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College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?

Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.

Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died.

In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

When they were small and my wife really had no other responsibilities, except taking care of the family and all of us, it wasn't that big a deal. It was fun. Hey, we're going to Moscow. We're going to Italy. We're going to Toronto. We're going to New York.

Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist.

While I filmed the 'Walker, Texas Ranger' series for eight and a half years, I had never had much time to read, except for screenplays of the episodes.

People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.

We held the team together for as long as possible and then sent all except the most critical personnel home.

The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.

A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.

I've always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience except a good performance.

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected.

As a person, I'm pretty much the same except that I've come to terms with who my real friends and supporters are. I don't get particularly friendly with new people at first go.

Rough Riders took 13 weeks to shoot, plus a week of training. The same guy trained us trained the cast in Platoon. Except, instead of radios, we used bugles to signal.

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.