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In my 20 years in football, I was fortunate enough never to have experienced relegation. And while there is the pressure of expectations at the top of the league, at the bottom it comes in fear and trepidation, which is almost worse.
Gary Neville
Fear
Pressure
Enough
Top
Trepidation
Worse
Never
Football
Bottom
Almost
League
Years
Expectations
Experienced
Which
While
Fortunate
I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.
Gary Oldman
Lying
Almost
Terrible
Spy
Incapable
Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
Gary Ross
Family
You
Entertainment
Culture
Our
Take
Almost
Look
How
Discretionary
Very
Movies
Really
Your
Profitable
Necessary
Need
I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
Gary Ross
Love
Grace
Think
Chaplin
Never
Almost
Matched
Been
Just
Mean
Really
Elegance
I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when I'm looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.
Gary Shteyngart
Creative
Coffee
Looking
Nice
Out
Table
Window
Entirely
Couch
Write
Almost
Feel
New
Feet
Most
Bed
Up
York
New York
Views
Skyline
Coffee Table
The number of students participating in A.P. has more than doubled in 10 years, and today almost 15,000 U.S. schools offer A.P. courses.
Gaston Caperton
Today
More
Students
Almost
Participating
Schools
Courses
Years
Offer
Than
Number
I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life.
Gautam Gambhir
Life
Morning
Me
Bat
Nirvana
Takes
Almost
Whenever
Wherever
Afternoon
Ice
Evening
Desert
Away
Night
Stresses
It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.
Gavin Bryars
Work
You
Try
Will
Mistakes
Sense
Research
Out
Bad
Some
Some Things
Having
Invest
Fail
Almost
New
Like
Make
Makes
Scientific
Least
Laboratory
Department
Organisation
Things
I want almost no laws, I want the smallest government possible. I don't want anyone telling anyone what to do.
Gavin McInnes
Government
Possible
Telling
Laws
Smallest
Almost
Want
Anyone
I'll do almost anything for cake - even trample little children!
Gayle King
Cake
Almost
Almost Anything
Trample
Children
Anything
Little
Little Children
Even
Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that.
Gelsey Kirkland
You
Achievement
Struggle
Remember
Become
Striving
High
High Level
Paralyzed
Imperfect
Perfection
Almost
Idea
Reached
Very
Effort
Often
Just
Anything
Might
Hard
Level
You're told to look good and to show Tupperware, and that was my job. Coming from that to being, like, 'Oh my God, you're a superstar' - it's almost overnight, and it's overwhelming beyond belief.
Gena Lee Nolin
God
Good
You
Job
Overwhelming
Superstar
Almost
Like
Beyond
Look
Coming
Overnight
Oh
Oh My God
Being
Show
Belief
The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. 'Anchors aweigh!' Five, four, three, two, one... and we had ignition!
Gene Cernan
Music
Three
Seconds
Background
Anchors
Ten
Could
Had
Almost
Invisible
Reached
Hear
Stirring
Five
Four
Two
Many of the greatest composers and musicians do their best work in extreme confinement but we are seeing it in other fields - uses of technology to link people together in networks to solve problems and almost certainly we'll get better ideas than we would from them just doing it on their own.
Geoff Mulgan
Work
Best
Technology
Musicians
Together
People
Better
Problems
Own
Other
Extreme
Would
Solve
Best Work
Composers
Seeing
Networks
Almost
Ideas
Greatest
Doing
Link
Than
Get
Just
Confinement
Fields
Them
Certainly
Uses
Many
At a school in Massachusetts where I once worked, we managed early on through consensus. Which sounds wonderful, but it was just a very, very difficult way to sort of manage anything, because convincing everybody to do one particular thing, especially if it was hard, was almost impossible.
Geoffrey Canada
Wonderful
School
Impossible
Difficult
Everybody
Once
Way
Through
Almost
Particular
Massachusetts
Sort
Because
Sounds
Very
Manage
Just
Where
Anything
Which
Worked
Convincing
Hard
Thing
Early
Consensus
I die in almost every film I've been in.
Geoffrey Rush
Every
Almost
Been
Die
Film
With 'Call Me by Your Name,' they locked off the camera and let scenes play out in long, wide shots to make them feel almost voyeuristic.
Geoffrey Rush
Me
Long
Locked
Out
Scenes
Almost
Feel
Name
Make
Call
Camera
Off
Them
Shots
Your
Play
Wide
People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.
George Best
You
People
Say
Tell
People Say
Bottom
Almost
Rock
Hit
Gets
Dying
Seasonal changes, as it were, take place in history, when there is practically an almost universal death, a falling of the foliage of the tree of life. Such were the intervals between the ancient and mediaeval time, the mediaeval and the modern.
George Edward Woodberry
Life
Death
Time
History
Tree
Tree Of Life
Changes
Intervals
Ancient
Take
Almost
Between
Practically
Were
Falling
Modern
Place
Universal
Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.
George Gaylord Simpson
Complete
Unlikely
Recognize
Case
Almost
Almost All
Discovery
Any
Transition
I mention this fact as tending to support what I have often heard stated, namely, that a shark's sense of smell is so keen that, if men ever bathe in seas where they are found, a shark is almost sure to appear directly afterwards.
George Grey
Men
Smell
Sense
Bathe
Stated
Directly
Fact
Mention
Tending
Shark
Support
Almost
Namely
Sure
Heard
Often
Where
Afterwards
Appear
Keen
Seas
Found
Ever
It's almost as if creativity is dead. The visual power of advertising was everywhere - now it's basically gone.
George Lois
Creativity
Power
Gone
Everywhere
Visual
Almost
Dead
Advertising
Now
Basically
Stars are almost always people that want to make up for their own weaknesses by being loved by the public and I'm no exception to that.
George Michael
People
Own
Stars
Weaknesses
No Exception
Exception
Almost
Make
Make Up
Always
Up
Being
Want
Loved
Public
When I interviewed Paul Bremer in his office, he had almost no books on his shelves. He had a couple of management books, like 'Leadership' by Rudolph Giuliani. I didn't take it as an encouraging sign.
George Packer
Leadership
Management
Books
Sign
Take
Had
He
Almost
Like
Couple
Shelves
His
Encouraging
Office
Paul
Americans almost never elect presidents on the basis of foreign policy.
George Packer
Presidents
Never
Almost
Policy
Foreign
Foreign Policy
American
Elect
Basis
Last year, in the year 2008, it just became normal to watch great American institutions crumble, almost dissolve like sand.
George Packer
Great
Year
Great American
Dissolve
Crumble
Almost
Like
Institutions
Became
Normal
American
Just
Sand
Watch
Last
Last Year
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