Except Quotes
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It's possible to be completely enlightened... except with your family.
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Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.
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All the major networks declared Barack Obama the winner at 11 last night, except for MSNBC, which declared Obama the winner six months ago.
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For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a damn about artists beyond their immediate utility. Good movements will use a writer just as ruthlessly as bad ones; since they all fancy they have better things to do than worry about one man's artistic survival.
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We remind ourselves that it's a hobby The Esemblist; nobody is setting these deadlines for us, except us.
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We can't hold on to anyone or anything, you know. We lose everything except that which we carry within us.
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I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative.
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You can't kill America. We're more than a nation. We're a notion. We're an idea. The American Dream. You never heard of the Afghanistani Dream have you. Except by bearded hermetic recluses with a fetish for uneducated women dressed as giant shuttlecocks.
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On Earth they've forgotten how to make everything except money. But what good is it, if there's nothing worthwhile left to buy?
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All I know is we're going into the All-Star beak on a positive note. But we haven't achieved anything. Nobody has done anything except gotten to the All-Star break.
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I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.
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You've got everything except one thing: madness! A man needs a little madness, or else...
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I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law.
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I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.
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I’m a very tolerant man, except when it comes to holding a grudge.
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I thought, can you think of any really good reason not to do it? Except that, oh, I'm so shy, or oh, my private life, or oh, are they going to find out how boring I am? You know? And that was the only reason now, in a sense, not to do television. Because it certainly is a method of expression, which has to be accepted as these things come along.
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You can't control what the other athlete is going to do; you can't control anything except for your competition and how you execute the race or how you execute the task.
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Everybody in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter.
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I'm not scared of animals, except for rats. I'll break down in tears if I see a rat!
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The issue with Ray is that he is really keen on making sure the little guy is not forgotten. I don't think he has a cause per se except serving his constituency, whether it is wooing businesses, cutting through red tape or helping someone who is down on their luck. He is really good at being there when he is needed.
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As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.
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Myrnin: "There is no drama so great as that of a teenage girl." Claire: "Except yours.
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It just doesn’t make any sense to do anything except what is exciting for you right now.
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No one can keep you down except yourself.
