#almost

Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#almost #became #drama #drifted #film

My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#anna #ben #daughter #son

You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public's faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a steep and dangerous decline for decades, because elected leaders fail to deliver. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#because #been #dangerous #decades #decline

Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so. ↗

— Adam Garcia

#becomes #families #granted #important #important things

When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, almost like Richard Pryor or something. You can be honest about your life and get laughs. ↗

— Artie Lange

#almost #could #get #got #honest

Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits into two parts. One of these grows rapidly, creating the human body of the individual with all its organs, and dies only with the individual. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#body #cell #created #creating #dies

If you drag your shoe a bit those plastic spikes or rubber spikes can be almost as bad as metal spikes. ↗

— Bernhard Langer

#bad #bit #drag #metal #plastic

Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#always #behaviour #beings #case #comes

The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#angola #any #badly #completely #illiterate

I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#dialogue #engaged #father #had #i