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I remember nearly having a fit of the giggles during the reading because dear Daniel was SO respectful and serious and I was finding the whole situation funny because I was speaking to his profile.
Madeleine Stowe
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Actress
Dear
Profile
Respectful
Nearly
Daniel
Finding
Giggles
Speaking
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I rode it once, which was up the driveway in the opening credits of the show. I didn't know how to stop it. I actually nearly killed the director of photography, and I smashed into the sound truck.
Henry Winkler
/
Actor
Directors
Driveway
Opening
Photography
Sound
Truck
Nearly
Credits
Rode
Smashed
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If you could taste words, most corporate websites, brochures, and sales materials would remind you of stale, soggy rice cakes: nearly calorie free, devoid of nutrition, and completely unsatisfying.
Jason Fried
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Entrepreneur
Corporate
Materials
Nutrition
Rice
Stale
Nearly
Cakes
Calorie
Devoid
Remind
Sales
Websites
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Every time one can write a self-deluded song, you are way ahead of the game, way ahead. Self-delusion is the basis of nearly all the great scenes in all the great plays, from 'Oedipus' to 'Hamlet.'
Stephen Sondheim
/
Composer
Self Delusion
Time Great Game
Ahead
Basis
Nearly
Hamlet
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Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards - a massive star.
Dwayne Johnson
/
Actor
Awards
Bollywood
Impressed
Massive
Multiple
Nearly
Talented
Earned
Meeting
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Because beauty will be so readily accessible, and skin color and features will be similar, prejudices based on physical features will be nearly eradicated. Prejudice will be socioeconomically based.
Tyra Banks
/
Television Personality
Color
Features
Prejudice
Skin Color
Accessible
Skin
Based
Nearly
Eradicated
Physical
Readily
Similar
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The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Republican forces, but nearly all had accepted the need for organization and order in civilian life.
Bill Alexander
/
Accepted
International
Organization
Brigade
Nearly
Civilian
Forces
Small Part
Volunteers
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The world has devolved into a much more hardened and lethal place since that devastating September morning when Islamists assassinated nearly 3,000 Americans in the worst terror attack on U.S. soil.
Pete Hoekstra
/
Former United States Representative
Hardened
Islamists
September
Soil
Terror
Attack
Nearly
Devastating
Lethal
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The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season.
Martin Van Buren
/
8Th U.s. President
Army
Employed
Establishment
Military
Past
States
Nearly
Carried
Effect
Organizing
Increasing
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I remember when 'Stranger Things' came out, if I had to watch one episode a week, I wouldn't have been nearly as into it as I was when I just sat there and watched the whole thing in, like, two days.
John Morrison
/
Professional Wrestler
Remember When
Sat
Stranger
Nearly
Watched
Episode
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The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.
Bob Woodward
/
Journalist
Cover Ups
Criminals
Interesting
Lied
Watergate
Understand
Nearly
Cover-Up
Criminal
Fact
Richard
Making
Nixon
Richard Nixon
Step
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It's nearly impossible to enforce actual consequences in video games at the moment, but at a table, sitting face-to-face across a tabletop game, or even playing at a LAN party, sportsmanship matters.
Wil Wheaton
/
Actor
Face To Face
Sportsmanship
Actual
Nearly
Enforce
Video Games
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Franklin D. Roosevelt was fortunate: He didn't take office until nearly four years after the Wall Street crash, by which time the Republicans' responsibility for the Depression was taken for granted.
Tina Brown
/
Journalist
Depression
Crash
Fortunate
Granted
Taken For Granted
Nearly
Republicans
Roosevelt
Wall Street
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A fly with a brain the size of a salt grain has the behavioral repertoire nearly as complex as a much larger animal such as a mouse. That's a super-interesting problem from an engineering perspective.
Michael Dickinson
/
Animal
Engineering
Grain
Perspective
Salt
Size
Behavioral
Nearly
Complex
Mouse
Repertoire
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For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of.
Catherine The Great
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Former Emperor Of All Russia
Allied
Aware
Sooner
Nearly
Farther
Tempt
Vastly
Whenever
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Still, the film nearly didn't happen a number of times. There were great arguments with United Artists about how to reduce the cost because they were nothing if not conscious of the price of the film.
