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Drugs: All drugs should be illegal, except for the drugs that are prescribed and administered to you in just ways, and no drugs should ever be misused, abused. – Ryan Pack	added by anonymous 3 years ago
It was horrifying, it's the amateurs versus the experts. Except the amateurs have all the power. – Olivia Troye	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The evidence is overwhelming, theres not one iota of evidence that he did anything except defend himself. – Lin Wood	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I don't know what to say, except thank you, he needed this. I'm just glad we could help him. – Carlos Valdez	Found on CNN 3 years ago
My father left us when I was 10, so I had to make enough money for us to be able to live in a house because my brother went in the service during Vietnam and I was sole support of my mother. And she had no skills, really, except to clean other people's houses. So I had to have a bunch of jobs, you know, as well as music. – Bob Seger	added by RobertHaigh 3 years ago
Posting the picture without the whole context was not my best choice, i was watching my 14-year-old son in his first-ever varsity soccer game for the Meadville High School in a stadium very, very physically distanced from every other person except my husband -- wearing masks. – Allegheny College	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I was watching my 14-year-old son in his first-ever varsity soccer game for the Meadville High School in a stadium very, very physically distanced from every other person except my husband -- wearing masks. – Allegheny College	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Even if you aren't going anywhere except to the dining room table for school, planning is important. – Kristi King	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Separation in culture and arts does nobody any favors except for the people in power. That's just it... So I feel like I'm in the business of challenging that narrative. – Rhiannon Giddens	added by RobertHaigh 3 years ago
We are peaceful people and we dont want anything except to solve this problem, we want these people to go away and to build our country with a new president. – Sviatlana Tikhanovskaya	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day. – Richard Pryor	added by RobertHaigh 3 years ago
I've invented The Wizard of Christchurch out of nowhere, there were no wizards when I arrived in the world, except in books. – The Wizard of Christchurch	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Everything makes me nervous - except making films. – Elizabeth Taylor	added by RobertHaigh 3 years ago
The real haves are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the real have nots are they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor. – Eric Hoffer	added by Normando 3 years ago
I agree with all these things, by the way except were not going to take all the money from the police, i think we need our police department. – Mayor Krewson	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Unfortunately, we reopened too soon, we also reopened also in not the safest way possible and now we are seeing these surges all across the country. We are basically back to where New York was back in March except that this time I don't think there is the political will and the public support to have these shutdowns to be able to control this virus from really surging out of control. – Leana Wen	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Sufferings go along with success as life can never be a uniform and smooth road. It is a culmination of unprecedented and unfortunate events. So, if you have the strength to stand strong at the time of suffering then you can surely except success to knock at your door. – Prashant Agarwal	added by prashantagarwal 3 years ago
The people who come to the rally, they don't care about them except as a photo op, because they're going to kill some of them and some of their family and friends, what we're seeing is pure propaganda that is damaging to the American people. – Art Caplan	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The administration has used tax dollars and government resources for a Jurassic Park experiment, except without the island. – Jaydee Hanson	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The people who come to the rally, they don't care about them except as a photo-op, because they're going to kill some of them and some of their family and friends. – Art Caplan	Found on CNN 3 years ago
There's no actual database on no-knocks. We don't know when it's used, to whom it's used against. We don't know the race, the sex, the age, we know nothing about no-knocks, except for the Breonna Taylor situation that was tragic without question. – Tim Scott	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We are all globally in the same place except this (coronavirus) is even harder. We can't physically gather. So I started thinking about how do we to pull the world together at a time of need. – Jane Rosenthal	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I have asked the UK government not to deploy their' Stay Alert' advertising campaign in Scotland, because the message at this stage in Scotland is... except for the essential reasons you know about, stay at home, we must not squander our progress by easing up too soon, or by sending mixed messages that result in people thinking it's okay to ease up now. Let me be very blunt about the consequences if we were to do that : people will die unnecessarily. We must not take that risk. – Nicola Sturgeon	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Except for the initial panic in the month of March, in general the markets are ignoring economic data for the most part and are looking more at data related to COVID-19. – Brian Nick	Found on Reuters 3 years ago

Drugs: All drugs should be illegal, except for the drugs that are prescribed and administered to you in just ways, and no drugs should ever be misused, abused.

