A Quotes
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“Almost every single person that I've worked with - whether it's been George Clooney or Robert DeNiro or Harvey Keitel, or whoever - the quality that I find that's most consistent in most of the people is the humility.”
“Almost every single thing you hope publication will do for you is a fantasy, a hologram--it's the eagle on your credit card that only seems to soar.”
“Almost every so called setback is an opportunity for growth, learning, self love, wisdom and humility”
“Almost every society on this planet has a few human beings who seek to distract attention from what is really going on, often because they have been brainwashed by others.”
“Almost every song on OK Computer revolves around how I am afraid computers get up at night and attempt to choke me with their wires.*doesn't laugh*”
“Almost every Spirit filled believer is able to prophesy on an inspirational level.”
“Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.”
“Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].”
“Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell.”
“Almost every time i saw you, you were with him. But one day, you walked up to the building alone. I was holding the door for several girls in front of you, and i waited for you to catch up. When you reached me, you look pleased, and a little surprised. Unlike the others, you didn't expect the door to be held for you by some random guy. You smiled up at me and said, 'Thank you.' That was the last straw. I prayed you 'd never come to a session, and not with him. I didn't want you to know i was the tutor.”
“Almost every time I speak to teenagers, particularly young female students who want to talk to me about feminism, I find myself staggered by how much they have read, how creatively they think and how curiously bullshit-resistant they are. Because of the subjects I write about, I am often contacted by young people and I see it as a part of my job to reply to all of them - and doing so has confirmed a suspicions I’ve had for some time. I think that the generation about to hit adulthood is going to be rather brilliant.
Young people getting older is not, in itself, a fascinating new cultural trend. Nonetheless the encroaching adulthood and the people who grew up in a world where expanding technological access collided with the collapse of the neoliberal economic consensus is worth paying attention to. Because these kids are smart, cynical and resilient, and I don’t mind saying that they scare me a little.”
“Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country”
Source: Wild Dreams of a New Beginning
“Almost every variation of Christianity had been in the business of suppressing sex and its enjoyment, but suppressed desires didn’t just disappear. They festered. They created guilt and shame and, in the worst cases, deviancy. We weren’t ashamed to enjoy food and alcohol in moderation—why were we so afraid of sex?”
Source: Priest
“Almost every venerable tradition at a men's club starts out as a joke.”
“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.”
“Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.”
Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding
“Almost every woman I have ever met has a secret belief that she is just on the edge of madness, that there is some deep, crazy part within her, that she must be on guard constantly against ‘losing control’ — of her temper, of her appetite, of her sexuality, of her feelings, of her ambition, of her secret fantasies, of her mind.”
Source: Sinister Wisdom 36: Surviving Psychiatric Assault & Creating Emotional Well-Being in Our Communities
“Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the thing by depicting it. I prefer to steer clear of anything aesthetic, so as not to set obstacles in my own way and not to have the problem of people saying: 'Ah, yes, that's how he sees the world, that's his interpretation.'”
Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007
“Almost every yogi that appeared in the book [The Yoga of Max's Discontent] is either somebody I have seen and met and spoken to, or someone who is in my three degrees of separation - I know the source who talks to me about it so well that I believe his story.”
“Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog.”
“Almost everybody embraces life.”
“Almost everybody I know has died,” Grandma said. “Bunch of wimps.”
Source: High Five
“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”
“Almost everybody in this world can’t bear to see the other person being better than him. In their attempts to raise their position a point above the others, people resort to bringing others a point down and not actually raising themselves a point above.”
Source: A Silent Promise
“Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.”
“Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.”
“Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.”
“Almost everybody thinks about philosophy, even if they don't realize it's philosophy and even if they have no sense of the difficulty of the problems, the array of possible answers.”
“Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one.”
Source: Managing in the Next Society
“Almost everybody wore a curious limpidity of expression, like newborn babies or souls just after death. Dazed but curiously dignified.... after a criseof hysterical revulsion and tiredness, I passed beyondand became entered by a rather sublime feeling.”
“Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.”
“Almost everybody's here doing the same thing. Who am I to come up with an excuse when there's 64 other players here doing the same thing? 63 others, sorry.”
“Almost everyone — 93% of shoppers — checks online reviews before buying anything!
Think about that… hardly anyone makes a decision without checking reviews first.”
Source: Get More 5-Star Reviews: Results Path to Getting Customer Reviews and Social Media Love (UGC) for Your Small Business
“Almost everyone admits to hunger during the Opera.... Hunger is so exalting that during a last act you practically levitate.”
Source: Collected Impressions
“Almost everyone agrees the world is not the way it ought to be. It's called the problem of evil.”
“Almost everyone, as almost always at such concerts, was white. It is something I can't help noticing; I notice it each time, and try to see past it. Part of that is a quick, complex series of negotiations: chiding myself for even seeing it, lamenting the reminders of how divided our life still remains, being annoyed that these thoughts can be counted on to pass through my mind at some point in the evening. Most of the people around me yesterday were middle-aged or old. I am used to it, but it never ceases to surprise me how easy it is to leave the hybridity of the city, and enter into all-white spaces, the homogeneity of which, as far as I can tell, causes no discomfort to the whites in them. The only thing odd, to some of them, is seeing me, young and black, in my seat or at the concession stand. At times, standing in line for the bathroom during intermission, I get looks that make me feel like Ota Benga, the Mbuti man who was put on display in the Monkey House at the Bronx Zoo in 1906. I weary of such thoughts, but I am habituated to them. But Mahler's music is not white, or black, not old or young, and whether it is even specifically human, rather than in accord with more universal vibrations, is open to question.”
Source: Open City
“Almost everyone believes that at some level birthmothers make a choice to give their babies away. ...Adoption is rarely about mothers' choices; it is, instead, about the abject choicelessness of some resourceless women.”
Source: Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States
“Almost everyone can describe the bottom of the mountain.”
“Almost everyone can do or be something for someone else in need.”
“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she put down thinking: I can do better than this. Hell, I am doing better than this! What could be more encouraging to the struggling writer than to realize his/her work is unquestionably better than that of someone who actually got paid for his/her stuff?”
Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft
“Almost everyone does just enough to get by. Those who achieve spectacular success also do enough to get by; then they add a little bit of extra effort. That little bit of extra effort makes an enormous difference.”
“Almost everyone has or will experience getting dumped in their lifetime. Unless, of course, you're a nun. Jesus can't dump nuns.”
“Almost everyone I meet is successful because of doing a lot of things right, and almost everyone I meet is successful in spite of some behavior that defies common sense.”
Source: What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful
“Almost everyone in heaven has someone on Earth they watch, a loved one, a friend or even a stranger who was once kind, who offered warm food or a bright smile when one of us had needed it. And when I wasn’t watching I could hear the others talking to those they loved on Earth: just as fruitlessly as me, I’m afraid. A one-sided card cajoling and coaching of the young, a one way loving and desiring of their mates, a single-sided card that could never get signed.”
“Almost everyone in politics nowadays has at least one conflict of interest.”
Source: Terror on Wall Street, a Financial Metafiction Novel
“Almost everyone is bald. And thats because of what they eat.”
“Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually; and almost everyone needs to.”
Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel
“Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That’s what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease.”
“Almost everyone is overconfident--except the people who are depressed, and they tend to be realists.”