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I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them.

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.

Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.

Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.

Well let's see; I'm not obsessed with... I like Walt Disney except that you know, except for the horrible fascism. I love the art of it. I like a lot of things I don't agree with and that's one of them.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

When I started walking and I looked down and I saw on the floor this water, which looked like, you know, water in your basement except it happened to be in the auxiliary building of a nuclear power plant.

No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.

God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed our dog, we don't have a care in the world.

No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.

Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life.

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

Elvis couldn't leave the hotel except under heavy guard. It was incredible how they went wild over him.

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

If you think about my filmography, I have never done a movie that a kid could go see, except for 'Iron Giant,' and I'm not even on the screen.

Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.

I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.

Most people don't know that I am an accomplished dramatic actor... But I've performed in several Shakespeare productions including Hamlet, except in this version, Hamlet lives in an apartment with two women, and has to pretend he's gay so that the landlord won't evict him.

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.

I don't really think they saw anything in me, except the fact that I was interested in it. Some of the kids would miss a week here and miss a week there, I think they could see that I really enjoyed it.

I'll play first, third, left. I'll play anywhere - except Philadelphia.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.