Except Quotes
4383 quotes by 2703 authors
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There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
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I didn't aim at anything except good music.
— Waylon Jennings
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No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
— Samuel Johnson
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Only because The Runaways were my baby and there's no reason to get it back together except to totally have fun. If that's not the…
— Joan Jett
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Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more…
— Penn Jillette
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My coach, Liang Chow, had one rule while I was training for the 2008 Olympics: no skiing. I could do anything I wanted outside the…
— Shawn Johnson
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Sometimes people just want you to fail. Except your really good friends. I've always known who my best friends were.
— Kato Kaelin
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Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy…
— Daniel Kahneman
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I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.
— Elia Kazan
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With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have…
— Jack Kemp
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
— Jack Kerouac
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
— John Maynard Keynes
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I never wore glasses except when I had to read a teleprompter at an awards show or drive, so I didn't notice much. I could…
— Nicole Kidman
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My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees…
— Dean Koontz
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If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there…
— Rudyard Kipling
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Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy…
— Charles Krauthammer
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In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes that came from oil and gas…
— Mary Landrieu
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I appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There's nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared.
— Hedy Lamarr
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I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the secular level. And…
— Anne Lamott
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