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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.

What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.

For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes that came from oil and gas off of our coast that went to the federal Treasury, to rebuild all places in America except the place that it came from.

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

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.

Mess is fairly good. It is like what is found in American hotels except for cake and pie.

It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me.

If you act like you know what you're going, you can do anything you want - except neurosurgery.

I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India.

The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra.

So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don't know anyone except my wife who isn't a big time sinner.

Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly.