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My hope lies with people who never go to Washington except to see the monuments.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

When I'm on stage by myself, I don't have to think about anything. I don't have to worry about anything because I'm not responsible for anything except just opening my mouth and making sure music comes out.

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

The actors are in control, getting outrageous amounts of money. The reason they're getting this kind of money is because the studios don't know what else to do. They don't have a clue about what to do except to pay an actor a lot of money.

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.

No battle is worth fighting except the last one.

So I had the opportunity to do what the kids in the Hershey program do, except that the Hershey program lets them do it on such a larger scale, with the regional and national competitions.

The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.

Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.

These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

Grissom is pretty asexual. He's not that interested in anything other than work - except for Lady Heather. She's the closest to getting his heart of anyone.

Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.

I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.

I can honestly say this industry hasn't made me neurotic about my looks, except maybe my weight. I hope my clothes kind of reflect that. They're meant to make you feel good.

The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel.

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 grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.

I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we didn't get paid for it like they did.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.