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My husband is such a healthy eater. Except when it comes to sweets. He never consumes anything except fruit until noon. And then from noon on he might have some brown rice and some tofu, and then, come eight or nine at night, he orders three mud-pie double-chocolate pieces of cake and eats all three of them.

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.

I promised to have no partisan affiliation and no subsidy except advertising.

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 Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, and Stan van der Beek. They were the true independents.

But you're never taught in schools - we don't teach anyone in public schools that government is the problem. We don't teach anyone in college that government is the problem - except maybe a handful of sort of unique, conservative schools. But mainstream media never talks as if government is the problem.

You can put anything into words, except your own life.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly... or like somebody's mother.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

Today's society will ignore almost any form of public behavior except getting in the express line with two extra items.

I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.

We are better than anyone, ain't we? Except for the Eagles, the Eagles are better than us.

Here are also the two vessels, but the San Carlos without sailors, all having died of the scurvy, except two.

Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Late night is no different than making a film, really, except that it's faster, and if you do a crap one, you can do a better one tomorrow. Writing a novel and doing stand-up - that stuff is very similar.

I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world.

I'm not really afraid of the dark, except if I'm walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip.

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 tobacco, while my army is starving.

Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body.

All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful.

I can't explain 9/11, except the evil of man.

I've been been on the cover of TV Guide, on every single talk and entertainment show except Letterman. It's interesting being older and dealing with this kind of success. I'm more appreciative of it now, and I don't take it for granted.

There is nothing permanent except change.

I usually stick out my hand and hope he puts the ball in it. Except the one time I went out to take Early Wynn out. I stuck out my hand and he hit me right in the stomach with the ball.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

It would be great some day to have astronauts in a rover on Mars. But just about anyone except an oil company executive would say its more important to have 50 million solar powered vehicles in the United States.

I'm a normal teen-ager except for my size.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.