Excuse Quotes - Page 24

• I never felt inspired to write this book [ I Had Brain Surgery, What's Your Excuse?], like I did with the cat or dog book; I felt compelled. At the time (May 1999), I was planning to write and illustrate an altogether different memoir, a book about my decision whether or not to have a baby.

  Suzy Becker

  Dog, Baby, Book

  Source: bookpage.com

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• People say human nature is a very vague expression, people tend to say human nature is corruptible anyway and it comes from a theological point of view, goes back to the Garden of Eden, that there is always this corrupt gene waiting to be activated that we inherited from the very beginning. I don't believe in that theological excuse.

  Wole Soyinka

  Believe, Garden, Views

  Source: saharareporters.com

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• I find personally that when I go to a place where I can't get in, I feel hostility from whatever it is, a hotel, a shop, a market, a street corner where there are no curb cuts, because somebody forgot to put them in, and where I have to go two blocks to the corner to do it. A lot of the excuses are, "Well, this is an old building." That's my favorite one. "This is an old building." It's as though 50 years ago, people with disabilities did not exist. As if the disabled are a new problem. It has always been a problem.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Block, Cutting, Years

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• When you're a victim, you automatically have a built-in excuse for failure. When you are a victim, it's always somebody else's fault. When you're a victim, success is not possible. When you are a victim of something, you are acknowledging that you are as far as you're gonna get, and you can't get any further, because there are more powerful forces arrayed against you than the force of yourself against it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Powerful, Faults, Victim

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Being a victim doesn't take much. There are built-in excuses for failure. Built-in excuses for being miserable. Built-in excuses for being angry all the time. No reason to trying to be happy; it's not possible. You're a victim. Victim of what? Well, you're a victim of derision. Well, you're a victim of America. You're a victim of America's past, or you're a victim of religion. You're a victim of bigotry, of homophobia, whatever. You're a victim of something. The Democrats got one for you. If you want to be a victim, call 'em up.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Past, America, Trying

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I still think of myself as a newspaper guy and you live by deadlines in the newspaper world, so, they don't really give you any excuses. At the paper they never say, "Well, we just won't have Tuesday's paper come out, we'll just bring Tuesday's paper out on Wednesday, so go ahead, take all the time you need." They come out with that paper regardless.

  Dave Barry

  Thinking, Giving, Tuesday

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• I went to Catholic school my entire life. Elementary school was probably my worst time - those are the years when you're figurin' out who you are, and then you've got the added pressure of being on the light-skinned side of things. I've been around - excuse me saying - predominantly white people in Catholic school, who sit around and just talk about black people because they thought they were in the presence of themselves, and they used to talk cool. I felt firsthand the racial prejudice that is still alive today.

  Kevin michael

  School, Light, Years

  Source: www.djbooth.net

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• Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  People, Be Prepared, Prepared

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• From the very beginning, I started preaching when I was 16 years old. So I began studying Scripture very seriously. I had done over a hundred revivals in Baptist churches before I was 20. So I am studying the Scripture as a kid and I'm noticing that Christians often wanted to excuse God from things that God doesn't need excusing from.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Kids, Years

  "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper - TRANSCRIPT" by Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.

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• Sometimes, if you ask people to "go downstairs and get me this or that," they'll say, "It's rainin" or "It might rain," or "There's some bumpy roads on the road," or bla-bla-bla. They give you all those excuses, so when they do something which is easy, you're supposed to say, "Damn, you did that?"

  Miles Davis

  Rain, Damn You, People

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• It was very difficult to go farther than that in the arguments with my father because he would always have a story or a justification to tell you, which I never considered valid because there is not an excuse for violence.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Father, Stories, Violence

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• One citizen, or a few, may be powerless if all the rest are determined to benefit from the imposition of unjust supranational rules. But this excuse cannot work for large numbers. Just imagine 10 million US citizens saying in unison: "I am just one powerless citizen. There is nothing I can do to change my government's policies!"

  Thomas Pogge

  Government, Numbers, Citizens

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We are pretty tough in saying for example if you've got unsecured debts and less than £25,000 that should not be an excuse for repossessing someone's home.That should not be allowed.You have got to help manage people through this process. I don't want to pretend that it is going to be easy getting out of Gordon Brown's hole.

