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After nearly 15 minutes of soul searching, I have heard the call. Nation, I will seek the office of the president of the United States.…
— Stephen Colbert
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I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.
— Rosie O'Donnell
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As a result of the [9/11] attack and the killing of nearly 3,000 innocent people, we invaded two countries and killed innocent people in their…
— Rosie O'Donnell
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Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they are remarkably unchanged…
— George Will
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I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers,…
— Shelby Foote
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Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun.
— Brian Eno
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I went to Clive Davis' Grammy party and I nearly spontaneously combusted because everyone on my iPod was there!
— Leona Lewis
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Nearly every problem has been solved by someone, somewhere. The challenge of the 21st century is to find out what works and scale it up.
— William J. Clinton
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I've nearly walked off very big films before, and I would, because I don't want that in my life. I want to enjoy the work…
— Gemma Arterton
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.
— Francesca Annis
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That's the funny thing about life. We're rarely aware of the bullets we dodge. The just-misses. The almost-never-happeneds. We spend so much time worrying about…
— Lauren Miller
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What I observed in western Azerbaijan, among the small portion of the nearly one million Azerbaijanis who were displaced by the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh two…
— Ed Kashi
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Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily…
— Chaka Fattah
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I eat whatever I like, but I play tennis and run nearly every day.
— Unknown Author
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I hover over the expensive Scotch and then the Armagnac, but finally settle on a glass of rich red claret. I put it near my…
— Nick Harkaway
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At times, my nostalgia for our family life as it used to be--for our own imperfect, cherished, irretrievable past--is nearly overwhelming.
— Katrina Kenison
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What you did is not nearly as important as what you are going to do.
— Tyler Shields
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When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and…
— Peter Straub
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Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.
— Arabella Weir
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There's no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead.
— George W. Bush
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"Godling? Demigod?" Lysis nearly howled. "You'd be beaten black and blue in Thebes, and staked out overnight for claims like that. In Sparta, the secret…
— Janet Morris
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A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd…
— Benjamin Franklin
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The physical signs of measles are nearly the same as those of smallpox, but nausea and inflammation is more severe, though the pains in the…
— Avicenna
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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…
— Eric Alterman
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I've never been more in love with anyone nearly half my age than I am today. I'd get married in a minute if I weren't…
— Rod Stewart
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