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“I have seen a lot of men, for example, who will make a will and include their daughters whether they are married or not. And perhaps the greatest change of attitude is that today, at least in Kenya, if you don't send your child to school - unless it's a matter of poverty or religion, and it is not that there no schools - then people wonder, "why the hell don't you send your children to school?" Now that's a very big jump from when I was going to school and educating girls was an exception to the rule.”

People Ifs Men Children Matter Bigs Today School Girl Attitude Wonder Poverty Hell Example Married Daughter Our Children Your Children Exception Kenya Exception To The Rule

Author:Wangari Maathai

“When you ban people from predominantly Muslim countries from coming into the U.S., even people who accompanied our soldiers and helped them on the battlefield, but you say, "But, of course, there's gonna be an exception if you're a religious minority," - OK, so that means Christians, there will be a different rule applied to Christians from these countries than others - that's a religious test. And that is completely contrary to our national traditions.”

People Ifs Mean Different Country Christian Courses Religious Tradition Tests Soldier Contrary Minorities Exception Battlefields Bans

Author:Tim Kaine

“I always write the lyrics first. There are one or two exceptions over the years, but that's pretty much the way it's been. The process of applying music to words is a bit like scoring a film. You've got imagery.”

Way Writing Years Firsts Two Film Bits Process Exception Imagery

Author:Bruce Cockburn

“When we remember presidents who didn't fulfill their promises - for instance George H.W. Bush saying no new taxes or Barack Obama saying he would close the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay - we remember those because they're the exceptions, not the rule.”

Remember President Promise Taxes Instance Barack Exception Facility Saying No Detention Guantanamo Guantanamo Bay George H W Bush

Author:Evan Osnos

“Almost without exception, members of great groups see themselves as winning underdogs, as a feisty David hurling fresh ideas at a big, backward-looking Goliath. They always have an "enemy."”

Ideas Bigs Winning Enemy Groups Members Exception Underdog Goliath Hurling Feisty Fresh Ideas

Author:Warren G. Bennis

“There are some cases that have come to my attention where there's been a head injury, or getting struck by lightning and surviving, with really no disability or residual. So there are cases that I'm aware of where there's been some incident which triggered the acquired savant ability, but is not associated with long term disability, so that can occur. But I think that's probably the exception rather than the rule in that I think many of the acquired savants do end up with some residual disability.”

Thinking Long Ends Term Ability Attention Cases Long Term Injury Exception Disability Lightning Surviving Incidents Residual Savants Head Injuries

Author:Darold Treffert

“With a few exceptions like Kraftwerk, most great 20th century Western music is in some way American-based. And the great paradox of America, the paradox that distills America, is that this greatest of American contributions to humanity, this American contribution that probably has influenced more people around the world for the good, that probably has brought more people around the world unqualified joy, was born of America's greatest evil, slavery. Or one of the two great evils anyway, counting the European extinction of those who were on the continent first.”

“I'm not interested in details that might get someone into trouble. I'm more interested in generalities rather than the particulars, as a journalist would be. Names, dates and times don't interest me at all. I'm interested in feelings and emotions. Most people are game, once they realize that you're on the level as far as that's concerned and you're not about exposing them, then they feel quite free to talk about it. Police officers and social workers are no exception.”

“Keep in mind that every single generation before us has worked under the assumption that they possessed all the major tools for understanding the universe, and they were all wrong, without exception.”

Mind Universe Understanding Generations Majors Tools Assumption Exception Possessed Understanding The Universe

Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

“Latin America is all moving to the left, from Venezuela to Argentina with rare exceptions, but there's a good left and a bad left.”

America Moving Left Exception Latin Latin America Argentina Venezuela

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Let's take Southeast Asia. The last 20, 30 years has been what's called the "Asian Miracle" - fast economic growth, industrial society. It's happening all over, with one exception, which one? The Philippines is the one that can't grow, which the US has been running for 100 years. Is there a correlation? Have you read about it? It comes to mind, at least.”

Years Mind Has Beens Running Lasts Grows Growth Economic Happenings Miracle Exception Asia Asian Economic Growth Philippines Correlation Southeast Asia

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Losing someone we love, or the fear of losing someone we love one day is a difficult experience and we can all relate to it. None of us are an exception to this reality.”

Reality Difficult One Day Losing Relate Exception Losing Someone Difficult Experiences

Author:Aamir Khan

“In the United States there are only two exceptions: banks have to report deposits they suspect to be related to either terrorism or drug trafficking. But if your funds derive from trafficking women and children for sexual exploitation, for example, or from illegal arms trafficking or any other illegal activity, then banks in the US are legally free to accept your money and are not required to report your deposit to the authorities.”

