 Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff. Author: Adrian Lyne
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| Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop. Author: Albert Ellis
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| How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception. Author: Alfred de Musset
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| It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline. Author: Alfred Jodl
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| Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception. Author: Amos Oz
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| In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded. Author: Amy Irving
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| A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side. Author: Andrew Coyle Bradley
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| You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern. Author: Ann Macbeth
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| Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity. Author: Antoine Rivarol
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| You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing. Author: Arnold Bax
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| Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture. Author: Arthur Erickson
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| Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost. Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
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| In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference. Author: Augusto Roa Bastos
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| All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common. Author: Barbara Walters
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| Due to the political nature of film, partisan film making, especially where the subject is close to the film makers hart, tend to be the norm, rather than the exception. Author: Ben Edwards
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| The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that. Author: Boris Spassky
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| The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance. Author: Bryan Miller
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| With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere. Author: C. S. Lewis
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| I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity. Author: Camille Paglia
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| Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses. Author: Cesare Lombroso
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| Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book. Author: Charles Kingsley
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| He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. Author: Charles Kingsley
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| Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy. Author: Charles Krauthammer
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| If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause. Author: Charles Morgan
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| There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule. Author: Charles Osgood
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| A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be. Author: Charles Sanders Peirce
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| 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. Author: Charles Schumer
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| No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right. Author: Charles Simmons
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| No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind. Author: Charles Sumner
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| The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice. Author: Charles W. Pickering
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| In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley. Author: Charley Pride
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| Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes. Author: Charley Reese
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| I was fine with everything except Maths. I was terrible at Maths. Author: Charlie Simpson
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| The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me. Author: Charlotte Gainsbourg
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| It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I had were also incorporated into the script. Author: Chiaki Kuriyama
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| Actually I consider myself a superficially normal looking person who has a vast collection of bizarre silly porn hidden in his basement, as all normal looking people do, and I'm keeping it hidden from everyone in the world except those few people with access to the Internet. Author: Chris A. Bridges
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| French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism. Author: Christian Lacroix
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| Think it is just a matter of... well look how long it took Shawn Colvin to reach the level that she has. Believe me, that girl has done everything except stand behind the cash register at Tower and take the money. Author: Christine Lavin
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| The other exception where we did not at all restore the place to its original condition is the Surrounded Islands. Before we installed our fabric, we had our workers remove 42 tons of garbage off the beaches of those islands. We never brought the garbage back. Author: Christo
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| We don't sell technical drawings except when they are incorporated into a drawing or a collage. Author: Christo
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| I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive. Author: Christopher Meloni
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| Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite. Author: Chuck Klosterman
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| Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. Author: Claude Bernard
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| Science does not permit exceptions. Author: Claude Bernard
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| Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help - because they grew as they served. Author: Clayton Christensen
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| There are so many exceptions to free speech: child pornography, cross burning, libel, fighting words. Author: Cliff Stearns
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| And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe. Author: Clifford D. Simak
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| If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. Author: Colin Powell
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| We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means. Author: Condoleezza Rice
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| The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters. Author: Constance Baker Motley
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| There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait. Author: Countee Cullen
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| Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it. Author: Cullen Hightower
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| With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys. Author: Curt Weldon
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| I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days. Author: Cyril Cusack
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| Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. Author: Dale Carnegie
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| 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. Author: Dale Carnegie
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| I'm a normal teen-ager except for my size. Author: Dana Hill
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| Oh see, first off you gotta realize - everything for me is a reconstruction or deconstruction. I would actually say deconstruction. Mission: Impossible would be the exception. That would be a reconstruction- deconstruction. Author: Danny Elfman
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| Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down. Author: Dave Barry
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| Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print. Author: Dave Barry
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| We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth. Author: Dave Barry
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| We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin. Author: Dave Barry
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| The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book? Author: David Attenborough
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| I believe without exception that theory follows practice. Whenever there is a conflict between theory and practice, theory is wrong. As far as I'm concerned, we make theories for what people have done. Author: David Baker
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| To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me. Author: David Bowie
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| Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone. Author: David Brooks
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| I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated. Author: David Duchovny
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| The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day. Author: David Eddings
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| I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians. Author: David Hume
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| The Homeland Security department doesn't have tasking authority in the intelligence community. They can ask for stuff, but they can't direct anything except inside their bureau. Author: David Hunt
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| And it should be the law: If you use the word "paradigm" without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions. Author: David Jones
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| I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ. Author: David Livingstone
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| Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns. Author: David Ogilvy
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| There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs. Author: David Ogilvy
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| Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race. Author: David Prowse
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| I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system. Author: David R. Brower
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| As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us. Author: David Rockefeller
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| Most Sunday magazines, with the New York Times as an exception, are kind of sleepy, weekend service vehicles to move living room products. Author: David Talbot
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| My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast. Author: Dean Koontz
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| Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. Author: Democritus
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| Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly. Author: Democritus
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| 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. Author: Dennis Miller
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| I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule. Author: Denzel Washington
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| I don't think he's permanently affected me except in the sense that I miss him. I miss being him. Or trying to be him. He is one of a gallery of characters that have had an impact on my career and therefore my life. Author: Derek Jacobi
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| It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night. Author: Derek Jacobi
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| Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any. Author: Desi Arnaz
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| 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. Author: Diana Krall
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| Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better. Author: Dick Cheney
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| But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script. Author: Dick Van Dyke
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| I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance. Author: Diogenes
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| 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. Author: Dirk Benedict
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| I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin. Author: Don Van Vliet
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| Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder. Author: Donald E. Westlake
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| What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear? Author: Donald Pleasence
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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. Author: Donald Rumsfeld
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| Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. Author: Donald Trump
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| Everyone except the far right wing of the Republican Party realizes that oil, gas and coal burning are the main activities that have sent the climate into bigger floods, droughts, hurricanes, and El Ninos. Author: Donella Meadows
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| I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories. Author: Donna Tartt
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| 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. Author: Dorothy Hamill
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| There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings. Author: Dorothy Thompson
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