#except

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best. ↗

— Bernard Meltzer

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Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#compose #except #had #helped #himself

I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation. ↗

— James A. Michener

#concern #crucial #does #else #except

Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft. ↗

— Billy Mitchell

#attack #except #nothing #other #stop

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#except #had #i #movement #rights

Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished. ↗

— Randy Neugebauer

#civilizations #defined #did #exceptions #few

I've never been shocked by anything on television, except the news. ↗

— Justin Theroux

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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. ↗

— Amos Oz

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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. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

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Grissom is pretty asexual. He's not that interested in anything other than work - except for Lady Heather. She's the closest to getting his heart of anyone. ↗

— William Petersen

#anything #closest #except #getting #grissom