#almost

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#america #ancestry #black #brazil #drop

No baby boomer has a completely original idea, but after 13 years on 'Today' and another 11 on 'Dateline,' almost 30 years total at NBC, I felt the urge to find out what was 'behind the camera.' I had the feeling there was 'something more,' though 'more' might be less. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#almost #another #baby #behind #boomer

Well you know, it's true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number of other things. But guess what? The amount of that risk is almost infinitessimal! ↗

— Daniel Pinkwater

#amount #diabetes #disease #fat #greater

Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it. ↗

— Daniel Pinkwater

#i #i do #same #telling #way

I love fresh flowers for my home. I spend far too much money on them, buying them almost every day. ↗

— Billie Piper

#buying #day #every #every day #far

All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words. ↗

— Bernard Pivot

#difficulties #english #gender #speakers #words

I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#ancestors #been #both #business #come

Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate. ↗

— Iggy Pop

#always #because #estate #garden #i

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#artist #chaos #confusion #disparate #frame

Someone called all the newspapers in New York and told them I'd died. I've been told by almost everyone it was an ex-wife - I've had a few so it's hard to pinpoint which one - but who knows for sure? ↗

— Richard Pryor

#been #called #died #everyone #ex-wife