Quotes about almost
almost run
We'd make a run and they'd answer. We would have had to play almost flawless.
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We were lackluster in our effort and we were outhustled. We had leads in every game, as many as eight points, and were just flat and couldn't hold on. Our hitting wasn't very strong and they returned almost everything we hit.
almost laughing
We were almost laughing at him, and now he's laughing at us. He's No.1, easy. And really, when he was young, at the beginning, he was really bad. Olivier Rochus
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We were almost in arbitration a couple of times, but everyone thought that it was in everybody's interest to reach a settlement. If you leave it up to an arbitrator, you have no control of the situation. We have a duty to represent the player, and that's what we did.
almost looking
We were almost frantically looking for what we were going to do. Chris Campbell
almost help score somehow
We've got nothing to lose. We're almost dead. I said that if I could play, I was going to play. I didn't help much. Somehow we have to score goals. Jaromir Jagr
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We definitely looked rusty and out of sync since we hadn't played for almost two weeks. Our decisions were very poor today. They need to be done much quicker if we are going to compete on a higher level.
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We gave them two bombs and it almost cost us the football game.
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We don't have to shore (the company) up. That debt is wiped out, ... Our shareholder value is about $500 million and we have almost no debt. So this transaction is not a financial burden to us.
almost animal animals ate eat
We don't know what the animal ate because it has a beak, and extant animals with beaks can eat almost anything.
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Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult. Damon Galgut
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America feels like home as much as it does here. Although it's a strange situation as I feel almost like I'm in no-man's land some of the time, because although I'm a resident, I still can't vote so I don't really have a say in what goes on where I live. Rick Allen
almost connects happens line phrase proper word
A song doesn't happen as a whole verse; it happens linearly, line by line, almost word by word, phrase by phrase. And if each phrase, each line, has a proper emotional feel and connects to the line before it and the line after it, the song will be doing what it should be doing. Robert Hunter
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Parenting girls makes you quite gender-conscious - it's almost impossible to fight the power of pink. It's not such a terrible thing to want to be a princess when you're five, but it would be nice if there were some other options. Robert Webb
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To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them. Robert Sternberg
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My music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship. Ravi Shankar
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AI does not keep me up at night. Almost no one is working on conscious machines. Deep learning algorithms, or Google search, or Facebook personalization, or Siri or self driving cars or Watson, those have the same relationship to conscious machines as a toaster does to a chess-playing computer. Ramez Naam
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Magical realism is a blending of the unusual or supernatural into an otherwise ordinary setting. And, to me, this perfectly describes the South. 'The Sugar Queen' involves a lot of magical happenings, but in a very down-home Southern setting. It's full of things that could almost be true. Sarah Addison Allen
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It's easy to laugh at etiquette, but in a hundred years, our children's grandchildren will almost certainly be laughing at us. Sara Sheridan
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One of the pleasures of staying with friends is that you get to browse their shelves. I always arrive with a book, but I almost never read it. It would be like sitting at their dinner table and opening a packet of sandwiches. Simon Hoggart
almost streak
It's almost impossible to break a losing streak on your own. Rosabeth Moss Kanter
almost graduated high joined life seminary twice
I was very serious about being a priest, twice in my life. Almost joined the Montfort Seminary after I graduated from high school. Almost went back in the seminary during college. Rudy Giuliani
almost bit caught
I like the idea of being caught between things, always being a bit of an outsider, having an outside eye on things - almost like a Shakespearean fool. Riz Ahmed
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The danger of pushing back the Oscars is that the other awards may steal the thunder. The Oscars can almost seem like an afterthought.
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The decision was a positive decision for everybody for the event to move. It's almost like watching one of your kids graduate and go on to college.
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The definition of gumbo is almost as slippery as that of Creole. Just as gumbo can contain pretty much any kind of meat or seafood, Creole is a vague and inclusive term for native New Orleanians, who may be black or white, depending on whom you're asking. Jay McInerney
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The deceptions and betrayals that led to the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq cost my family a price too dear to pay and almost too much to bear, the loss of my boy Casey. Cindy Sheehan
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The decent numbers we have seen will persist because mortgage approvals have rebounded so strongly and they are almost at the peak we saw in 2004.
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I loved Internet businesses, having built and sold one. And I loved the financial business, despite the fact that it was almost all a scam. James Altucher
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There's a crazy amount of goodwill, and I don't know where it came from, and I don't understand, but the more I pay attention to it, the more it's going to sting when it flips, so I think I'm almost subconsciously cultivating this naivety to it all. Feist
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I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel pressed and tense almost every day of my life about something or other. And I think it's the one thing, as I look into people's eyes, that I think I share with almost everybody. William Friedkin
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My first job out of college was six weeks of picking fruit alongside a dozen or so men from Mexico. The orchard was in Emmett, Idaho. The men spent almost nothing on themselves. Their paychecks went directly to their families back home.
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The tragedy of Eliot Spitzer is almost Greek: Ascendant son of wealth and privilege dedicates his life to social justice, warns of the corruption lurking among us, and falls victim to his inner demons at the very moment of vindication.