“Cumulatively, American society is sliding toward a new form of 'authoritarian democracy'. Elections continue, free speech is generally protected, institutions operate in accordance with the Constitution, but the reality of state - society relations is dramatically altered by the counter-terrorist claims of emergency rule and the right of exception.”

States Reality Form Democracy Speech Constitution Claims Relation Election Institutions Terrorist Exception Protected Free Speech Emergencies Altered American Society

Author:Richard A. Falk

“There is no religion in the world where there is a possibility of spiritual development outside of the context of that religion. This is only a modern invention. For example, Christian mystics were also Christians. They also went to Church and followed Christian laws. Hindu mystics were practicing Hindus; they didn't kill cows and have steak. They follow the Hindu laws and so on and so forth down the line and Sufism is no exception.”

World Christian Spiritual Law Church Lines Modern Example Possibility Development Invention Exception Cows Sufism Steak Spiritual Development

Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“Pretty fortunate that with the exception of two months when I was 23, that I worked in a law office pushing paper around. I was always able to eke out a living somehow. So I'm blessed.”

Two Able Law Months Office Paper Blessed Fortunate Exception Pushing Two Months

Author:Jon Gordon

“There are some exceptions: Chicago, my hometown, in particular. But overall in the country this is a much safer place than it used to be.”

Country Used Particular Used To Be Exception Chicago Hometown

Author:Barack Obama

“At our church I do not endorse politicians publicly. Because I am afraid that if I endorse one candidate, it would keep somebody from coming to our church. So I made one exception one time to put one bumper sticker on my car, but I don't ever do it anymore.”

Ifs Made Church Car Politician Candidates Exception One Time Bumper Sticker Bumper Sticker

Author:Max Lucado

“Most of intellectuals are false prophets, flatterers of the court. The real prophets are the exception and treated badly. How badly they're treated depends on the society. Like in Eastern Europe, they were treated very badly. In Latin America, they were slaughtered.”

Real America Depends Europe Court Treated Prophet Exception Latin Eastern Latin America Eastern Europe Flatterer False Prophets

Author:Noam Chomsky

“You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.”

Men Humorous Exception Serving Great Leader Funny Thanksgiving

Author:Victor Kiam

“In terms of column writing, with the exception of one or two others, I am probably paid as well as you can be as a journalist. I attribute some of this success to my ability to haggle. The main thing in this game is to ask for money and when they tell you the amount you say, "no, I want more".”

Want Writing Wells Two Asks Games Term Ability Amount Paid Journalist Exception Attributes Columns

Author:Giles Coren

“Many people just won't connect the social problems with the history of dispossession of the aboriginals. There is one problem with pro-Palestinian activists in Europe and the U.S. with the way they portray Israel as though it were an island of evil in an ocean of goodwill. Unfortunately we are not. This world is not made of benign, progressive states with Israel as the one exception.”

People World Way Made States Problem Evil Social This World Ocean Europe Israel Islands Exception Progressive Activist Palestinian Goodwill Benign Aboriginal Social Problems

Author:Amira Hass

“Trump doesn't have one establishment, maybe with the exception of the Evangelicals, if you can call them an establishment, but banks, intelligence agencies, arms companies, big foreign money, are all united behind Hillary Clinton, and the media as well, media owners and even journalists themselves.”

Ifs Wells Bigs United Behinds Company Media Arms Trump Clinton Journalist Agency Exception Owners Establishment Intelligence Agencies

Author:Julian Assange

“Comedy really is my bread and butter, even when I'm doing a serious character, with the exception of Outcast. I have found very little humor in this character. Most of the time, what I do, somewhere there is comedy in it.”

Character Comedy Serious Exception Outcast

Author:Brent Spiner

“There is no other industry that is more self-congratulatory and self-delusional than journalism. Well, maybe with the exception of Hollywood.”

Journalism Exception

Author:Michelle Malkin

“In some ways, it's easier to go from short form to long form than vice versa. I used to make 30 second 'movies,' and I think if I only did long form I would find it difficult to adjust to that short a length. 'I gotta say something in 30 seconds. Forget about it!' There have been directors who have done commercials over the years, but they seem to be the exception.”

