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Love's an excuse to get hurt.


Conor Oberst
Tags: Get Love Hurt
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God's only excuse is that he does not exist.


Stendhal
Tags: God Only He
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.


Michael Caine
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.


Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Tags: War Only State
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Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime.


Jimmy Cannon
Tags: Me Always Been
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A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.


Gertrude Stein
Tags: Failure Need Real
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The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.


Shirin Ebadi
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You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself.


Camille Claudel
Tags: Work You Me
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Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.


John Malkovich
Tags: Great You Doing
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There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.


Nina Simone
Tags: People Who Were
The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.
Alan Dershowitz
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Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it's like an excuse for Halloween every day.


Gwen Stefani
Tags: You Like Want
Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.
Charles Lederer
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
Jules Renard
Tags: Who Really Only
Islamic terrorists do not need an excuse to attack the United States. To attack us is what they do; they attack us for what we are.
Tom Cotton
Tags: Us Need States
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It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.


Charles Studd
Tags: Will Make Man
I have a daughter and she's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse to watch cartoons.
Mike Dirnt
Tags: Good Me Thing
Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
Bertrand Russell
Tags: Been Our Love
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
Tags: You Wanted Show
Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.
Tony Robbins
Tags: Change Power You
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
Tags: Good Poetry About
The truest form of any form of revolutionary Left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, & Ginsberg's period. Excuse me, but that's where it was at.
David Bowie
Tags: You Me Want
I'm really shy with my acting when it's off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just feel like an idiot.
Brendan Fehr
Tags: Me Like Just
Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations.
Mitt Romney
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
Hannah Arendt
Tags: Best Very Where
When you have an accident, they will save their own people, and those who have worked with you or with the NGOs are left. Unfortunately, this happens always. It is not an excuse at all.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Tags: You People Who
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Tags: Always Had Will
When I'm in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise!
David Blunkett
Tags: Good Me Because
He 's ruthless only because of his ideals. Unfortunately he doesn't succeed. The thing fails and gets out of hand and takes charge of him. Idealism is the only excuse he could have and it's a great excuse.
Terence Fisher
Tags: Great Because Out
There are a lot of young players here right now, and these guys are going to eventually learn as they go. Next year we can't use that as an excuse that we had so many young players on the team.
Jerry Rice
Tags: Had Go Going
I think there's a preoccupation with the American market to make excuses and justify its past. If it isn't current, it means somebody has to make an excuse for it. If it's 'cult,' it gives it a sense of illegitimate legitimacy.
Leon Redbone
One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.
Adam Rapp
Tags: Great You People
The haters and the trolls have always used me as an excuse to make fun of something that is out of the ordinary, something that doesn't necessarily make sense to them. For whatever reason, I have always been a target that people love to attack.
Steve Aoki
Tags: People Me Out
I love research. Sometimes I think writing novels is just an excuse to allow myself this leisurely time of getting to know a period and reading its books and watching its films. I see it as a real treat.
Sarah Waters
Tags: Time Think Just
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Bette Davis
Tags: Good Truth You
I had to stop traveling alone because I missed so many planes. When somebody runs up to you in the airport and begins to tell you their life story, you can't say, 'Excuse me, boo,' as they're weeping on your bosom.
Iyanla Vanzant
Tags: Alone You Me
Though I thoroughly enjoyed playing crime branch officer Gautam Savant, it drained a lot out of me, too. It shook my faith in myself, as I explored my hidden side and wondered if I was just acting or using the character as an excuse to vent my mean side.
Randeep Hooda
Tags: Faith Me Just
I don't hate children. My wife and I just didn't think we would be good parents, and also by the time we got married in 1968, we were pretty nose-down toward what we wanted to do, and having a child was going to be an excuse to fail.
Richard Ford
Tags: Time Good Think
'Green' cannot be allowed to become an excuse for stealth taxes. And nor should 'green taxes' be about punishment. Instead, they should represent a switch of emphasis. So if domestic flights are taxed, it should be on the absolute condition that the money is ploughed into improving the alternatives, such as trains.
Zac Goldsmith
Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.
Ani DiFranco
Tags: You Like Just