half. -- Eric Maisel
Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice. -- Aristotle
The right way usually lies between two extremes: it is the narrow channel between the rock and the whirlpool. -- Charles Spurgeon
In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience... -- John Naisbitt
There is no golden mean between these two extremes; either this early life must become low in our estimation, or it will have our inordinate love. -- John Calvin
The virtuous man takes the middle road between the two extremes, making a point of being respectful of his own ideas without changing his personality or style. -- Auliq Ice
There are two extremes to avoid: being completely absorbed in your pain and being distracted by so many things that you stay far away from the wound you want to heal. -- Henri
Something I keep coming back to in my music is the tension between two extremes: healing and chaos, hope and anxiety - these big themes are inside us, flickering, all day. -- Arca
Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes. -- Albert Camus
The gnosis of God is intermediate between immoderation, which is ascribing human characteristics to God, and negligence, which is denying any attributes to God. . . The Truth lies in the balance between the two extremes. -- Ibn Ata Allah
By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle, and we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching through an educational system is a sure cure for ignorance and mediocrity. -- Henry Ford
The Democrats and Republicans stand at two extremes, characterized by which parts of our lives they emphasize their desire to control. Libertarians reject both extremes in favor of the government leaving control of your life to you. -- Michael Badnarik
The Buddha's message was simple but profound. Neither a life of self-indulgence nor one of self-mortification can bring happiness. Only a middle path, avoiding these two extremes, leads to peace of mind, wisdom, & complete liberation from the dissatisfactions of life. -- Henepola Gunaratana
The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes. -- Alain de Botton
The one thing that TV is bad at doing is preaching. There are two extremes, you either turn the people into a punchline or turn them into hero, and both of those things suck, because most people are neither in real life. -- Mike Rowe
Do you ask what sort of a maid I desire or dislike, Flaccus? I dislike one too easy and one too coy. The just mean, which lies between the two extremes, is what I approve; I like neither that which tortures nor that which cloys. -- Martial
We meet With few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between these two extremes: the interval is filled with multitudes of ordinary geniuses, but all very useful, and the ornaments and supports of the commonwealth. -- Jean de la Bruyere
If you have not even a little imagination, you are simply a brute. So you must not lower your ideal, neither are you to lose sight of practicality. We must avoid the two extremes.... You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality. -- Swami Vivekananda
An enormously vast field lies between "God exists" and "there is no God." The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty. A Russian knows one or the other of these two extremes, but is not interested in the middle ground. He usually knows nothing, or very little. -- Anton Chekhov
You can see the meaning of the statement that "Literature is a living art" most easily and clearly, perhaps, by contrasting Science and Art at their two extremes - say Pure Mathematics and Acting. Science as a rule deals with things, Art with man's thought and emotion about things. -- Arthur Quiller-Couch
Musicals and horror movies are my two favorite genres because they're about extremes. -- Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
My favorite Extreme records were the last two. I can't listen to the first one. -- Gary Cherone
If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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. -- Andrew Lo
It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme. -- William Graham Sumner
They're pretty extreme, but I loved the two 'Human Centipede' films from Tom Six. Those movies are fun because they're well-made. They're crazy and psychotic and perverted and twisted, but they're really well-made. -- Bill Moseley
I think the Cowboys are one of only two teams in all of sports that engender love and hate to that extreme. The other is the Yankees. You love the Yankees or you hate the Yankees. -- Al Michaels
With marriage and fatherhood, I've finally found two fixed points in my life. They've taught me patience. They've also taught me that I don't need to feel guilty about being happy. My emotional seasons are less extreme. -- Pete Wentz
Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the despots more bloodthirsty and clownish, the violence more extreme, and the conditions of ordinary existence more ghastly. -- James Buchan
I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction. -- James McGreevey
I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one extreme opinion a month. I don't know how these columnists have two or three ideas a week; I was having difficulty having 12 things to say a year. -- Salman Rushdie
In-between' is sort of - an animator does the key poses. He'll do extremes, you know, like a character reaching out for a glass of water and then another one of him drinking. And the in-betweener has to do all the drawings that goes between those two. You know it could be 12, 23 whatever in-betweens. -- Pete Docter
We filmed 'Labyrinth' in South Africa for two and a half months and it was just the most unbelievable experience. Lots of sword fighting, mud in hair and lots of weeping! It's very different from 'Downton' because I was going to work and having mud put in my hair - it's the other extreme of the look! -- Jessica Brown Findlay
The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese. -- Mae Whitman
There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in. -- Blaise Pascal
The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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