Thinking Long Done Difficult Forget Exception

Author:Joe Sedelmaier

“The English monarchy is at best symbolic, whereas the Saudi monarchy is a bloodline, but it's also showing itself as a very primitive culture. So, I think we're moving further and further away from that kind of organization of humanity and the same I would say with religion. I think that organized religions, with the exception of Islam, are really falling by the wayside. People are starting to understand that the religious potential is within and that it's an individual pursuit.”

People Thinking Kind Moving Humanity Fall Culture Individual Religious Islam Exception Primitive Monarchy Organized Religion

Author:James Wasserman

“We run all kinds of ads, as long as they are clearly marked as advertising when there's ever a question. I think advertising is advertising. If it's 100 percent clear what it is, then, with certain exceptions, I can live with that.”

Thinking Kind Long Running All Kinds Advertising Exception

Author:David Remnick

“Young people have traditionally skewed left through generation after generation after generation. Exceptions to that, of course. I am one. I never have been a liberal. I rebelled against my parents, but not that way. Never been a liberal. Constitutionally incapable of being a liberal. Who knows why.”

People Parent Exception

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“None of our films look alike, we are very dialectical in our approach to each one, and 'Hoop Dreams' was no exception. That's what I love about documentary filmmaking, we never know where the story is going, we don't know what is going to happen next, and we're inside a culture of people that you have to figure out in many ways. It's a relationship between what you thought might have been the story, and what happens in the 'field.' Out of that comes the story, which was exactly what happened with 'Hoop Dreams.'”

People Dream Film Culture Exception Filmmaking

Author:Gordon Quinn

“The goal of European unification can only be achieved if everyone participates, perhaps with exceptions in some areas. Not all countries are part of monetary union, and not all are in the Schengen area. But the fundamental goal should be to keep everyone on board.”

Country Goal Exception Monetary

Author:Wolfgang Schauble

“Donald Trump wins 2,623 counties and Hillary Clinton with 489. You know how many counties independents won? Zero. Just like they always have. Not one county. Independents did not win one county. The exception to that, 1992 when Ross Perot won 15. The independents don't win anything. That's why I've always - the precious independents and the moderates and so forth. So much bohunk out there.”

Winning Clinton Exception County

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Jimmy Carter, of course, was beloved. Peanut farmer. Came out of nowhere, governor of Georgia. Normally Democrats hate Southern accents, 'cause Southern accents equals Deliverance, equals hayseed, equals idiot. But if it's one of them... But you had to look the other way with Jimmy Carter and then here came Bill Clinton later. So depending on where the Southern accent's from, they'll make an exception and not be prejudicial about it. But for the most part, a Southern accent may as well be a slave owner as far as Democrats are concerned; they want no part of it.”

Hate Concerned Slave Clinton Democrat Idiot Beloved Exception Farmers Southern Jimmy Peanuts Deliverance Be A Slave

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“You get very little from the studios anymore, it's all independent. And I think the studio, with the exception of something like The Social Network, a fine film, very interesting, but as for studio pictures, that's it, what else? There was more only a few years ago. So it changes, and I'm trying as much as I can.”

Thinking Trying Film Interesting Independent Exception Very Interesting Social Network

Author:Peter Weir

“I think Hollywood sees so many parts of America through a very narrow prism. The South is no exception. And those stereotypes, while sometimes true, are exaggerated for me to the point of boredom.”

Thinking Sometimes Boredom Exception Stereotype

Author:Walton Goggins

“Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy andnational security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.”

People President Security Policy Clinton Exception Foreign Policy National Security

Author:Jack Keane

“Shareholders are sort of like cats; they get herded around, and they follow the leader. With the exception of a few activist shareholders, there are a very rare number of big, important, influential shareholders that like to step up and say there's a problem here, especially when they're making money.”

Important Problem Leader Cat Making Money Exception Activist Influential Step Up

Author:Andrew Ross Sorkin

“Rockets have remained fundamentally unchanged, except for a few exceptions for the last almost 50 years. So, for there to be a fundamental shift in rocketry and getting into space, there almost has to be a breakthrough in propulsion. Either in how to bring the price down, or how to more efficiently get people up into space and the key barrier is the expense of a rocket.”

People Exception Barriers Breakthrough

Author:Leroy Chiao

“All my novels are rooted in their time and in their place. The place of my novels is Israel, almost without exception. Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well. And, that's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well. Don't write about that which you don't know.”