John Schlesinger
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Film Director
Conscious
Cost
Film
Artists
Nearly
Number
Happen
Price
Reduce
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Parents and grandparents ought to understand the importance of making sure the next generation excels - and charter schools have proven extraordinarily successful nearly everywhere they've been tried.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
/
Charter
Charter Schools
Importance
Next
Next Generation
Ought
Proven
Successful
Everywhere
Understand
Sure
Nearly
Extraordinarily
Generation
Grandparents
Parents
Making
Schools
Tried
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A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.
Pam Brown
/
Poet
Hope
Cat
Conscience
Knees
Position
Your Better Will
Nearly
Better Your Will
Better Will Your
Hopes
Maintain
Minute
Settle
Upright
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The space station is the most unique laboratory we've ever built. The reason we have it is to do research on materials, people, medical matters, pharmaceuticals - the possibilities are nearly endless.
John Glenn
/
Former United States Senator
Medical
Endless
Laboratory
Materials
Research
Unique
Nearly
Possibilities
Space Station
Station
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As a black member of parliament and minister for nearly a decade, I was determined not to be defined by my race. I didn't want to be 'the black politician', when being black is just a part of who I am.
Sam Gyimah
/
Defined
Determined
Parliament
Nearly
Decade
Member
Minister
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Still, the change is nearly indescribable - going from total obscurity to walking down a street in New York and having everybody turn and look; to feel the temperature of a room change when I walked in.
Matt Damon
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Actor
New York
Indescribable
Looks
Obscurity
Temperature
Nearly
Total
Walked
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Prairie grassland once covered much of North America's midsection. European settlers turned nearly all of it into farms and ranches, and today the prairie landscape survives mainly in isolated reserves.
Stephen Kinzer
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Author
Covered
Farms
Isolated
Landscape
Prairie
Reserves
Settlers
Nearly
Mainly
Survives
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I was nearly 40 when I published my first book. I was a slow starter - or rather, I was slow to gather my work together, though I had published translations, mainly of the Italian poet Montale, by then.
Jonathan Galassi
/
Italian
Translations
Nearly
Gather
Mainly
Published
Slow
Starter
Work Together
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Poe was plagued and haunted most of all by something pretty banal: poverty. Probably the most eccentric decision in life was to become a writer in an age when making a living at it was nearly impossible.
Matthew Pearl
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Novelist
Eccentric
Making A Living
Banal
Nearly
Haunted
Poe
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The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.
Richard Dawkins
/
Ethologist
Justice
Mad
Staggering
Universe
Years
Words
After
Attempt
Billion
Nearly
Evolved
Fact
Literally
Some
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All, or nearly all, the advantage there is in fixing any constitutional limits to the power of a government, is simply to give notice to the government of the point at which it will meet with resistance.
Lysander Spooner
/
Philosopher
Government
Advantage
Fixing
Giving
Limits
Resistance
Power Government Will
Nearly
Constitutional
Simply
Meet
Notice
Point
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I was a very sickly boy when I was young; nearly died when I was 7. I had a life-threatening attack of meningitis, and that put me in a coma for a few months. It took me four years to get my memory back.
John Lydon
/
Singer-Songwriter
Died
Months
Attack
Nearly
Life-Threatening
Memory
Sickly
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Nearly one-fifth of our fellow citizens are Latino. They are families who are impacted by our education system, by our economy, by our healthcare delivery, and by every policy we make here in Washington.
Tony Cardenas
/
Delivery
Healthcare
Latino
Nearly
Fellow
Fellow Citizens
Impacted
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Just to cover the increase in fuel costs over the past two years, American would have had to raise fares nearly $75 per round-trip ticket. During this time period, our average fare increased by only $15.
Gerard Arpey
/
Average
Fuel
Nearly
Cover
Fare
Per
Raise
Ticket
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If the Islamic State is losing, if they are defeated in Iraq and Syria, or in Libya, which is maybe their most dangerous and most well-developed cell today, then they won't inspire nearly so many attacks.
Tom Cotton
/
United States Representative
Defeated
Inspire
Iraq
Islamic
Libya
Losing
Syria
Attacks
Nearly
Cell
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Not only was it nearly impossible to hear because of these huge rubber ears we had to wear, but we also had these huge furry hands which were absolutely useless, especially if you had to scratch yourself.
Helena Bonham Carter
/
Actress
Ears
Furry
Hands
Impossible
Rubber
Scratches
Nearly
Scratch
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I never have crushes, apart from my husband Michael, I guess, because I was obsessed with him, and I didn't speak to him for nearly a year. I kept going into the restaurant where he worked to look at him.
