Quotes about almost
almost among architecture art authentic cost problem quality question reached throughout time
The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Surprisingly, the Eisenhower Memorial design contains almost none of the known Gehry-box of tricks. His giant etched chain-link curtain, first applied in 1979 to hide an ungracious parking garage at Santa Monica Place, is resurrected for Eisenhower to screen the equally graceless facade of the Department of Education. Leon Krier
almost american-architect guys hope lives losing suppose weeping
I suppose and I hope that the young guys who are out there losing their lives at least feel the same way I did. I shouldn't think about this very much because I'm almost weeping when I think about it. Lawrence Halprin
almost intimate obsessive relationship
I have this almost obsessive desire to whomever is close to me: I want to have a very intense, close, intimate relationship with them. Susanne Bier
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The death of Wang, coming almost exactly one year after Koo, is a loss for both sides of the Strait.
almost balkans crises death era sealed tragic wars
The death of Slobodan Milosevic sealed a tragic era of tensions, crises and wars which plagued the Balkans for almost a decade.
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The crews almost got a free pass in terms of road cleanup on Sunday because they were largely alone on the highways.
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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
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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
almost girls impossible nice parenting power princess quite terrible
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
almost music sanctity spiritual
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
almost arrive browse pleasures sitting staying table
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
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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.
almost decision event everybody graduate kids positive watching
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
almost boy cost dear family invasion iraq led loss occupation pay price
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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False thinking and false ideologies, dressed in the most pleasing forms, quietly - almost without our knowing it - seek to reduce our moral defenses and to captivate our minds. They entice with bright promises of security, cradle-to-grave guarantees of many kinds. Ezra Taft Benson
almost blessed good great lord
In my almost 92 years on this earth, the good Lord has blessed me with a great journey. Ernie Harwell
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It's almost embarrassing, but I do have one trick for taking portraits on commission. I carry one of these little bicycle horns in my pocket, and once in a while, when someone is sour-faced or stiff, I blow my horn. It sort of shatters the barriers. It's silly, but it works. Elliott Erwitt
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Of all the things I've done, the first 'Strongman' story was one of the easiest things to write. It was almost fully formed from the get-go. It's almost a 'Dark Knight Returns' riff, except you have a battle-worn Mexican wrestler instead of Batman. Charles Soule
almost cosmos events fact involved marvel respect royalty themselves work
Specifically with respect to the Inhumans, they are almost a mythological creation in and of themselves - the way they work, the way they operate, the fact that they're royalty - and they've always been involved with a lot of the big cosmos events that Marvel has done.
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I've heard that almost all the people crowding around the big art openings barely look at the work on display and are just there to hobnob. Nothing wrong with that, except that none of them ever come back to look at the art - but they will tell everyone, and actually believe, that they have seen the exhibition. Charles Saatchi
almost cup games life olympic time
Don't ever in your life do a World Cup and the Olympic Games at the same time. This will make your life almost impossible. Eduardo Paes
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.