#somewhat

I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#active life #after #beginning #capacity #century

The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation. ↗

— Leslie Charteris

#approaches #avoid #avoided #country #desire

In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#basically #business #called #carry #democrats

I think some of the things I deal with Hopper probably has dealt with also, since it's somewhat the same environment and I have pretty strong reactions to what this country looks like. It looks pretty dull and spare, and you like this and dislike it and it's very complicated. ↗

— Donald Judd

#complicated #country #deal #dealt #dislike

I didn't grow up in public life. I lived with my mother in Boston, not in Washington, DC, so I was somewhat sheltered from that. ↗

— Alexandra Kerry

#dc #grow #grow up #i #life

The greatest feeling of accomplishment for me is the fact that I was an athlete who was somewhat disabled. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#athlete #disabled #fact #feeling #greatest

I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic. ↗

— Chris Ware

#friends #i #i do #imagine #mom

If there's such a thing as somebody having nine lives, I guess I'm somewhat in that category. ↗

— Ron Rice

#guess #having #i #lives #nine

What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#could #different #entirely #had #happened

So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in. ↗

— Jim Bolger

#close #countries #heightened #i #i think