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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Calling on each molecule one by one? No way. I just told all of them to be quiet - except for a selected few.
Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.
It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!
I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.
I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
People's attitudes about sex aren't healthy anywhere, except maybe in those tribes where they go around naked.
Except for teachers, who are 'controlled' as far as his militancy is concerned, good jobs are rare for Negroes.
I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.
After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
The best way to eat is to eat lots of different kinds of foods. Except for breast milk, no one food is perfect.
People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans.
Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.
To give a good interview, I often found it's a bit like acting, except it's yourself, so you have to be yourself.
Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that's why people gravitate to that so much.
The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
When I moved to Atlanta, I felt like an outsider - away from my friends and family except for the LGBTQ community.
I love every character in the DC universe, except for Rampage. Rampage is a She-Hulk rip-off, and I like She-Hulk.
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
I've wrestled on every continent but Antarctica and in every country in the world except for China and the U.S.S.R.
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.
I have no one at my side except God and His angels. I pray to God that He will turn my enemies into pillars of salt.
There is really nothing more to say - except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
'Back to Blood' really took it out of me. While I was writing it, I just never went out anywhere, except to the gym.
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career, except for when I've worked with the Coen brothers.
Every firing happens differently except in this one respect: the person being fired can't believe how fast it happens.
All the family money is for philanthropy, except for living expenses for my mother. She is 94 and isn't a big spender.
I have to tell you, I'm a great teacher. Ask anybody who worked for me, except some secretaries who weren't very good.
Dollar bills have absolutely no value except in our collective imagination, but everybody believes in the dollar bill.
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way.
I hope people don't know what to expect from us, except for something better than before. We want to be unpredictable.
In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.
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.
In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.