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Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.

I promised to have no partisan affiliation and no subsidy except advertising.

I don't think American independent films have ever really been particularly experimental, except for the original guys from the '60s who were huge influences, like Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, and Stan van der Beek. They were the true independents.

But you're never taught in schools - we don't teach anyone in public schools that government is the problem. We don't teach anyone in college that government is the problem - except maybe a handful of sort of unique, conservative schools. But mainstream media never talks as if government is the problem.

You can put anything into words, except your own life.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly... or like somebody's mother.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

Today's society will ignore almost any form of public behavior except getting in the express line with two extra items.

I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.

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.

I can't explain 9/11, except the evil of man.

I've been been on the cover of TV Guide, on every single talk and entertainment show except Letterman. It's interesting being older and dealing with this kind of success. I'm more appreciative of it now, and I don't take it for granted.

There is nothing permanent except change.

I usually stick out my hand and hope he puts the ball in it. Except the one time I went out to take Early Wynn out. I stuck out my hand and he hit me right in the stomach with the ball.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

It would be great some day to have astronauts in a rover on Mars. But just about anyone except an oil company executive would say its more important to have 50 million solar powered vehicles in the United States.

I'm a normal teen-ager except for my size.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.