#almost

When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#air #air conditioning #almost #also #appeared

To call something an 'enhanced interrogation technique' doesn't alter the fact that we thought it was torture when the Japanese used it on American prisoners, we thought it was torture when the North Koreans used it, we thought it was torture when the Soviets used it. You know, it's almost the moral equivalent of saying that rape is an enhanced seduction technique. ↗

— Ted Koppel

#alter #american #call #enhanced #equivalent

We thought we were going to go up against SNL on Saturday Nights - that would have changed things so much that it's almost impossible to speculate what might have happened. ↗

— David Wain

#almost #changed #go #going #happened

Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We've moved a long way from that, and that's important. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#anything #better #broadcasts #completely #controlling

You know, I hate to give advice because my life has been so odd that almost nothing that's happened to me can apply. ↗

— William Joyce

#almost #apply #because #been #give

Almost everything in 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson' has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone. ↗

— William Joyce

#basis #boyfriend #day #did #everything

It is almost impossible to imagine that any one could be so insensible to the high morality of Mr. Mill's character as to suggest to him any course of conduct that was not entirely upright and consistent. ↗

— Millicent Fawcett

#any #character #conduct #consistent #could

I almost didn't name Butt-Head 'Butt-Head.' I came real close to calling him something else. ↗

— Mike Judge

#calling #came #close #else #him

Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance. ↗

— Rick Kaplan

#almost #bow #defiance #statement #tie

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#form #geometric #i #kind #logic