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• It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.

  Bobby Darin

  Practice, Singing, No Excuses

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• People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time.

  Mike Ditka

  Motivation, Winning, People

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• I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.

  Robert Duvall

  Punishment, Use, Pay

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• I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Birthday, Children, Party

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• Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Love, Thinking, Criminal Mind

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• I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Blessing, People, Boredom

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• If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Beauty, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.75, David R. Godine Publisher

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• We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  New Year, Philosophy, Failure

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• I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Excuse You, Play, Tennis

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• The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.

  Amit Abraham

  Heart, Mind, Reason

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• I'm not going to say that every record I've put out was the greatest record in history, but I'd stand by even the bad ones. Don't make excuses, make hits.

  Pete Waterman

  Records

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• If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.

  Robert Breault

  Who I Am, Given, Ifs

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• And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Littles, Faults

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.330

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• Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living.

  Bill Dixon

  Art, Tired, Years

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• If the fans want me out, I'll put my hands up and leave. Like a proper man. I won't make excuses, I'll leave.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Men, Hands Up, Fans

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• I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

  James Laughlin

  Thinking, Knowing, World

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• Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse.

  Cesar Romero

  Hollywood, World, Towns

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• Beauty is its own excuse.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Beauty

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.112

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• Bad excuses are worse than none.

  Thomas Fuller

  Motivation, Failure, Apology

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• Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Life, Failure

  Point Counter Point (1928) ch. 1

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• And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

  William Shakespeare

  Faults, Making Excuses

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.330

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• Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

  Thomas Szasz

  Revenge, Mistake, Inspiration

  The Second Sin (1973) "Social Relations"

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• If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Humanity, Literature, Becoming

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.32, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

  Russell Baker

  Peace, War, History

  Russell Baker (1992). “Poor Russell's almanac”

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• Don't make excuses, make good.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Sports, Failure, Commitment

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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