#mos

Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language. ↗

— Christopher Walken

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This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#almost #anonymity #because #continued #dreaded

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.' ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#after #almost #enough #hearing #i

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#building #children #consists #content #decorating

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#bookshelves #building #children #consists #content

And I don't have to listen to a sermon to know what to think or feel about them. It's almost as if I absorbed completely what mattered most to me, and the rest could go. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#almost #completely #could #feel #go

Some people are born gardeners, some are politicians. I was an actor. It took a great deal of pain before I figured that out. I didn't relate to most of it. ↗

— Kathleen Quinlan

#before #born #deal #figured #gardeners

Really, most of us just focus on what's in front of us. We're too busy putting out the fires of everyday life. ↗

— Aidan Quinn

#everyday #everyday life #fires #focus #front

Stand-up is live, so I'm used to being live for most of my career. It's interesting. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#career #i #interesting #live #most

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#afghanistan #alone #because #empires #feel