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4383 Except quotes by 2703 unique authors
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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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Every phase of our life belongs to us. The moon does not, except in appearance, lose her first thin, luminous curve, nor her silvery crescent,…
— Lucy Larcom
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Everything in nature has its own intrinsic charm, as the work of its Creator's hand; but the chief beauty of the whole lies in its…
— Lucy Larcom
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Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.
— Stephen Leacock
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Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he's always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he's important, the funny…
— Denis Leary
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Anybody who's done standup will tell you that there's nothing like it. The show starts at 8:00, the curtain goes up and there's nobody else…
— Denis Leary
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My kids watch everything downloaded; they have no idea what the numbers or the names of the channels mean, except, 'FX makes the show that…
— Denis Leary
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I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.
— Ang Lee
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I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew…
— Robert E. Lee
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I don't have many famous friends, really, except Simon Cowell.
— Leona Lewis
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What is Obamacare doing? It's destroying the only kind of plans people without insurance ever get. And nobody seems to be noticing except the people…
— Rush Limbaugh
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