5,533 Quotes About Almost

  • Author Paolo Bacigalupi
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    When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.

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  • Author Paolo Bacigalupi
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    I'm definitely writing my fears. It's almost therapeutic to at least voice a terror, to say, 'I'm worried that Lake Powell looks low and Lake Mead looks even lower.'

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  • Author Pat Brennan
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    We were up five in overtime almost too early. There was so much time left for stuff to happen. Fate down the end didn't go our way in terms of fouls and foul shots. I thought we shot OK from the line (9-for-20), but you can't win championships shooting OK from the line. You've got to do better than OK.

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  • Author Paul Ballew
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    The market below $12,500 is almost a million units. It's too big to ignore. We think long term that market will shrink a little further. It may be only a half-million units at some point. But with our global position and product, it's a half-million-unit market we can go after.

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  • Author Paul Bilodeau
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    We try to use almost 10 players every game. We like to press and get our offense off the transition defense. So far, we've been successful at that. We've been pushing the ball up the floor. It's been good to us so far. We're 10-1, the kids are playing well. They like it, too, because they all get more time in the game, so it keeps everybody happy.

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  • Author Paul Bloom
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    Almost nobody believes anymore that infants are insensate blobs. It seems both mad and evil to deny experience and feeling to a laughing, gurgling creature.

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  • Author Paul Broun
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    If passed by the U.N. and ratified by the U.S. Senate, the U.N. Small Arms Treaty would almost certainly force the United States to... create an international gun registry, setting the stage for full-scale gun confiscation.

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  • Author Pearl Bailey
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    Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.

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