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Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning.

The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did six songs together on this one.

The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.

I don't know Dr. Rosenberg. I have never met her, I have never spoken or corresponded with this woman. And to my knowledge, she is ignorant of my work and background except in the very broadest of terms.

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.

I never played the right roles, or very rarely got the right roles offered, except on stage.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

In the fashion world if you're successful, everyone loves you, and you have available every service. It's hard to walk away, except it wasn't hard for me. I had my mind completely made up.

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

I don't think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort - again, referring to Fox Broadcasting - to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television.

We don't have a state, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank. Gaza is under siege and the West Bank is occupied. What we have in the Gaza Strip is not a state, but rather a regime of an elected government. A Palestinian state will not be created at this time except in the territories of 1967.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?

The REM and Nirvana successes don't mean much to me except as a potential distraction for bands who want to cash in on the trend. Don't try to sound like someone else. REM and Nirvana don't sound like anyone else.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Everybody in this race is against Obama, okay? So saying you're against Obama, against Obamacare, all the rest, it's all fine, well and good, except it doesn't move you forward.

American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so.

Women were real box office stars in the '40s, more so than men. People loved to see women's films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system.

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body.

All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful.