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I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn't have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy.

I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too.

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.

Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

'Blind Curve,' the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I was pulled out of my car for a minor traffic violation - an incident that escalated into my being thrown into cuffs and told I was going to jail. Except in my story, the hero doesn't get off as easily as I did.

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

I've done all of them except for Oprah. My shoes were on Oprah but they ran out of time so I wasn't on. I left my shoes in Chicago so they could put them on the show.

My parents thought all actors were secretly drug addicts, except for Clint Eastwood, whom they admired. But they thought it was very unlikely that I would ever be Clint Eastwood.

I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.

Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

I have been an actor for most of my life. When I started out, I didn't think about anything except what was good for me. Like many movie stars, I became all wrapped up in myself.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.

When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.

Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.

Only because The Runaways were my baby and there's no reason to get it back together except to totally have fun. If that's not the goal, then I don't want to do it.

Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy wherever he meets him, particularly if he meets hostile cavalry.

Boxers, man, except when I have to get dressed up. Then it's boxer-briefs. But never tighty-whities. Never. But dude! If they brought back Underoos? Dude, if they brought back Underoos, I would rock the Underoos. Like He-Man and Transformers and G.I. Joe and even like Dukes of Hazzard.

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.

I didn't really work with Vin on it except we talked about it a little bit. I think it was kind of cool because we didn't think it was going to be that emotional. I don't think Vin knew I was going to be that emotional.

Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.