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“I think that's why we see this mixed reaction - Republican congressional leaders like Paul Ryan speaking out very firmly, but Republican candidates not as much, with the exception of the candidates in the single digits like Jeb Bush or Lindsey Graham, who said how to make America great again tell - Donald Trump to go to hell.”

Thinking Said America Leader Hell Trump Republican Reactions Candidates Exception Go To Hell Speaking Out

Author:Mara Liasson

“Fine-art photography is a very small world associated with galleries, museums, and university art programs. It's not like rock music; the products of this world have never been widely seen because the artists are often exploring things that are not already coded in general consciousness. It's not that photographers don't want to be famous, it's just that very few of the views from the edges of culture make the mainstream. Ansel Adams was an exception.”

“We normally consider stability to be the constant in life and accidents to be the exception, but it's exactly the opposite. In reality, the accident is the rule and stability is the exception.”

Reality Opposites Constant Accidents Exception Stability

Author:Gabriel Orozco

“Photojournalist? With a few exceptions, those of us working as photojournalists might now more appropriately call ourselves illustrators. For, unlike real reporters, whose job it is to document what's going down, most of us go out in the world expecting to give form to the magazine, or to newspaper editor's ideas, using what's become over the years a pretty standardized visual language. So we search for what is instantly recognizable, supportive of the text, easiest to digest, or most marketable - more mundane realities be damned.”

“I look at other artists who have had fabulous first albums, and you don't know what they're doing today. Who's to say I'll be an exception to that rule?”

Knows Firsts Looks Today Artist Albums Exception Fabulous

Author:Toni Braxton

“Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing.”

Writing Firsts Has Beens Social Exception Utopian

Book:Appreciative management and leadership: the power of positive thought and action in organizations

Source: Appreciative management and leadership: the power of positive thought and action in organizations

“Aging is a staircase - the upward ascension of the human spirit, bringing us into wisdom, wholeness and authenticity. As you may know, the entire world operates on a universal law: entropy, the second law of thermodynamics. Entropy means that everything in the world, everything, is in a state of decline and decay, the arch. There's only one exception to this universal law, and that is the human spirit, which can continue to evolve upwards.”

“The instruction at Edinburgh was altogether by lectures, and these were intolerably dull, with the exception of those on chemistry.”

Dull Exception Chemistry Instruction Lectures Edinburgh

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)

“Concerning iTunes, the deals have mainly been done with the record companies. But the artists, with some exceptions, haven't been very well-represented. This is partly because the record companies have largely been copyright owners.”

Wells Done Artist Deals Company Records Havens Exception Owners Copyright Record Companies Itunes

Author:Peter Gabriel

“However, today due to civil litigation funded by cults this option for families has been eliminated. Instead, the only form of cult intervention now practiced is voluntary-with the exception of minor children under the direct supervision of a custodial parent.”

Children Has Beens Today Form Parent Direct Dues Exception Minors Cult Intervention Supervision

Author:Rick Ross

“I have seen so many bands and musicians fade away, especially the ones in my early days that treated me and my bands with contempt for no other reason than that they were headlining the show, not all though, with great exceptions such as Slade and Vinegar Joe.”

Reason Shows Band Musician Treated Exception Contempt Fades Fade Away Vinegar

Author:Bernie Marsden

“Presidents and Lyndon Johnson was really no exception, very rapidly learned the difference between a contingency plan and an authorized act.”

President Differences Plans Exception Johnson Contingency Contingency Plans

Author:McGeorge Bundy

“Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.”

Song Mines Exception Love And Death

Author:Robyn Hitchcock

“My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large.”

Ifs Humanity Cases Consistent Exception Conception Exclusive

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“The media is in the business of finding exceptions to everyday life. Bad things are still the exception. That's good, because once bad things stop being news, we really are in trouble. If people forget that bad is the exception, they think they live in a horrible world. There is so much that works and is right and friendly and warm. But we take that for granted.”

People Ifs Thinking World Stills Forget Trouble Media Findings News Everyday Warm Horrible Granted Exception Friendly Bad Things Everyday Life

Author:Tom Bodett

“It will be enough to recall in th is sense that almost all the Countries arose, centuries ago, through cruel conquests. With exception, men have been squandering servants th at at the moment of adjustment did not appear to be worthy of the benefits received.”

Men Has Beens Country Enough Moments Century Benefits Worthy Servant Exception Recalls Conquest Adjustment Squandering

Author:Chico Xavier

“Folks, Brian Williams isn't the exception. He's exactly what they've taught us to expect from them all. It's not journalism any more - it's entertainment, it's celebrity, it's agendas and it's money. All too often, a lie is now an acceptable way of communicating. To the media, a lie has as much value as the truth.”

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Author:Wayne LaPierre

“...when doing science (or perhaps when doing anything at all in a society as judgmental as our own), be very careful and very certain before pronouncing something to be a norm - because at that instant, you have made it supremely difficult to ever again look objectively at an exception to that supposed norm.”