Pete Burns
/
Singer-Songwriter
Nearly
Crushes
Michael
Restaurant
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In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.
Carl Clinton Van Doren
/
Critic
Borders
Conquest
Cultivation
East
Mississippi
Nearly
Closer
Cooper
Main
Marked
Tendency
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I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.
Alexander Alekhine
/
Chess Player
Combination
Delusion
Long
Position
Unexpected
Work Always Me
Work Me Long
Work Always Long
Work Me Unexpected
Bad
Nearly
Eradicate
Conjure
Difficulties
Extricate
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The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Former National Security Advisor
Depression
Catastrophe
Greed
Recognition
Vulnerability
Nearly
Sudden
Systemic
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The game has kept faith with the public, maintaining its old admission price for nearly thirty years while other forms of entertainment have doubled and tripled in price. And it will probably never change.
Connie Mack
/
Admission
Entertainment
Maintaining
Thirty
Nearly
Forms
Price
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All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life.
Ernestine Rose
/
Abolitionist
Behalf
Elevation
Human Rights
Humble
Particular
Raised
Rights
Voice
All My Life
Nearly
Powers
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There are nearly 200 countries and a population of over 6 billion in today's world. International affairs should be addressed by all countries through consultations rather than monopolised by a few powers.
Li Peng
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Former Premier Of The People's Republic Of China
Country
International
International Affairs
Population
World
Affairs
Billion
Nearly
Powers
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In the United States, oil demand is projected to grow by 340,000 barrels per day this year and gasoline demand is projected to grow nearly two percent, averaging 9.3 million barrels per day for the summer.
Gary Miller
/
U.s. Representative
Barrels
Demand
Gasoline
Oil
Summer
Nearly
Per
Projected
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The trajectory of nearly all technology follows this downward and widening path: by the time a regular person is able to create his own TV network, it doesn't matter anymore that I have or am on a network.
David Shields
/
Author
Trajectory
Nearly
By The Time
Downward
Follows
Network
Regular Person
Widening
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The truth is that nearly everybody is right about some things and wrong about most things; and if a man's testimony is not to be taken until he is right on every subject, witnesses will be extremely scarce.
Robert Green Ingersoll
/
Lawyer
Scarce
Testimony
Truth Is
Nearly
Truth Man Will
Witnesses
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Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.
Abraham Verghese
/
Physician
Cancer
Fatalism
Modern Society
Counter
Nearly
Embracing
Possesses
Powers
Supernatural
Surrounding
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All of us are feeling scattered and distracted as we try to keep up with an accelerating world. But nearly all of us have an answer in our hands, in simply choosing to do nothing and go nowhere for a while.
Pico Iyer
/
Essayist
Accelerate
Distracted
Hands
Nowhere
Nearly
Choosing
Scattered
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My risk tolerance is higher than some people's, but it's not nearly as high as some people's. I don't want to exaggerate my bravado. I haven't been on the front lines. I haven't ever stepped on a land mine.
Andrew Solomon
/
Writer
Bravado
Tolerance
Nearly
Exaggerate
Front Lines
Stepped
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I think you grow through your experiences; you get better as you grow and I'm not nearly where I think I'm going to be eventually where I inspire to be and hopefully the opportunities will continue to come.
Nia Long
/
Actress
Opportunity
Inspire
Thinking
Nearly
Eventually
Experiences
Opportunities
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With nearly all students leaving public high school having taken some vocational education, this bill continues to provide communities with the funding necessary to give students an edge on career training.
John M. Mchugh
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Former United States Representative
Funding
Leaving
Bill
Nearly
Communities
Edge
Provide
Vocational
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I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.
Tom Stoppard
/
Playwright
Paper
Play
Trying
Worry
Apart
Nearly
Diary
Plays
Throw
Trace
Worrying
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It was sheer coincidence that 'Amaidhi Padai' had an open-ended climax. The idea for a sequel kept coming up, and I decided to act on it, nearly 20 years after the first film. It was not a planned decision.
Manivannan
/
Climax
Coincidence
Decided
Sheer
Nearly
Open-Ended
Planned
Sequel
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Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
Gary Wolf
/
Buyers
Categories
Checks
Credit
Credit Card
Fake
Numbers
Sellers
Share
Spam
Artists
Nearly
Card
Con
Entire
Paying
Rendered
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If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'
Eric Alterman
/
Historian
Average
Baseball
Food Chain
Income
Mets
Newspapers
Next Year
Pinnacle
Nearly
Chain
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