Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.
It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.
One has this image of the Soviet state and the Red Army as being extremely disciplined but in the first four months of 1945 their soldiers were completely out of control.
We expect that in the next years, the economy will improve. And we expect that extreme poverty will drop from 22 percent to 11 percent by the year 2000.
The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone, either.
A lot of people like to be supertiny, but I don't want a child's body - I want a woman's body that is extremely fit. It's so much sexier.
I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of clinicians can handle.
Among other things, I use a Samsung mobile phone, a very bad quality video camera, and an old Olympus with extremely bad Sigma lenses.
Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical. There are pockets of extremism in Israel, in the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we have to fight them with reason, with logic and with compassion.
Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.
A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
You know, the cynicism that is in the politics, it is not for my soul. It makes me - out of me, an extremely bitter, cynical person that I hate to see in the mirror, really.
I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.
Life is a strong drink served up in an extremely short, and fragile shot glass. We shouldn't waste a single drop.
There are many legal and psychological ramifications to using Krav Maga in the real world and nearly all of them are extremely unpleasant.
Phule had propounded the theory of the Aryan invasion as the source of oppression; dalit radicals of the 1920s took it to its extreme; Amedkar denied it.
Every utterance is an event, and no two events are precisely alike. The extreme view, therefore, is that no word ever means the same thing twice.
I've always had, when I needed it, an extreme amount of focus that I could put into something. That has served me well.
Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?
Although the general security situation for the Beijing Olympics remains stable, we still face the challenges of terrorism, separatism and extremism.
The players have competed on the level the last 25 or 30 years are always going to be the players that compete at a high level. These guys practice hard, they work on their game, they still hit the ball extremely well.
