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Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses.
I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.
I don't feel my best right now, but at the same time, I'm not trying to find any excuses or anything.
I can think of many reasonable excuses for needing a cocktail, but Cinco De Mayo is always a no-brainer.
Most of the time, we keep looking outside and feeling sad about what others have. Those are mere excuses.
Being a big guy, you face certain challenges. Over time, though, women found excuses to find me attractive.
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.
Teach your children early not to pass the blame or make excuses, but to take responsibility for their actions.
I refuse to allow the excuses in my mind to grow into giants that keep me from living up to my full potential.
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.
I don't need to beat Faber, because his ego will always beat him. He's got excuses for every loss he's ever had.
It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.
You can blame outside factors or make excuses about why things didn't work out, but that doesn't change anything.
Whenever there is a big difficulty, I don't make excuses. Instead, I say I will solve it even if everybody leaves.
It is very challenging to adapt to life at a big club like Madrid, but I'm not the kind of person to make excuses.
Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
There will always be excuses, arguments, and questions of timing when moving on difficult and controversial issues.
Whatever excuses I can make to you about playing so many games, there is no point - the point is we have many games.
Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.
Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.
Buying a home today is a complex process, but that in no way excuses home buyers from their obligation for due diligence.
Everyone knows what crappy food is: high grease, high fat... or what clean eating is. They just make excuses not to do it.
Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.
I come up with the silliest excuses when it's time to work out. I'll be like, 'Oh no! Now I have to go and find some socks.'
We all do things where we don't care about other people. And we deal with it in whatever ways we can, denial or make excuses.
Two of our favorite excuses for holding onto a few extra pounds and being out of shape: Too little time and too little money.
Failure is an awful thing, and when I look at the common denominator of failure, it seems to always be the same thing: excuses.
I recall the first time my agent told me to wear clothes specifically chosen for me, I would try and find excuses not to do it.
Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'.
You can make a million excuses for why something didn't go well, but ultimately, just fix it and get on with it. Be a solutions person.
Award shows in general are just lame excuses to stroke the egos of millionaires, but the 'ESPY's' are an especially embarrassing example.
All the excuses that people in power used to make for not telling diverse stories or including diverse people, they've proven to be false.
I have everything in my house organized to an unnecessary T, and I love it! The only downside: I have no excuses for losing my to-do lists.
Politics as a parent is fairly demanding; if your parent is in politics, it's fairly demanding, so I make no excuses about taking two weeks off.
I truly feel the best doctors are ones who are criticized by nurses, patients and family. They do not make excuses and learn from their mistakes.
As soon as I step on the court 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.
No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.
We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.
If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look at how the world is changing.
I'm not a sympathetic guy when I see people throwing their lives away and using their life's obstacles as excuses to fail. I just don't buy into that.
Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.
It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.
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.
If you make excuses, you're going to believe in a lie. And I don't believe in that lie that you can't make it, that somebody is trying to hold you back.
We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
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.
Talent is not enough. It's a mental game. You have to deal with frustration when you don't play, you have to deal with the pressure. There are no excuses.
Being honest with myself is something I like. I am happy that I don't make excuses when I make a mistake. This is a good way to improve in the fastest way.
I think as you make mistakes, the No. 1 thing you've got to do is learn from them and not just make excuses for them. I've made more than anybody, probably.
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.