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If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

~Colin Powell

Topics: Achieve Attitude Big Big Things Develop Excellence Exception Going Habit Little Matters Prevailing Things You

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With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys.

~Curt Weldon

Topics: Basically Been Bunch Dumb Exception Fox Fox News Like Mainstream Mainstream Media Media Monkeys New New York New York Times News Radio Rest Silenced Talk Talk Radio Times York Cnn

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Oh see, first off you gotta realize - everything for me is a reconstruction or deconstruction. I would actually say deconstruction. Mission: Impossible would be the exception. That would be a reconstruction- deconstruction.

~Danny Elfman

Topics: Actually Deconstruction Everything Exception First Gotta Impossible Me Mission Off Oh Realize Reconstruction Say See Would You

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I always laugh and say I met God on the way up, and I got to know him on the way down. And so, as I'm crashing and losing everything, a lot of people run to God when they are struggling. And I was no exception.

~Dave Ramsey

Topics: Always Crashing Down Everything Exception God Got Him Know Laugh Losing Lot Met No Exception People Run Say Struggling Up Way

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I believe without exception that theory follows practice. Whenever there is a conflict between theory and practice, theory is wrong. As far as I'm concerned, we make theories for what people have done.

~David Baker

Topics: As Far As Believe Between Concerned Conflict Done Exception Far Follows Make People Practice Theories Theory Whenever Without Wrong I Believe

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You don't usually get a compound word where the first part is a slang thing and the second part is a rather ordinary or formal thing - they don't usually mix - but 'gobsmacked' is a perfect exception to that rule.

~David Crystal

Topics: Compound Exception First Formal Get Mix Ordinary Part Perfect Rather Rule Second Slang Thing Where Word You

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Hindsight is the most dangerous thing imaginable for me. I imagine that's the case for most filmmakers. And I would love to be a filmmaker who was an exception to that rule, but I'm certainly not.

~David Lowery

Topics: Case Certainly Dangerous Dangerous Thing Exception Filmmaker Filmmakers Hindsight Imaginable Imagine Love Me Most Rule Thing Who Would

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There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.

~David Ogilvy

Topics: Advertising Agencies Almost Destroy Disagreeable Eggs Exception Few Few Men Find Genius Golden Lay Men Need Them Very Without

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Most Sunday magazines, with the New York Times as an exception, are kind of sleepy, weekend service vehicles to move living room products.

~David Talbot

Topics: Exception Kind Living Living Room Magazines Most Move New New York New York Times Products Room Service Sleepy Sunday Times Vehicles Weekend York

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I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule.

~Denzel Washington

Topics: Been Exception Rule Unemployed Years

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