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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.

~Coretta Scott King

Topics: About Care Cheap Consumer Except Excessive Exploit Labor Our People Plain Poor Poor People Prices Them Through

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Someone remarked that the newspapers or the news magazines are the same as the psalms except that the names changed in the stories. Maybe you can't understand the psalms without understanding the newspaper and the other way around.

~Corita Kent

Topics: Around Changed Except Magazines Maybe Names News Newspaper Newspapers Other Psalms Same Someone Stories Understand Understanding Way Without You

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If a brutal scene is shown for no reason except to shock, then it is bad.

~Cornel Wilde

Topics: Bad Brutal Except No Reason Reason Scene Shock Shown Then

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I need eight hours of sleep, but I never get it except at weekends.

~Cornelia Parker

Topics: Eight Except Get Hours Need Never Sleep Weekends

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There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait.

~Countee Cullen

Topics: Breaks Call Except Getting Hard Hard Work No Secret Order Read Secret Something Succeed Success Suggest Things Three Wait Which Work Write Writer

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Late night is no different than making a film, really, except that it's faster, and if you do a crap one, you can do a better one tomorrow. Writing a novel and doing stand-up - that stuff is very similar.

~Craig Ferguson

Topics: Better Crap Different Doing Except Faster Film Late Late Night Making Night Novel Really Similar Stand-Up Stuff Than Tomorrow Very Writing You

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I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.

~Craig Ferguson

Topics: Because Bigger Blog Book Brainy Except Know Like Reading You

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My first time in Germany. We started off in Heidelberg, which is this quaint, nice town. The Germans, they shoot just like the Americans, except for, if it's a 10-hour day, they're leaving at 5. You don't go to 5:30, 6, 7. No. And then we had a fest for everything.

~Craig Robinson

Topics: American Day Everything Except First First Time Germans Germany Go Had Just Leaving Like Nice Off Shoot Started Then Time Town Which You

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Traditional autobiography has generally had a poor press. The novelist Daphne du Maurier condemned all examples of this literary form as self-indulgent. Others have quipped that autobiography reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

~Craig Venter

Topics: About Autobiography Bad Condemned Examples Except Form Generally Had His Literary Memory Nothing Novelist Others Poor Press Reveals Traditional Writer

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You watch these reality shows and say, 'Oh, I would do that, except for eating all the gross stuff.' These reality shows are like everyone's little guilty pleasure. To have an opportunity to be on one, why not? Anybody who says, 'No, I don't want to be on one' is kind of lying in the back of their heads.

~Cris Judd

Topics: Anybody Back Eating Everyone Except Gross Guilty Guilty Pleasure Heads Kind Like Little Lying Oh Opportunity Pleasure Reality Reality Shows Say Says Shows Stuff Want Watch Who Why Why Not Would You

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