Writing Novel Advice Exception

Author:Amos Oz

“My perception of the human animal is as an extremely dangerous predator. That's who I perceive us to be as a species. Maybe the most dangerous predator on the planet, with the exception of a few microbes. I'm really grateful for the degree of socialization that prevents us, most of the time, from killing and eating each other. And I admire all the social structures that have been designed and layered and niched in that encourage bonding toward a kind of social harmony that is meant to contain and counteract our natural inclinations toward predation, ferocity, and eating whatever moves.”

Kind Moving Natural Animal Dangerous Perception Eating Harmony Grateful Killing Admire Perceive Exception Predator

Author:Katherine Dunn

“Every political race I've started, I've entered as an underdog and a long shot. This is certainly no exception. But I happen to be the best person for this job. Democrats need someone who can win. And there are two strategies for winning: You can energize the base, which is the strategy the party has used in the last couple of elections...unfortunately without success.Or you can energize and expand the base and bring the campaign to states where we've not had much success particularly in the heartland.”

Heart Long Political Winning Party Couple Election Strategy Democrat Being The Best Exception Underdog

Author:Tom Vilsack

“To ask people's permission to take their pictures? Sometimes it feels right to ask, but I will not ask, unless it is essential to do so. If you asked all the time, you would miss everything. With the exception of portraits, it is generally bad news if people are looking at the camera.”

People Sometimes Missing Exception

Author:Martin Parr

“The wonderful thing about Crystal in Mr. Sunshine is that she doesn't have any boundaries. She's not aware socially of what's correct and incorrect. Crystal's probably the craziest character I've ever had to do and the furthest I've gone, with the only exception being Away We Go - I was pretty big in that.”

Character Wonderful Boundaries Exception Sunshine

Author:Allison Janney

“Republicans have reached out so much to black Republicans because it's part of our tradition. Blacks have been in this nation longer than most other Americans with the possible exception of white Anglo-Saxon Protestant. The first blacks in Congress and the first black Governor were all Republicans. It was Republicans who fought the Civil War over slavery and who introduced the Civil Rights legislation over the next hundred years.”

War Black Republican Tradition Slavery Civil Rights Civil War Exception

Author:Ann Coulter

“I aspire to be an instrument of the director. I'm happiest like that. The stronger the director, the more I'm willing to give them. It's not just about admiration for their films, it's how they deal with you, and whether they get you or the way you work. If they don't, you better adjust your way of working to suit them. I want to work with people who are good at what they do, and people who are passionate. As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart.”

People Giving Character Film Suffering Fool Stronger Passionate Exception Admiration Sweetheart Cranky

Author:Willem Dafoe

“The Syrian people will never forget those who extended their hand to help them rid of their dictatorship. The Syrian people also would love to be friends with all nations. I think the new Syria will contribute greatly to the return of regional stability and the birth of common development with Arab nations and the region. The only exception is those countries that still harm the Syrian peoples and take some of their rights. We are looking for a region where cooperation, prosperity, and peace flourish.”

People Thinking Country Helping Forget Common Birth Prosperity Exception Never Forget Cooperation Stability Dictatorship Syria

Author:Burhan Ghalioun

“Sometimes when you're in the midst of something you don't always appreciate it while you're doing it. Gargoyles was an exception to that. At the time, I knew we were doing something kind of special. Something that might not be repeatable. It turned out to be, professionally.”

Kind Sometimes Special Appreciate Exception

Author:Greg Weisman

“I would like to believe that most people, regardless of gender, are good and kind. The good men in my stories are the rule. It's the bad men that are the exception and because I tend toward the dark in my fiction, you see more of the exception than the rule.”

People Men Believe Kind Dark Gender Exception Good Man

Author:Roxane Gay

“When you're a young person, you are biologically driven to believe you are immortal, and that's why you engage in all kinds of risky behavior you stop once you feel death's cruel breath on your neck. I think that as a straight white man in particular, I was tempted to believe that I was immortal and eternal because, after all, in this culture, straight white dudes are the heroes of every story that you see or read about with very rare exception. So how could the story go on without the hero, you know?”

Thinking Men Believe Kind Culture Hero Behavior Driven All Kinds Exception Immortal

Author:John Hodgman

“One of the crucial underpinnings of New York as a culture capital is that there are multiple markets. There is not just one art gallery district, there are several art gallery districts. I feel that there should be art galleries and art studios in every neighborhood without exception. They should be integrated into the social and physical fabric of the streets. If we want a lively city, we can't just have high towers and dense constructions, we have to have living organisms of streets and neighborhoods. And the arts are a crucial part of that.”

Art Culture Exception Neighborhood Construction Multiple Lively Integrated

Author:Sharon Zukin

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