#excuses

And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing. ↗

— Octavia Butler

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Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#else #excuses #good #making #seldom

I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I try to make excuses for it, but the truth is I just wasn't with it. ↗

— Ace Frehley

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We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress. ↗

— David Frum

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The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#been #done #excuses #failures #greatest

We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#hear #make #men #need #their

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 #birthday party #children #excuses #got

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

#fans #hands #i #leave #like

Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore. ↗

— Frank Gehry

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