  George Osborne

  Home, People, Example

  "The Big Interview Transcript: George Osborne". Interview With Martin Lewis, blog.moneysavingexpert.com. March 16, 2010.

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• If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.

  Chinua Achebe

  Leader, Groups, Reason

  Source: www.ehlingmedia.com

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• Once, a French journalist told me that all my films are the same. I said, 'Excuse me? I work hard to make them different.' What she meant was that in my films there is a character that faces insurmountable odds, and they overcome them. But I thought that might be true, but you need certain factors for drama, and you need to overcome them.

  Danny Boyle

  Drama, Hard Work, Character

  "Interview: Director Danny Boyle Goes Back to 'T2 Trainspotting'". HollywoodChicago.com Interview, www.hollywoodchicago.com. March 22, 2017.

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• You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for what goes down on your watch. You have no excuse if you are a conservative not to be concerned about the environment. You are equally responsible.

  Martin Sheen

  Responsibility, Watches, Culture

  Source: progressive.org

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• I want to make sense of things, to understand the world, but my work is never really instructional. I have no wisdom to impart or give, so I think my dream readers would be people who just use the book as an excuse to get into their own cycle of thoughts. The book is just like a map. It's just a jotting-down of things that you can interpret in your own ways.

  Sarnath Banerjee

  Dream, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Having total freedom to direct my own movies is more difficult than those I was hired for, where the framework has been already furnished. Unlike with my own work, I don't have to deny or feel embarrassed at the straightforwardness or orthodoxy of the directorial style, because I can say in excuse, "This is how I was asked to direct by those people."

  Takeshi Kitano

  People, Style, Orthodoxy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Sorry, I didn't squat and grease myself and be naked next to Kim Lard-ashian. I mean, no matter what you do - excuse me - you can never compete with her. You can win the Nobel Peace Prize and you can't compete with Kim Lard-ashian's ass.

  Judy Tenuta

  Sorry, Mean, Winning

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• It's unfortunate that some people do not see what entertainers do in the background, but many of us do so much work with causes. You know some people have chewed me out, saying things like, "Oh why could you post pictures in your dresses and meanwhile they killing black men on the street?" I'm thinking, excuse me do you know what I did today? Do you know what I'm doing right now while I'm reading this post? So I think a lot of celebrities get a bad rap because people see the surface.

  Tichina Arnold

  Rap, Reading, Men

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• What this ideology, what this myth about savagery did was really excuse America for the disappearance of the Indian. It wasn't our fault. They were just an inferior race. And so John Marshall adopts that. And the tragedy and the present-day circumstances of that decision are that those racial attitudes are so deeply embedded in these foundational principles of American Indian law.

  Robert A. Williams, Jr.

  Attitude, Decision, Tragedy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I so wreak of logic and commonsense that it is obviously very refreshing in this world of otherwise soulless politically correct denial and dishonesty. God knows America would be the greatest again if she operated like the Nugent family. No takers, no whiners, no gangsters, no dopers, no drunks, no criminals, no bloodsuckers, no excuse makers, no crybabies, no punks, no Obama supporters. My entire team are dedicated to be the absolute best that we can be and as productive as humanly possible. Wouldn't that be great if all of America were like that.

  Ted Nugent

  Team, Denial, World

  Source: www.classicrockmusicwriter.com

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• The best apology, I think, was from my husband, Steve, who slept with a close friend of mine decades back, when we were committed to being life partners but not yet married. And many of the factors that made Steve's apology so healing are universal. One important thing is that he confessed to the affair, rather than my discovering it. He looked deeply into his own history in terms of why this happened, but he never used that history as an excuse.

  Harriet Lerner

  Husband, Healing, Apology

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I'm all in favor of being able to imagine new frontiers with the aid of technologies, but I want a more compassionate approach that also recognizes that every time you're talking about new frontiers, there will be certain kinds of costs attached. There will be people who don't quite understand how to handle email who will decide to have private servers and then not know how to excuse themselves when it may be something as simple-minded as they were a little too far along in their lives to really figure out how to go back and forth between two different accounts.

  Sheila Jasanoff

  Technology, People, Different

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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  When your mind is focused and made up you don't make excuses. You try. If you fail you try again.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Mind, Trying, Failing

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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