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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.

The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit.

We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.

The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.

We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.

There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.

Nothing exists except through language.

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of going against the grain to begin with, wanting to do that, don't you think? Why else would you do it? Except maybe as kind of a way to affirm your very existence.

It's weird, I never wish anything bad upon anybody, except two or three old girlfriends.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.