We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new… — William James Copy Share Image
With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Watch out Mr. Bush! With the exception of economic policy and energy policy and social issues and tax policy and foreign policy… — Tom Toles Copy Share Image
If death were the exception and not the rule, and we were not so swiftly to follow, these separations would be intolerably… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
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With the exception of 'Descent,' that was a very conscious thing to make an action or horror movie that was an all-female… — Neil Marshall Copy Share Image
Hardly any filmmakers can just make anything they want. Obviously, there are some exceptions, like Steven Spielberg, but he has that mainstream… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
For my part, if I had the power I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period… — Ernest Newman Copy Share Image
I possess the greatest power ever bestowed upon mankind, the power of choice. Today, I choose to persist without exception. No longer… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The exceptions were two men a little ahead of them, standing just outside the Three Broomsticks. One was very tall and thin;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in details that might get someone into trouble. I'm more interested in generalities rather than the particulars, as a… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
My perception of the human animal is as an extremely dangerous predator. That's who I perceive us to be as a species.… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
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I wasn't into fairytales when I was little. I was of the generation of the earlier Disney films where many of the… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
But I find that for myself, without exception, the more I deal with the work as something that is my own, as… — Marian Bantjes Copy Share Image
Taxes will eventually become a voluntary process, with the possible exception of real estate-the one physical thing that does not move easily… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
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I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
'Dream Act' kids are like all other American kids, with the exception that they have to work harder to excel in school,… — Jeff Hawkins Copy Share Image
To ask people's permission to take their pictures? Sometimes it feels right to ask, but I will not ask, unless it is… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and does not carve out any exceptions… — Thomas Kean, Jr Copy Share Image
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Reforms to our complex and dysfunctional immigration system should not in any way favor those who came here illegally over the millions… — Mike Lee Copy Share Image
Freedom of mind and mind itself have been most fully developed in regions where trade developed at the same time. In all… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Girls like Diana Spencer, armed with nothing more than a guinea-pig-rearing certificate, proud to say in that old Sloane way that she… — Peter York Copy Share Image
Local television shows do not, in general, supply make-up artists. The exception to this is Los Angeles, an unusually generous city in… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The President has not created any Ford constituency, unique from that of any Republican President. The one exception to this is that… — Robert Teeter Copy Share Image
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
A man who cannot win fame in big own age will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. True,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I get really frustrated during a crisis when I go through all the cable channels and find - very often with the… — Howard Stringer Copy Share Image
I have always been a very passionate person. Some people are born with this fire burning inside to "do," or create, with… — Nikki Reed Copy Share Image
The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Obviously, I love Japanese food. My favorite TV show of all time, without exception, is 'Iron Chef.' Not the stupid American version;… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
The hard discipline, with the exception of one great good point, is fraught with evil. The good point is that men can… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
... there is an irrational, cultish tendency in many intellectual movements, and Objectivism, alas, is no exception. Ayn Rand's personal obsession with… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Shareholders are sort of like cats; they get herded around, and they follow the leader. With the exception of a few activist… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
