Quotes with it-almost

Quotes 61 till 80 of 433.

  • Arne Jacobsen Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Bill Gates Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.
    "Bill Gates: Innovating to zero!", Feb 2010. www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • George Santayana Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Edith Wharton Almost everybody in the neighborhood had ''troubles,'' frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had ''complications.'' To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years wit
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Alan Alda Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Bill Gurley Almost everybody who thinks about local thinks about daily deals, but companies like OpenTable and Zillow and Yelp are all getting their money from the local market.
    Bill Gurley
    American businessman (1966 - )
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  • Buddy Rich Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Bertrand Russell Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Bob Parsons Almost nothing works the first time it's attempted. Just because what you're doing does not seem to be working, doesn't mean it won't work. It just means that it might not work the way you're doing it.
    Bob Parsons
    American entrepreneur, billionaire, and philanthropist (1950 - )
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  • Benjamin Tucker Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Alan Dundes Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Bennie Thompson Americans have almost been conditioned to believe that the majority of people who seek to do us harm are those of Muslim descent.
    Bennie Thompson
    American politician (1948 - )
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  • Alan Greenspan An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Bayard Taylor An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Arthur Hugh Clough And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him.
    Arthur Hugh Clough
    English poet (1819 - 1861)
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  • Carlton Fisk And then after that, running around the bases, it was just one of those things. You couldn't believe what happened to you. And I look back on it, it's almost like it happened to somebody else.
    Carlton Fisk
    American baseball player (1947 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Alan Alda Anyone I know who's almost died has come out of it, at least for a while, looking at things differently.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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