I BECAME the master of playing the straight BAT - I would go to bars with the BOYS, I would always be the one to start a fight, to be outrageous and drink the most. I even went to the extreme of MARRYING the perfect WOMAN for me.

If one in four Dutch PEOPLE SAYING they will vote for my party, it's ridiculous to say we're DIVISIVE or EXTREME.

In Switzerland, we have a centuries-old tradition of living together in one confederation and one SOCIETY. That holds us back from excesses. We are a civilized and enlightened COMMUNITY and, by practising multicultural TOLERANCE, we manage to STOP extreme developments from GOING too far.

We, as HUMAN BEINGS, have the CAPACITY for EXTREME CRUELTY.

In the CURRENT scenario of CLIMATE CHANGE, predictions of extreme weather EVENTS are BECOMING difficult.

It's really SAD sometimes that you have to go to that extreme bottom to FIND your way BACK up, but it's true.

I understand it now because I worked with the BEST of the best, but I didn't get at FIRST that PEOPLE have an EXTREME passion for wrestling and the wrestlers. The fans are really intimately CONNECTED with each wrestler.

I GREW up in Miami watching baseball down there, so you COULD see it from one EXTREME to the next. It was like, 'Well, this is what baseball is about.'

To my CHILD's EYES, which had seen nothing else, SHANGHAI was a WAKING dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.

I find FAME to be QUITE unnatural. Humans are not built for EXTREME adoration.

The EXTREME LIMIT of WISDOM, that's what the PUBLIC CALLS madness.

I had been a HURRICANE all my life. And that was, of COURSE, because I was BIPOLAR and did not know it. And I was - you know, the mania took control. When you're on stage and when you're PERFORMING, you're heightened, and it's an extreme.

I LOVE EXTREME SPORTS, I LIKE snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and HOCKEY.

We're CONSTANTLY re-evaluating the potential for life. We're finding it where we didn't think it could exist, such as volcanic vents and other extreme CONDITIONS LIKE under arctic ice. We're finding life in these incredibly HARSH and dynamic conditions, so we're having to re-evaluate our own ideas of what's POSSIBLE on this planet alone.

I'm not an extreme tree-hugger. I do BELIEVE trees GROW and are a useful agricultural PRODUCT that can be harvested WITHOUT damaging the ecology and wildlife.