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

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.

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it human and otherwise are imaginary excepting only certain of the fairy folk whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

No theory is good unless it permits not rest but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having except as a result of hard work.

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.

It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact in every presidential election since 1950 - except Goldwater in '64 - the Republican would have won if only the men had voted.

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.

When I auditioned for 'Wedding Crashers ' the producers had never seen any of my other work except for Bond. I got 'Wedding Crashers' partly because I was a Bond girl.

All weddings except those with shotguns in evidence are wonderful.

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.

People say you favor assassination what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale a much more horrific scale.

I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.

With the end of the cold war all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism Nazism Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.

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.

We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism and they don't want to fight it. They would except that it would put them on the same side as the United States.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything including war except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

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

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.