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My husband believed that all women who want to should be free, equal, independent, creative, well informed, and lead stimulating, interesting lives. Except me. — Lucille Kallen
With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species. — Anthony Storr
I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India. — Trevor McDonald
I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory. — Mahmoud Darwish
All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro,… — Ethel Lynn Beers
Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science. — Alan Lightman
I don't buy art. I'd rather buy a beautiful location or a beautiful site than buy art. A beautiful home is like owning a beautiful… — Millard Drexler
There's nobody who doesn't have problems with the church, because there's sin in the church. But there's no other place to be a Christian except… — Eugene H. Peterson
I run; I am a coward at heart. I swear, when I smell violence or aggression the coward comes out in me. I have no… — Rutger Hauer
The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters. — Constance Baker Motley
Man is the individualised expression or reflection of God imaged forth and made manifest in bodily form. How is it, then, I hear it asked,… — Ralph Waldo Trine
If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipline… — Margaret Halsey
I was a momma's boy. I didn't get anything from Dad, except my body and baseball knowledge. The only time I spent with him was… — Barry Bonds
God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself. — Norman Angell
Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly. — Alan Dean Foster
The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one… — Gary Zukav
If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get… — David Frum
Wars--and what is war except crime on a mass scale?--destroy rather than produce. The vandal that destroys a window causes not only the owner to… — Adam Young
French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism. — Christian Lacroix
Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college. — Dave Eggers

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