Looks Made Certain Difficult Careful Made It Instant Exception Norm Judgmental

Book:Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping - Now Revised and Updated

Source: Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping - Now Revised and Updated

“Politics are a part of athletics now. Politics is a part of everything. And athletics is no exception.”

Exception Athletics

Author:Melissa Harris-Perry

“An Ingmar Bergman film would probably owe a sizeable bulk of its import and its direction and its quality to the directorial end and to the director because it's uniquely a Bergman film. But that again is not the general - no, that's much more the exception than the rule.”

Ends Film Quality Directors Exception Imports Bergman

Author:Rod Serling

“To tell you the truth, I'm not unhappy about it. I'm not even sure that I like the idea of adapting novels into films. It's very difficult to do, and it usually doesn't work. There are exceptions, but generally speaking, one feels disappointed with the result.”

Feels Ideas Film Difficult Results Novel Unhappy Exception Disappointed Adapting

Author:Paul Auster

“I like extremely effeminate dogs like terriers or schnauzers. I make an exception for giant schnauzers and big poodles. Basically, I like dogs which can be dyed day-glo colours.”

Bigs Dog Giants Colour Exception Poodles Terriers Schnauzers

Author:Jonathan Meades

“I'm a little old-fashioned - I like it when the man opens the door and I like it when a man pays for me. I particularly like it when they pay for dinner or whatever, because I've pretty much done the opposite, but for the exception of James [Taylor], where we split everything down the middle. I've been the larger money earner in practically all of my relationships. There's equality and there are positive differences, which are complimentary.”

Men Littles Done Differences Pay Doors Middle He Man Opposites Dinner Exception Splits Old Fashioned

Author:Carly Simon

“The fact remains that books that really put gay people in the center, and especially books that do so in a way that is sexually explicit, tend not to get a great deal of mainstream attention: they don't tend to sell well, and they don't tend to win major awards. This makes the occasional exception, like Alan Hollinghurst, all the more remarkable.”

People Way Wells Book Facts Winning Deals Attention Gay Majors Remains Sells Remarkable Exception Awards Mainstream Occasional Sexually Gay People Explicit

Author:Garth Greenwell

“I'm optimistic, though. Now, with the Arab Spring, I think that people in the region are beginning to overturn some of these clichés, and Western editors are starting to catch up. We're seeing some exceptions to the stereotypes, like Elizabeth Rubin's great piecein Newsweek, "The Feminists in the Middle of Tahrir Square." But an article like that shouldn't be the exception. It should be the rule.”

People Thinking Should Seeing Middle Spring Western Starting Feminist Optimistic Exception Regions Editors Squares Articles Stereotype Arab Spring Tahrir Square

Author:Annia Ciezadlo

“Nothing moves around, it just goes straight from the start to the end. The final draft on the final day, that's it, same for the novels. What I turn in is what you see. There are some exceptions, but almost always I can see exactly what it's going to be.”

I Can Ends Moving Turns Novel Finals Exception

Author:T.C. Boyle

“Alcohol had a lot to do with it, too, and mental instability. All writers are narcissistic, manic-depressive drug addicts and alcoholics, and I am no exception.”

Drug Alcohol Exception Addict Alcoholics Narcissistic Drug Addict Instability Manic Depressive

Author:T.C. Boyle

“I wanted to dissolve the boundary between the outside world and the world of the relationships. Those events, with exception of the Mt. Saint Helens explosion, were happening in the real time of the book, as I was writing.”

World Writing Book Real Wanted Events Happenings Saint Boundaries Exception Explosions Outside World

Author:Paul Lisicky

“I'm not going to get establishment support. I'm not going to get the support of the governors and the senators, with few exceptions, and many of the major organizations.”

Support Majors Organization Exception Establishment Governors Senators

Author:Bernie Sanders

“The real question is "Why should we make an exception for billionaire politicians?". We should not.”

Should Real Politician Exception Billionaire Real Questions

Author:Tulip Siddiq

“I was wrong about [Jack] Keane. He is the exception that proves the rule. I was certainly right about the fact that he is a member of the warrior class.”

Facts Class Prove Members Warrior Exception

Author:Carly Fiorina

“Time moves on. You can't go back in time. Everything has a consequence, and the last episode of the last season is no exception.”

Lasts Moving Consequence Seasons Exception Episodes Back In Time Go Back In Time

Author:Jon Hamm

“With the exception of Megadeth, I can't imagine any band we were hesitant about touring with. I mean we liked the original Megadeth, but I can't think of any band we toured with we weren't psyched about.”

Thinking Mean I Can Imagine Band Originals Exception Touring Hesitant Megadeth

Author:Reed Mullin

“I was in charge of price controls in World War II and had a ceiling on overall prices. Everybody who was subject to general maximum price regulation wanted an exception and went to Congress to persuade a Congressman, or a group of people on the Hill, that I was being a menace to their industry.”

