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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost Everything Quotes
How far a single phrase can stretch.
These quotes show how the phrase 'almost everything' captures huge shifts, in access to learning, in creative freedom, and in how far focus alone can carry someone. Browse our Life quotes collection.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are all born artists... Almost everything kids do is art.
- Perfection
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
- Discipline
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I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of myself as a fairly logical, scientific and somewhat reserved person. Maura Isles, the Boston medical examiner who appears in five of my books, is me. Almost everything I use in describing her, from her taste in wine to her biographical data, is taken from my own family. Except I don't have a serial killer as a mother!
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we experience is a meme. If I walk down the street and see a tree, the basic perception that's going on is not memetic.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always really loved clothes, although I am glad to say that my tastes have mellowed somewhat over the years. When I first played professionally and started to earn big money, almost everything I bought was by Versace.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been overwhelmed with a desire to become famous. It's not that I didn't want to have my work appreciated, but for some reason - maybe it's because my father disapproved of almost everything I did - in some secret place in my being was a desire to avoid success.
- Kitchen
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easy to discount water's importance in the kitchen. After all, it has no flavor, and more often than not, it's left off ingredient lists, making it seem like an afterthought. Yet water is an essential element of almost everything we cook and eat, and it affects the flavor and texture of all our food.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
The process is so much longer than the result for almost everything all of us are doing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poverty should be one of the top concerns for any elected leader. It has a negative effect on almost everything we as society entrust our government to do, but it seems that those in the Republican Party find it is more politically viable to fight a war on the people in poverty than it is to fight a war to end poverty in this country.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Revolutionary Guard controls almost everything in Iran, and this is hurting the people.
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'Girls,' I have been able to plug into almost everything I've felt that's personal and sensitive.
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- Nov 07, 2020