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• I would also hope that readers receive a larger understanding, or a different understanding, of what it means to be human, than they might have had before. We suffer from being quick to judge, quick to make excuses for ourselves and others, and I would like the reader to feel that we are all, more or less, in a similar state as we love and disappoint one another, and that we try, most of us, as best we can, and that to fail and succeed is what we do.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Mean, Judging, Understanding

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• I try to do as little as possible without looking like an idiot. Research is fun and easy. Writing is hard. So I try not to let the research become an excuse to not do the writing part.

  Zachary Lazar

  Fun, Writing, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My parents, though very loving, were not what one would ever describe as outgoing and therefore when I was young I was quite shy and socially awkward. Having a camera changed all that. It gave me an excuse to go anywhere and approach anybody.

  Derek Ridgers

  Parent, Awkward, Cameras

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I wanted to touch on the piece where often politicians use "god" to excuse their actions.

  Erin McKeown

  Use, Pieces, Action

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The attack on Iraq has been long planned. There just hasn't been an excuse for it. Since George H.W. Bush didn't unseat Saddam in 1991, there's been a longing among the extreme right in the United States to finish the job. The war on terrorism has given them that opportunity. Even though the logic is convoluted and fraudulent, it appears they are going to go ahead and finish the job.

  John Pilger

  Jobs, War, Opportunity

  Source: progressive.org

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• Today, there is no excuse for any one of us to sit back and go, "Ugh! There's nothing I can do about it."Because there is always something that can be done.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Done, Ugh, Today

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• I had two chances to fail [working for Disney]. The first one, they said was "too juvenile." The second one was,they give you general areas to work in. They said, "Set 'My Fair Lady' in ancient Egypt."I came up with this idea about an Egyptian princess, and I gave her, as a sidekick, a little scarab. I had a telephone meeting with the executive "handling" me, and he said, "I looked over the notes. Very cute. But lose the beetle.Beetles don't talk." Well, how do you answer that? I said, "Excuse me just a moment, I've got a teacup calling me on the other line."

  Charles Busch

  Cute, Princess, Ideas

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Making excuses and not trying because I was scared were my go-to reactions. Nothing was going to change in my life unless I did something about it.

  Erin Willett

  Trying, Scared, Reactions

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Excuses are the explanations we use for hanging on to behaviors we don't like about ourselves; they are self-defeating behaviors we don't know how to change. InExcuses Begone! I review 18 of the most common excuses people use, such as "I'm too busy, too old, too fat, too scared or it's going to take too long or be too difficult."

  Wayne Dyer

  Self, Long, People

  "A Conversation with Wayne Dyer". Interview with Ellen Mahoney, www.drwaynedyer.com. September 2009.

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• Usually, making excuses is just something we can get away with, rather than challenging or changing ourselves. If you want to change and you want your life to work at a level you've never had before, then take responsibility for it.

  Wayne Dyer

  Responsibility, Challenges, Levels

  "A Conversation with Wayne Dyer". Interview with Ellen Mahoney, www.drwaynedyer.com. September 2009.

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• The paradigm helps a person identify the thought system, which is almost always false, that is behind the rationale for the continuation of excuses. It helps them really look at excuses from an objective point of view and realize that everything they've been thinking is just as likely to be not true as it is to be true.

  Wayne Dyer

  Thinking, Views, Looks

  Interview with Ellen Mahoney, www.drwaynedyer.com. September 2009.

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• Assimilation is the way you excuse yourself. It absolutely never worked at all. You may not think you are noticeable. But they know who you are. They know you're a degenerate, and they've never forgotten that.

  Harry Hay

  Thinking, Degenerates, May

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I think primary voters have a right to know. And Donald's Trump excuse of it that he's being audited, look, that makes it even more important for him to release his taxes, so that voters can see if there is - Mitt Romney suggested there could be a bombshell there. I don't know if there is or not. But Donald is hiding them from the voters, and I think he owes candor to the voters.

  Ted Cruz

  Thinking, Important, Voters

  "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. February 28, 2016.

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• I have the easiest job in the world! It's an excuse to get up there, goof around and have fun.

  Diana DeGarmo

  Jobs, Fun, World

  Interview with Nick Orlando, www.broadwayworld.com. March 16, 2006.

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• I promised Todd [Willingham] that I would attend the execution. ... It was impossible for me to go. I was incapable of that sort of travel. Sitting in a chair that long, driving to Huntsville just wouldn't have happened. ... I'm sure I would have been there. It's something I know. I would not have denied him that, but the accident kept me from being there. At some level, the universe was giving me the excuse for not being there. ... The universe was like, "Oh, you don't have to watch this." ... It would have been a horrible thing, but I'm sure I would have gone.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Long, Giving, Watches

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• I think after doing Push and Shove and having it not be successful, I lost a lot of confidence. Songwriting, for me, has always been traumatic, and I've always made all these excuses. But I've realized that you have to just accept that it was a gift: "I don't know where it came from, I don't know how I did it, but I did write all those songs, and I gotta do it again."

  Gwen Stefani

  Song, Writing, Successful

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.

  Malachy McCourt

  Disease, Said, Explanation

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I don't think every African-American or Latino have the same body type, but, yes, that's been one of the excuses ... saying that African-Americans are too muscular or just aren't lean enough. Usually they say, "Oh, they have flat feet so they just don't have the flexibility that it takes to create the line in a point shoe."

  Misty Copeland

  Thinking, Shoes, Feet

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• We [US government] have no fundamental disagreement with the Saudis - I mean, excuse me, with the Iraqis any more than we do with the Arab League, which we happen to support the position they're taking.

  Joe Biden

  Mean, Government, League

  "Transcript: Interview With Joe Biden". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.wbur.org. December 13, 2011.

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• The evidence from both approaches, statistical and experimental, does not appear sufficiently significant to me to warrant forsaking the pleasure of smoking. As a matter of fact, if the investigations had been pointed toward some material that I thoroughly dislike, such as parsnips, I still would not feel that evidence of the type presented constituted a reasonable excuse for eliminating the things from my diet. I will still continue to smoke, and if the tobacco companies cease manufacturing their product, I will revert to sweet fern and grape leaves.

  Harry S.N. Greene

  Sweet, Science, Smoking

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• Forgiveness doesn't excuse their actions. Forgiveness stops their actions from destroying your heart.

  Karen Salmansohn

  Heart, Action, Destroying

  FaceBook post by Karen Salmansohn from Dec 26, 2015

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• There is no more reason to accuse ourselves excessively of our failings than to excuse them overmuch. He who goes overboard in self-criticism often does so in order not to suffer others' criticisms, or else does so out of a kind of vanity that wishes to make others believe that he knows how to confess his faults.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Believe, Vanity, Self

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• It's remarkable she [Venus Williams] plays at all, given her Sjögren's syndrome [an autoimmune disorder that can cause joint pain]. She's back, winning tournaments. She didn't allow society to tell her, "You have this disease; you can't do that anymore." I look at her, like, "She's not playing at 100 percent. You are. You don't have excuses." Knowing what she went through helped me try to be a more positive person.

  Serena Williams

  Pain, Winning, Play

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I don't see any possible excuse for any driver anywhere to endanger people.

  Robert James Thomson

  People, Drivers

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• This is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for wobbling or self-doubt. But it is a moment for hope...

  Boris Johnson

  Self, Doubt, Moments

  "Boris Johnson is NOT running to be the next British prime minister — here are the candidates still in the running" by Adam Payne, uk.businessinsider.com. June 30, 2016.

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