– Ryan Pack

added by anonymous
3 years ago

It was horrifying, it's the amateurs versus the experts. Except the amateurs have all the power.

– Olivia Troye

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The evidence is overwhelming, theres not one iota of evidence that he did anything except defend himself.

– Lin Wood

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I don't know what to say, except thank you, he needed this. I'm just glad we could help him.

– Carlos Valdez

Found on CNN
3 years ago

My father left us when I was 10, so I had to make enough money for us to be able to live in a house because my brother went in the service during Vietnam and I was sole support of my mother. And she had no skills, really, except to clean other people's houses. So I had to have a bunch of jobs, you know, as well as music.

– Bob Seger

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

Posting the picture without the whole context was not my best choice, i was watching my 14-year-old son in his first-ever varsity soccer game for the Meadville High School in a stadium very, very physically distanced from every other person except my husband -- wearing masks.

– Allegheny College

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I was watching my 14-year-old son in his first-ever varsity soccer game for the Meadville High School in a stadium very, very physically distanced from every other person except my husband -- wearing masks.

– Allegheny College

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Even if you aren't going anywhere except to the dining room table for school, planning is important.

– Kristi King

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Separation in culture and arts does nobody any favors except for the people in power. That's just it... So I feel like I'm in the business of challenging that narrative.

– Rhiannon Giddens

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

We are peaceful people and we dont want anything except to solve this problem, we want these people to go away and to build our country with a new president.

– Sviatlana Tikhanovskaya

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.

– Richard Pryor

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

I've invented The Wizard of Christchurch out of nowhere, there were no wizards when I arrived in the world, except in books.

– The Wizard of Christchurch

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

– Elizabeth Taylor

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

The real haves are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the real have nots are they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor.

– Eric Hoffer

added by Normando
3 years ago

I agree with all these things, by the way except were not going to take all the money from the police, i think we need our police department.

– Mayor Krewson

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Unfortunately, we reopened too soon, we also reopened also in not the safest way possible and now we are seeing these surges all across the country. We are basically back to where New York was back in March except that this time I don't think there is the political will and the public support to have these shutdowns to be able to control this virus from really surging out of control.

– Leana Wen

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Sufferings go along with success as life can never be a uniform and smooth road. It is a culmination of unprecedented and unfortunate events. So, if you have the strength to stand strong at the time of suffering then you can surely except success to knock at your door.

– Prashant Agarwal

added by prashantagarwal
3 years ago

The people who come to the rally, they don't care about them except as a photo op, because they're going to kill some of them and some of their family and friends, what we're seeing is pure propaganda that is damaging to the American people.

– Art Caplan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The administration has used tax dollars and government resources for a Jurassic Park experiment, except without the island.

– Jaydee Hanson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The people who come to the rally, they don't care about them except as a photo-op, because they're going to kill some of them and some of their family and friends.

– Art Caplan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There's no actual database on no-knocks. We don't know when it's used, to whom it's used against. We don't know the race, the sex, the age, we know nothing about no-knocks, except for the Breonna Taylor situation that was tragic without question.

– Tim Scott

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We are all globally in the same place except this (coronavirus) is even harder. We can't physically gather. So I started thinking about how do we to pull the world together at a time of need.

– Jane Rosenthal

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I have asked the UK government not to deploy their' Stay Alert' advertising campaign in Scotland, because the message at this stage in Scotland is... except for the essential reasons you know about, stay at home, we must not squander our progress by easing up too soon, or by sending mixed messages that result in people thinking it's okay to ease up now. Let me be very blunt about the consequences if we were to do that : people will die unnecessarily. We must not take that risk.

– Nicola Sturgeon

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Except for the initial panic in the month of March, in general the markets are ignoring economic data for the most part and are looking more at data related to COVID-19.

– Brian Nick

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

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