- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost Nothing Quotes
What's left unsaid, unspent, or untouched by daily life.
These almost nothing quotes range from someone drawing a line around their private life despite public scrutiny to a reflection on how little of one unusual career path could apply to anyone else's advice. Our Good quotes cover more honest, grounded reflections.
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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I hate to give advice because my life has been so odd that almost nothing that's happened to me can apply.
- Fruit
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first job out of college was six weeks of picking fruit alongside a dozen or so men from Mexico. The orchard was in Emmett, Idaho. The men spent almost nothing on themselves. Their paychecks went directly to their families back home.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's almost nothing that hasn't been said about me. But there's an awful lot that I haven't said. I don't talk about private things.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's almost nothing that distracts you from your day-to-day problems more than a trip. You're totally consumed in the present, you've got new sense impressions, you've got all this stuff to digest.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had almost nothing published until I had something published in 'Sports Illustrated.' I started there as a fact-checker two weeks after I got out of college and was there for almost 20 years.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The number of jobs created under President Barack Obama's stimulus turned out to be fewer than the number we would have had if the government had done nothing - according to the Obama administration's own analysis. So we got $9 trillion of debt with almost nothing to pay for it.
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shaped like Texas, but twice as big, Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world. It exports almost nothing - mostly just cotton, gold and livestock - and doesn't have enough money to import much of anything, either.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like digging around. I'm a real magpie. I used to raid the old music shops in the early '50s in Paris and Brussels. You could pick up some incredible and often valuable music for almost nothing back then.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all know the power of film; we all know there's almost nothing more powerful than to see people on film that look and talk like you, like we do.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, more then ever, we have the ability to make films for almost nothing and that's broken down all barriers of entry. I think it's a new golden age of film-making. With that, there needs to be the ability to recoup investment dollars, people need to make money.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Buy a $100 U.S. bond and frame it to teach your children about inflation by watching the U.S. bond value diminish to almost nothing over the next 20 years.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020