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Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“The establishment of the Republican Party, which I've been watching all my life. They always seem to win. I mean, there was the exception, of course, with Goldwater back in '64, which turned out to be a catastrophe. But it always seems that the Mitt Romneys and the East Coast types always end up winning the fights.”

Mean Ends Seems Fighting Courses Winning Party Type Republican East Exception Catastrophe Republican Party Coast Romney East Coast

Author:Chris Matthews

“I'm trying to make it a little bit more personal this time. All my shows are hodge-podges, and this one is no exception but this one delves a little more deeper into my life and my world. Hopefully it's funny. I did a version of this at Birdland last January and it's similar-ish to what I've done before. But I've been working on it all year; I did it out here in Los Angeles in a theatre and kept developing it. Hopefully it'll be better.”

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Author:Jason Graae

“I think one of the most destructive things in terms of American security has been for all of our leaders, without exception in both parties, to identify Osama bin Laden as a gangster or as a madman, as an apocalyptic character who's out to destroy our civilization.”

Thinking Has Beens Character Term Party Leader Security Civilization Destructive Exception Bin Laden Madmen Gangsters Apocalyptic Osama Bin Laden

Author:Michael Scheuer

“I would have fought in WW2, so I wasn't a pacifist in the broader sense. I prefer to be a pacifist, but I think there are exceptions and times to defend yourself or your country, but that war wasn't one of them.”

Thinking War Country Exception Pacifist Ww2

Author:Joe R. Lansdale

“I don't have a set schedule to work on poetry at any given time, at the same time every day, but I do try to work on poetry every day and I do find some time every day that I can with some exceptions to work on poetry.”

Trying I Can Given Exception Schedules

Author:Edward Hirsch

“Our marriage has always been a 50-50 proposition - with the possible exception of closet space.”

Space Marriage Exception Closets Propositions Funny Marriage Wedding Anniversary

Author:Gene Perret

“What he [Bernie Sanders] does next will really determine whether he is blazing a trail that others can follow into office, or whether he is an exception to the rule.”

Doe Next Office Determine Exception Trails Blazing Exception To The Rule

Author:Ben Wikler

“America has become and was the exception to the way most of the people in the world were forced to live, because America was the first formally built, structured country on the premise that the people ran the show based on their liberty, based on their natural God-given rights to pursue happiness. The right to life, the right to freedom and to pursue happiness. No other country in the history of the world had ever been formed or founded on such premises. This one was. That was the exception.”

People World Way Firsts Country Shows America Given Natural Liberty Rights Built Pursue Ran Exception Other Countries World History Premises Right To Life

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“American exceptionalism, in the broad sense, is not a bunch of braggadocious words people say, "Yeah, we're better people. We have a better country. We are higher class people." That's not what it is. America was the exception to the way human beings prior to America, most of which lived.”

People Way Humans Country America Human Beings Class Higher Yeah Bunch Exception Broads Exceptionalism American Exceptionalism

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.”

Knows Way Children Certain Born Brain Poet Exception

Author:Grace Cavalieri

“With rare exceptions, people are responsible for what they do.”

People Responsible Exception

Author:Park Dietz

“Candidates rarely win battles with the media, and unless you really know what you're doing you should not tangle with them. The exception is when you know this is a search-and- destroy mission on the part of the media and your case is very strong, you are very articulate, you know what you're trying to accomplish - and you have no alternatives.”

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Author:Roger Ailes

“I have become convinced, through my studies, that the only way to achieve a safe, just and viable world is to live by the Golden Rule. This is what drives my writing. I want to point out this interconnectedness, point out the beauty of the faith in all traditions without exception, show the complexity of the atrocities that we have experienced, and our shared culpability as a species.”

World Way Want Writing Shows Study Achieve Safe Tradition Species Convinced Golden Complexity Exception Live By Atrocities Golden Rule Interconnectedness Culpability

Author:Karen Armstrong

“I have always been a very passionate person. Some people are born with this fire burning inside to "do," or create, with an insatiable hunger for knowledge and experience, and I am no exception.”

People Persons Born Fire Hunger Passionate Burning Exception Insatiable Knowledge And Experience Fire Burning Burning Inside Insatiable Hunger

Author:Nikki Reed

“I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.”

World States Social Grew Grew Up Democratic Exception Norm

Author:Tony Judt

“I'm sure you feel differently about writing than you did when you first started. When you get older and your brain changes, you have to figure out how your job fits into your life as it changes, you know what I mean? I guess everybody goes through that stuff, and I'm no exception, always trying to figure out what I'm doing with music.”

Knows Feels Writing Trying Firsts Mean Jobs Stuff Brain Figures Fit Exception Always Trying

Author:Dan Auerbach

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