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• It's not a matter of how well can you make a movie. It's how well can you make it under the circumstance, because there's always circumstances. You cannot use that as an excuse.

  George Lucas

  Use, Matter, Circumstances

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• Writing is the main gig and teaching and performing are sidelines, an excuse for not writing more. Working on a novel and on an opera make me seriously want to retire and find a volunteer job as a docent at the zoo explaining to schoolchildren where frogs go in the winter.

  Garrison Keillor

  Jobs, Zoos, Teaching

  Source: jonathanlowe.wordpress.com

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• Everyone has ideas. The first step is to learn more about your industry than anyone in the world. Otherwise there is a good chance that the lady that knows it better than you is going to kick your ass. Then you just have to go for it. No excuses. Just work your ass off.

  Mark Cuban

  Ideas, Firsts, Steps

  Interview with Ryan Babikian, elitedaily.com. May 30, 2012.

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• "Going with the flow" is for some people an excuse for not taking action and it refers usually to one's life situation.

  Eckhart Tolle

  People, Going With The Flow, Action

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• Then there was the man who declared in court, he wasn't a person. "Excuse me, sir, why haven't you paid your taxes." "Well, as you can clearly see, I am not a person." "Well, you look like a person." "No it's all done with mirrors, trust me!"

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Humor, Men

  "Taxed Beyond Belief". Documentary, Comedy, 2002.

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• We're allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.

  Adam Savage

  Urban Legends, World, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In the past, foreign intervention was obviously a major problem. Foreign domination, or if not domination, interference. But that has ended. There is no foreign domination; there is minimal foreign interference. The Cold War has ended. The Soviet Union no longer exists. The United States is showing minimal and diminishing interest in the Muslim world. They now have to confront their own problems. The old excuses are gone. The old justifications are gone and therefore the anger of people is turning increasingly against their own rulers.

  Bernard Lewis

  War, Past, People

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• Don't accept the excuse of complexity.

  Keith Rabois

  Accepting, Complexity

  "Lecture 14: How to Operate". Keith Rabois' "How To Start a Startup" lecture to the class at Stanford University in Stanford, California, genius.com. November 6, 2014.

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• If you have to do with one who is unquestionably a slanderer, do not excuse him by calling him frank and free-spoken; do not call one who is notoriously vain, liberal and elegant; do not call dangerous levities mere simplicity; do not screen disobedience under the name of zeal; or arrogance, of frankness; or evil intimacy, of friendship. No, my friends, we must never, in our wish to shun slander, foster or flatter vice in others: but we must call evil evil, and sin sin, and so doing we shall serve God's glory.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Names, Evil, Simplicity

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.279, Catholic Way Publishing

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• However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance - so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature.

  Graham Greene

  Suicide, Suicidal, Men

  "The Comedians". Book by Graham Greene. Part 1, Chapter 4, Section 1, 1966.

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• Exercising during the cold and flu season will help people stay in shape, and most likely fight off colds or reduce the number of days a person is ill. The cold season should not be an excuse for the average person to refrain from exercising - working out at the gym, a brisk walk in the park or a jog through the neighborhood.

  Michael Flynn

  Exercise, Fighting, Average

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• There is no excuse for a professional footballer not to be 100% fit.

  Jock Stein

  No Excuses, Fit, Footballer

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• Excuse me while I light my spliff, Good God I gotta take a lift, From reality I just cant drift, That's why I'm staying with this riff

  Bob Marley

  Marijuana, Reality, Light

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• When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.

  Robert Townsend

  Leadership, Failure, People

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• So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.

  Pliny the Younger

  Produce, Reader, Heard

  Pliny (the Younger.), Betty Radice (1969). “Letters and Panegyricus [of] Pliny”, Heinemann ; Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press

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• We are capable of creating miracles ourselves and the greatest miracle is to create a masterpiece of joy out of your life with no excuses. The thing I focus on is going straight to heart. I go to mine first because if I don't feel it, you're not going to feel it. I take a deep breath and remind myself that before I give it to you I have to give it to myself.

  Carlos Santana

  Heart, Creating, Giving

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• Fun... human nature... does no one any harm... Regular as clockwork the old excuses came back into the alert, sad and dissatisfied brain--nothing ever matched the deep excitement of the regular desire. Men always failed you when it came to the act. She might just as well have been to the pictures.

  Graham Greene

  Fun, Men, Brain

  Graham Greene (1970). “The Collected Edition: Brighton rock”

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• Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.

  Og Mandino

  Gossip, Scratches, Tongue

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.51, Bantam

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• I suppose the human race is doing the best it can but hells bells thats only an explanation its not an excuse.

  Don Marquis

  Race, Bells, Hell

  Don Marquis (1935). “Archy does his part”

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• In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke.

  Scott Thompson

  Thinking, Speaks French, Giving

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• There is nothing as powerful as a made up mind. Do not give yourself another excuse to put off making up your mind. You know in your heart of hearts that once you do that you have got to act.
  You owe it to the world, your family and most importantly, to yourself to live a life of no regrets. Stop worrying about what other people will think, say, or do. You only have one life. LIVE IT now. You have GREATNESS within you!!

  Les Brown

  Powerful, Regret, Heart

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• Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.

  John Locke

  Fashion, Expression, Suffering

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.10

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• Hoping and Wishing are excuses for not Doing.

  Robert Anthony

  Wish

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• Excuses are your lack of faith in your own power.

  Robert Anthony

  Lack Of Faith

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• Women wanted to be viewed as equals to men. So men were like, 'You wanna be viewed as equal to me, then open your own damn door.' But I still don't view it as an excuse to be an a**hole.

  Ne-Yo

  Men, Doors, Views

  "A Blogger & A Gentleman: Buzzworthy Goes Backstage With Ne-Yo". Interview with Tamar Anitai, www.mtv.com. June 11, 2008.

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