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• There are days where I've lost weight and I feel bigger or fatter or uglier and I want to just hibernate. I'll find every excuse not to exercise. I hate it.

  Carnie Wilson

  Hate, Exercise, Weight

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• I've always felt that feminism was just an excuse for ugly women to march.

  Larry Flynt

  Feminism, Ugly, March

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• The days of looking the other way while despotic regimes trample human rights, rob their nations' wealth, and then excuse their failings by feeding their people a steady diet of anti-Western hatred are over.

  Dick Cheney

  Rights, People, Hatred

  2004 Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, 24 Jan.

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• I'm interested in everything about what it means to be a human being, so every role is an excuse to delve into a different way of life, a different socio-economic background, and a different tragic or comedic circumstance.

  Rachelle Lefevre

  Mean, Different, Roles

  Source: collider.com

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• I know of no civilization that tolerates or justifies violence, terrorism, or injustice. There is no civilization that justifies the killing of innocent people. Those who are invoking cultural relativism are really using that as an excuse for violating human rights and to put a cultural mask on the face of what they're doing.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Rights, Civilization, People

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. September 1, 2004.

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• I have never agreed with President Bush's argument regarding the axis of evil. Unfortunately, fundamentalists in Iran have used this as an excuse to brand us as allies of Mr. Bush.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Axes, Iran, Evil

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 2, 2004.

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• I don't speak French, but I took it for five years growing up. So, if I were in a situation where I had to be, like, 'Excuse me, pineapple dog house red, what time is it library?' - no problem.

  Eugene Mirman

  Dog, Growing Up, Years

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• The kids didn't call me Amy Schumer; they called me Amy Jewmer. One summer, I'll never forget this, all the kids took turns throwing handfuls of pennies at me. I know, I was like, 'Excuse me - this is awesome!

  Amy Schumer

  Summer, Kids, Amy

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• I'm going to live until I die, and everything in between is just another excuse to eat peanut butter.

  Dana Gould

  Peanut Butter, Peanuts, Dies

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• Same reason why young women on juries are not a good idea, they don't get it. They're not in that same life experience of paying the bills, doing the mortgage, kids, community, crime, education and health care. They're like healthy and hot and running around without a care in the world... I just think, excuse them, so they can go back on Tinder and Match.com.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Running, Kids, Thinking

  "Fox News' Kimberly Guilfoyle Caught in Controversy After Comments About Tinder, Young Women Voters" by Lorena O'Neil, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 23, 2014.

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• I'm really, really, really, really conservative with money. I got to give myself a lot of excuses to spend money, because I come from nothin'.

  Joell Ortiz

  Giving, Conservative

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• In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.

  William Faulkner

  Artist, Europe, America

  William Faulkner (2006). “Novels, 1926-1929”

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• The only thing an excuse gives you is an option out of the life you'd like to live.

  Wayne Dyer

  Giving

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits”, p.81, Hay House, Inc

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• I used to always sit in church looking out the windows at the boys, wondering if I could make an excuse to go out and, you know, go to the bathroom because all the outdoor toilets. But anyhow, I was only going out to see the boys.

  Dolly Parton

  Boys, Church, Going Out

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• Shut up and write anyway. Don't use anything as an excuse.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Use, Shut Up

  Natalie Goldberg (1990). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life”, Bantam

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• Contrasting British servicemen and women with the appeasers, it is hard not to laugh. Are these two sides even the same species, let alone the same nationality? On one hand the selflessness and internationalism of the soldiers; on the other the Whites-First isolationism of the protesters. Excuse me, who are the idealists here?

  Julie Burchill

  Hands, Two Sides, Laughing

  "Don't take my name in vain" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2013.

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• My excuse for not lecturing against the use of tobacco is, that I never chewed it; that is a penalty which reformed tobacco-chewers have to pay; though there are things enough I have chewed which I could lecture against.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reform, Use, Pay

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.54, Graphic Arts Books

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• I would jump into the middle of the street and say, "excuse me, there's a Mercedes that's got to get through here." And I would push people out of the way, "get out of the way! Let him through!" Smacking their cars and stuff. Just like, "whack" and you just jump into it.

  Bill Murray

  People, Car, Stuff

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• We can and should seize upon the energy crisis as a good excuse and great opportunity for making some very fundamental changes that we should be making anyhow for other reasons.

  Russell E. Train

  Opportunity, Environmental, Energy

  "Letters", www.nytimes.com. February 18, 1979.

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• I don't see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, 'I'ma do that,' and they do it. That's it. There's no scientifical process.

  Kevin Hart

  People, Want, Process

  "Interview: Kevin Hart Talks 'About Last Night,' Being the 'It Guy,' and More (Opens Tomorrow)" by Jai Tiggett, www.indiewire.com. February 13, 2014.

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• Necessity is our quickest excuse.

  Benjamin Franklin

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• There is another consequence of any belief in a single god, and that is that it is a very good excuse for people to behave very badly.

  Philip Pullman

  People, Belief, Very Good

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• Excuse me while I go bleach my face.

  Elle Casey

  Bleach, Faces, Excuse Me

  Elle Casey (2012). “Apocalypsis: Book 1 (Kahayatle)”, p.104, Elle Casey

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• The moment you believe your own crap and excuses, you fail.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Believe, Excuse You, Failing

  Twitter post from Jul 31, 2013

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• Being in a rock band is just an excuse not to get a job

  Billy Corgan

  Jobs, Rocks, Band

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