Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
We don't live in a particularly attractive world. I don't really remember, except as a small boy, anything but a pretty grim world.
I used almost every penny I ever made to build recording studios in every city I lived in. I don't have much to show for all the TV money except a lot of musical gear and a lot of songs.
Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
I just want to go on making movies, and some of them will be completely meaningless, except, of course, to me.
When I was bald, I went through a period where I seemed to do nothing except TV programmes about being bald.
So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don't know anyone except my wife who isn't a big time sinner.
I've never commented much about my experience at Enron except to say, when I was there, it was a much more pipeline and asset-oriented company.
I didn't write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.
My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.
The suffragettes realized the power of getting arrested and going to prison and harassing politicians and making a nuisance of themselves. It got them a lot of attention. What they never did was set out to endanger human life except for sacrificing themselves.
Hillary Clinton famously talked about how raising a child takes a village. Except our society isn't set up that way. We're organized in nuclear units, and a single mom can ask her friends only so many times for help picking up the kids.
You can ask me anything you want; I'm very opinionated... except about my private life. I don't want to talk about that.
I'm not really in touch with those 'Seinfeld' lads except Jason Alexander.
No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.
Everyone's sex life is funny except your own. Every person's is, and yours never is.
They usually have two tellers in my local bank, except when it's very busy, when they have one.
I don't think anyone has made me except myself. I think I have done it on my own.
On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
I've never been invited to do an exhibition or do a talk in England, except once, about 10 years ago. I've given talks all across Canada, many in the United States, South Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan - but not England.
There is nothing else to do in Nashville except for write songs.
I don't know what to say about it except Tom Hanks is a great person, a serious person; he's dissatisfied in a very likeable way, in a very discreet way, and Steven Spielberg is similar in his discretion and drive. But Spielberg is calm. He's this driven filmmaker and visionary. He really is.
My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind.
I don't buy art. I'd rather buy a beautiful location or a beautiful site than buy art. A beautiful home is like owning a beautiful painting, except you can live in it.
The crazy thing is I got all of these shoes, and probably 80 percent of them I've never worn before. I've worn all the glasses. I sleep in them, bend them up a little bit. Glasses are on all the time except when I'm at practice or at work.
The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.
Without sounding overly pompous about it, I don't really trust certainty in anything, actually. Especially as I get older. Except love. I'm certain of love, I guess.
Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.
At my school, they have an ice cream special sometimes, and they have this ice cream sandwich, except the sandwich part is like an Oreo and the inside like cookies n' cream ice cream. I love that.
'Game of Thrones' is a good one to binge-watch, except you realize at the end of every episode that you've been holding your breath for, like, 30 minutes, which is probably not good for your brain.
I really don't feel like I'm in any kind of contest. Except, maybe, with myself. Just want to learn and create and grow. Get better all the time with these filmmaking tools. I don't expect perfection from myself. Just progress.
I come from a real working class background, and I didn't know anyone sophisticated - except I saw Edie Sedgewick once at the Art Museum in Philly. She had these black leotards and little black pumps and this big ermine cape and all these white dogs and black sunglasses and black eyes. She was classy!
I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.
I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.
It is plain that we don't care about our poor people except to exploit them as cheap labor and victimize them through excessive rents and consumer prices.
Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.
