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If you act like you know what you're going, you can do anything you want - except neurosurgery. — Sharon Stone
If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for… — Ben Stein
So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don't know… — Ben Stein
One can acquire everything in solitude except character. — Stendhal
I don't have time to have friends come and stay, except on weekends in Maine. I invite a lot of people to come to Maine. — Martha Stewart
I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck. — J. Michael Straczynski
I always feel comfortable, basically in any situation except perhaps airports. — Andre Leon Talley
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. — Jonathan Swift
I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Look at 'American Idol,' which I don't look at. Those winners haven't become household names except for Jennifer Hudson, and she was a reject. You… — Andre Leon Talley
Everything makes me nervous - except making films. — Elizabeth Taylor
Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies. — William Makepeace Thackeray
It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources. — Paul Theroux
Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was not a factor… — Paul Theroux
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to… — Henry David Thoreau
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful. — Gene Tierney
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they… — Alexis de Tocqueville
People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind. — Eckhart Tolle
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for… — Leo Tolstoy
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. — Donald Trump

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