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There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed.

For know that no one is free, except Zeus.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

A woman is a citizen who works for Mexico. We must not treat her differently from a man, except to honor her more.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.

Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex.

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

People's attitudes about sex aren't healthy anywhere, except maybe in those tribes where they go around naked.

Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft.

I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I think it's changed so that every bizarre story in the country now has a Florida connection. I don't know why, except it must be some inversion of magnetic poles or something.

You know, it was important for me to do something like that, because nobody ever really thought I could do anything except look sexy on a poster and go shopping.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.

I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

I've never had a message for anyone in my entire life. Except maybe to give out my room number.

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.

Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.

People aren't going to talk about it except me and that is communication and the visits I have personally had in our meetings with our store managers saying if you do these things you will be terminated, period.

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

We would get 20 different angles and then cut them all together. That's what I called it at the time - the 'cubistic' treatment of shooting football. It was the same thing Picasso did except we did it with a football play. It's taking a single image and looking at it from multiple perspectives.

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it's what you want to do and it's within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life.