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Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told.

Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder.

There is no evidence of any kind except that is directed toward Oswald.

I didn't aim at anything except good music.

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics.

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

Sometimes I don't even pull my shoes off for six weeks at a time, except, you know, just to take a shower. I just take breaks between 24 hours a day, just a break now and then, it don't take me long to rest; maybe 20 to30 minutes sometime, or maybe an hour.

Everybody has a heart. Except some people.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I'll be competing with billions of actors who haven't got false teeth, and who are 25.

I don't think the NFL had the slightest intention of taking me, except as maybe a water boy.

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after patterns that the world or my fellows set for me.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black.

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them.

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.

People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.

In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit.

To my fellow nominees, whoever they are - I'm not that familiar with their work - I just want to say, there's always next year - except, you know, for Ray Romano .

I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.

In baseball you train the whole body, except for the hip and eyes.