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Ignorance of the law is not a valid excuse for accused criminals, and it cannot be an excuse for members of Congress.
I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!
Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.
This whole science thing of working out if players are a little bit tired just gives you an excuse to leave them out.
I have a daughter and she's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse to watch cartoons.
Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.
If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
If you dedicate yourself to something, you can achieve it. It's simple, but it's true, and your age is just an excuse.
Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
I started to model because I thought I could use it as an excuse to others, like, 'Yeah, I'm tall because I'm a model.'
We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.
And the dangerous thing about excuses is that if we recite them enough times, we actually come to believe they are true.
It seems there always something coming up for me during Masters week, but that's not an excuse to play good or bad golf.
There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.
Climate change is not an excuse to give the federal government ever more power over private property and state resources.
Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
Finding an excuse not to buy a brand can be just as enjoyable as finding an excuse to buy one. That, too, is human nature.
The British especially have no excuse for forgetting that empire is a most complex and persistent beast. And it has claws.
How do you know if your child is a writer? Your obstetrician holds his stethoscope to your abdomen and only hears excuses.
There's no excuse for the macro corruption, but Afghanistan was always an informal society with a weak central government.
All I wanted, even when I hated you most, was some poor, barren, parched excuse to love you. But you only gave me riddles.
In other words, governments do not collect taxes to provide services, they provide services as an excuse to collect taxes.
Weapons of mass destruction - nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons - are just that, and no cause can excuse their use.
I have a strong feeling that the subject of evolution is beautiful without the excuse of creationists needing to be bashed.
And learn to tie a bow - it's not difficult and there's no excuse for either a clip-on or the hideous Hollywood straight tie.
I think, traditionally, power is perceived as something that belongs to men and is an excuse to behave in a disempowered way.
I feel like acting's a really good excuse because I just get to pretend to do everything and then back out if I don't like it.
There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one's excuses.
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me.
Calls ignored, texts unanswered, short replies, excuses made. All I can say is don't be surprised when you're not in my future.
Never complain or make excuses. If something seems unfair, just prove yourself by working twice as hard and being twice as good.
Don't succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.
While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it
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.
In a world overloaded with information and content, there is simply no excuse for fans to be ill-informed about women's football.
Allyson Smith reminds me of a younger, prettier, funnier me. Now if you'll excuse me, the ladies from my bridge club have arrived.
It is quite wrong for party conferences to be used as an excuse for the Commons not to sit. Conferences could be held at weekends.
I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.
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.
I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.
Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
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.
I'm not a big fan of working out. Living in Los Angeles makes it much easier for me; I don't ever have an excuse not to be outside.
When you think about Kobe it's, 'No excuse. Nothing can put your mind off what you love to do.' It's the Mamba mentality, for sure.
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.
I always preach that you have to be active as a citizen no matter what, and some people just voting as an excuse not to do anything.
How far do you go in following orders? So many people use it as an excuse, right? 'I was following orders.' But what does that mean?
There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.