Exception Quotes - Page 14

• 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.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  War, People, World

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• 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.

  Chris Matthews

  Party, Mean, Fighting

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• 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.

  Jason Graae

  Years, Theatre, Trying

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• 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.

  Michael Scheuer

  Party, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Country, War, Thinking

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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.

  Edward Hirsch

  Trying, Schedules, Given

  "Embracing the Mess of Poetry". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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

  Gene Perret

  Marriage, Wedding Anniversary, Space

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• 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.

  Ben Wikler

  Exception To The Rule, Office, Doe

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• 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.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Rights, America

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• 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.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Class, America

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• 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.

  Grace Cavalieri

  Children, Brain, Way

  "Four Energetic Women Behind America's Literary Arts". Interview with Daniela Gioseffi, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.

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

  Park Dietz

  People, Responsible

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• 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.

  Roger Ailes

  Strong, Winning, Media

  Source: www.campaignsandelections.com

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• 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.

  Karen Armstrong

  Writing, World, Safe

  "A conversation with Karen Armstrong". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 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.

  Nikki Reed

  Fire, Insatiable Hunger, People

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• 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.

  Dan Auerbach

  Jobs, Writing, Mean

  "Dan Auerbach on bands old and new". Interview with Allison Stewart, www.chicagotribune.com. July 20, 2016.

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• Anything that is missing in the implementation of the Minsk Agreement is - without any exception - up to the Kiev central government of Ukraine. You cannot demand something of Moscow that, in fact, the rulers in Kiev have to deliver. The most important aspect is the constitutional reform, Point 11 of the Minsk Agreement.

  Vladimir Putin

  Ukraine, Agreement, Government

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• There's this false notion that this is a regional phenomenon, when in fact every state in the union has hardcore rednecks. No exceptions.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Redneck, Unions, Facts

  "'True-life Source Material Is Fabulously Bizarre' - Carl Hiaasen Answers Our Questions about 'Razor Girl'". Interview with Adrian Liang, www.omnivoracious.com. September 8, 2016.

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• Real scientists are required to play by the rules without exception. Creationists follow the rules of science only so long as it is expedient. Then they resort to miracles. But resorting to miracles is not offering an explanation: it is asserting that no real explanation exists. Whenever creationists resort to miracles, they are admitting that their system cannot account for the facts of nature; it cannot explain the world.

  Frank Zindler

  Real, Offering, Play

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• With one exception everybody who has ever been involved with me is still a great friend of mine.

  Truman Capote

  Great Friend, Stills, Mines

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the primary debates for the 2016 election, every single Republican candidate was a climate change denier, with one exception, John Kasich - the "rational moderate" - who said it may be happening but we shouldn't do anything about it. For a long time, the media have downplayed the issue.

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, Issues, Long

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, www.truth-out.org. September 17, 2016.

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• Kant regards the universalizability test for maxims as focused on a very special sort of situation: one where the agent is tempted to make an exception to a recognized duty out of self-preference. The universalizability test is supposed help the agent to see, in a particular case of moral judgment, that self-preference is not a satisfactory reason for exempting yourself from a duty you recognize. Kant thinks, as a matter of human nature, that this situation arises often enough and that we need a canon of judgment to guard against it.

  Allen W. Wood

  Thinking, Self, Special

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Extroverts are more attuned to social rewards, so they are more likely to flash a smile for effect. A notable exception are introverts - like me - whom I call "socially accessible" introverts. We have been trained well to smile and nod, which can place a burden on our processing efforts.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Effort, Extroverts, Rewards

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I am a firm believer that you don't do anything significant by yourself. Again, maybe there are exceptions. There's the Picasso or the Mozart.

  Barack Obama

  Significant, Firm, Believer

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• A lot of addiction actually ends by age 30 - something like 50 percent of all addictions with the exception of tobacco - and I think a lot of what's going on there is that the self-control areas of the brain are finally developed enough to be able to stop yourself from relapsing or just continuing. There is a maturational aspect to it as well.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Thinking, Self, Addiction

  Source: sojo.net

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