Except Quotes
4383 Except quotes by 2703 unique authors
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I had been making films for almost ten years, and the head men at RKO thought of me only in terms of musicals. I found…
— Ginger Rogers
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The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should…
— Andy Rooney
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Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
— Richard Rorty
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I think one of the major differences between Wonder Woman and Jessica Jones is that Wonder Woman is iconic and much better known, so you…
— Melissa Rosenberg
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They usually have two tellers in my local bank, except when it's very busy, when they have one.
— Rita Rudner
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Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning.
— Donald Rumsfeld
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I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words.…
— Salman Rushdie
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One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew…
— Salman Rushdie
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First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but…
— Jerry Saltz
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I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists,…
— Jerry Saltz
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In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time…
— Jerry Saltz
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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
— Carl Sandburg
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I don't think American independent films have ever really been particularly experimental, except for the original guys from the '60s who were huge influences, like…
— Gus Van Sant
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The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
— George Santayana
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I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the…
— Jose Saramago
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real…
— Franz Schubert
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All my life, I never really felt comfortable anywhere in New York, except maybe in an apartment somewhere.
— Martin Scorsese
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Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will…
— Jerry Seinfeld
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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
— Bill Shankly
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An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
— George Bernard Shaw
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