It is actually costlier to hire an immigrant. And yet the farm worker is almost invariably an immigrant. You can't pay an American to pick blueberries.
There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.
In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.
In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.
We observe that in the scriptures, fasting almost always is linked with prayer. Without prayer, fasting is not complete fasting; it's simply going hungry.
I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children.
I'm an actor; I have made my living by acting, and I almost think I owe it to the public to express my feelings and not as a character on a screen but as myself.
I noticed that almost everyone I went to college with has worked at something other than the subject they majored in. I guess that' s one of the reasons for campus unrest.
One of my main techniques for acting is I try to know almost nothing beyond the words that I have to say, because that's my zone of control.
I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.
Tennis players go into a press conference, and almost every one of them is the same. We do very little differently on a day-to-day basis.
In the past, proactive fiscal polices almost always meant just more investment and an increase in the fiscal deficit.
The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.
I almost never give interviews. It's not because I want to play hard to get. It's just that I never seem to have anything interesting to say.
I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.
When you cut a half-a-trillion dollars from the defense budget, it affects almost every area in the defense budget.
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
When I first came out to L.A., Hollywood's idea of a Latina was Mexican. It was almost like they had never seen or heard of an Afro-Latina before.
I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights.
