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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
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It's almost impossible to break a losing streak on your own. Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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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
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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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Today, the IT manager is under pressure from many, many different fronts. He has the challenges of budget where almost 80 percent of the IT budget is spent just on running the services that they have in place today -- with the cost of electricity being the second highest consumer of that budget and labor costs being the first.
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Today, the astronaut corps is almost 25% female, ... and I want that to continue to rise. Sally Ride
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To make a decision to work in the field of space science is almost the ultimate in delayed gratification. Michael Griffin
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Time begins on Opening Day . . . (when) we know that something fine, almost wonderful, is about to (happen). Thomas Boswell
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Three days ago it looked like it might be a possibility. He is doing better. It's just not the right time to push it. Also, if we would have did it, he would have been playing a game without almost any practice time leading up to it, which would have been hard. It makes it tough because he does a good job on (Shaquille O'Neal). Rick Carlisle
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To win it back, you'd almost like the same side to go out there and give them a run for their money. But I'm not looking that far ahead, because I hit England batting well and I missed out after that. I'll just try and get through this tour.
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'True Blood' allows you to be big, so it's almost like you're on stage, and I'm comfortable with that. Rutina Wesley
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Troy, he was huge tonight. When he hits those shots, we're almost impossible to guard, because he spreads the court out so well.
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Trouble is, we call politics a game, but it isn't one. There is no referee, and the teams make up the rules as they go along. You can't cry foul or offside in politics. Almost anything goes. Michael Ignatieff
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TR is the perfect ex-president to study as a role model. He attained almost bigger stature out of the White House than within. Douglas Brinkley
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Travis is such a good athlete we can put him in almost any event.
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Travis came out harder than he's done before. He almost shot right off the whistle, which we thought might happen, but he didn't go for it. I got to know Travis fairly well and their coaches, and I have a lot of respect for their program. Those guys are outstanding, but it's just a pleasure to beat them. Certainly that's what we want to do.
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Today's Main Street is missing places where parents can bring their children, not just come to drink and dine and stroll around. There's not the variety or the cultural development. It's almost exclusively student-oriented. The city is ignoring the needs of longtime residents. David Robertson
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Today's global market means that you pay less for almost everything you buy. This has cost some American jobs, and we have to work harder at creating new and better ones. Lou Dobbs
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Yeah, I wasn't real happy ... at that point, ... Being inside of somebody is pretty difficult here and especially coming off the turn. There were a couple of close calls where I almost spun off inside of him and got a little upset. But fortunately it didn't have an effect on the outcome of the race. Jimmy Johnson
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Yeah, it was disappointing. You want to be in. I'm not about to jump off a building, though. We've had a great year. It was almost one of those years, and maybe that will make us hungrier for the future. We're trying to build a program here.
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You know what he was doing. Get us to take a swing at him, we're brought up for assaulting a federal officer. I came close, you know it? I almost popped him in the mouth. Frankie Bones