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Up here, it seems every town needs their own niche, or what gives them their excuse to have their party each year, ... For right now, this rodeo has tied this community together. And in August, Pembina has its party.

Tradition can be an excuse for staying the same, or for changing.

To use that as an excuse to scuttle the program would undermine the integrity and security of the country.

We didn't play near our capabilities. It's a bad excuse, but we don't seem to play well late at night (it was a 9 p.m. game). Basically, we got our rear ends kicked. We left people open in front of the net, and they beat us up physically.

We didn't play. None of us. That's embarrassing. Our front-line guys didn't compete with their bench. There was no excuse for our performance. I gave the guys (Thursday) off because of the upcoming schedule and I shouldn't have. As bad as we played, Denver should have beaten us by 50 and they didn't.

We admit that there is a problem ... But sometimes business uses skills shortage as an excuse not to invest.

We had some mental collapses in the third. There's no excuse for that. We let a game slip by.

Busyness is not a reason for not getting other things done. It is an excuse for not claiming your true priorities.

We plan to find out if these major league sports are going to do anything. If they give us the excuse that they're tied in to collective bargaining agreements and they can't do anything, ... then it's up to Congress to change it and make it the law of the land.

The penalties we took, some undisciplined, there's really no excuse,

The Pennsylvania senate bill is the most comprehensive legislation in the country. It slams the door on runaway eminent domain abuse and completely redefines the overly permissive definition of 'blight' that has been repeatedly used as an excuse to take property from one private citizen and give it to another private citizen.

We've got no excuses ? we just have to remember that we are a better team than that.

We were a little leg-tired. That's not an excuse. We should have overcome that.

We stayed 30 minutes in the corridor, ... We were then put in two small rooms with stewards smoking cigarettes next to us and (radio station) NRJ conducting interviews 10 meters away. It's not an excuse (for the defeat), but it's very annoying.

We are missing a couple of guys right now. That's not an excuse, because we have guys who can fill those roles. That's what I tried to do.

2004 has to be my year. No more excuses.

I'm not a rookie anymore-no more excuses about being young.

a great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness.

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

One of the things I've always thought is a drag in so many period adaptations is that they are always buttoned up to the neck in so many clothes all the time. I'm always looking for excuses to get them out of their clothes.

Anger is its own excuse and its own reward ...

Never complain or make excuses. If something seems unfair, just prove yourself by working twice as hard and being twice as good.

All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.

Don´t hesitate or allow yourself to make excuses. Just get out and do it. Just get out and do it. You will be very, very glad that you did.

There has always been excuses for wars, but NONE of them have been good or valid.

I learned that if I ever claim sexual harassment, I will be confronted with every bozo I once dated, every women I once impressedas snotty and superior, and together they will provide a convenient excuse to disbelieve me.

Good excuses rarely collect dust. We use them, and use them, and use them.

The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are—without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are.

The IRA have nowhere to go. I've stripped away all their excuses, one by one.

Excuse me, but aren't boys forbidden on this floor?' Macey said on our way to the suite. 'That's the advantage of being the only boy,' he (Zach) said. 'No one actually comes right out and makes rules like that.

The only legitimate excuse you could have for having a baby in those dire, war torn, famine struck conditions - would be to eat it.

So she was on her own, Kate thought, and instilled all the friendly helpfulness she could into her next question. “Excuse me, but are you the bad company young Mr. Scott has got into?

Injuries are injuries, everybody has them. You play with it. I don't make excuses.

Love's an excuse to get hurt.

Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt. Do you like to hurt? I do, I do then hurt me.

whose ideology leads him to excuse violence against other Americans.

While overall sentiment is positive and fund flow remains strong, the sharp rise in oil prices overnight and interest rate fears gave investors an excuse to sell.

We don't make any excuses. We need to go play and get better and learn from our mistakes.

We can't make excuses. People just need to step up and play their role. Injuries aren't a factor. We were prepared this week and we just didn't come out and execute.

We can't use it as an excuse. We have to be tough enough to overcome that (the games are on the road).

We can't use that as an excuse any more.

We don't want to give the authorities any excuse for violence.

We will go into this season with a great motivation, great humility and also a great determination to get back to the top. We have the team, we have the means and we have the drivers, so there is no excuse not to return to where we were, and this will be our aim.

There comes a point in time when youth can't be used as an excuse for why we can't do something or get a win,

There is absolutely no excuse for the disgraceful scenes in Dublin today. It is the essence of Irish democracy and republicanism that people are allowed to express their views freely and in a peaceful manner.

There is a choice. There is no excuse for giving up on Britain. We are surrendering to the European Union our ability to run our own affairs.

There becomes a point in time you can only use that excuse for so long. We are getting very sick and tired of it. It is time to play like we know we can. This can be a very good team.

We shouldn't need another wake-up call. We believe that the terrorists will strike again; so does every responsible expert that we have talked to. And if they do, and these reforms that might have prevented such an attack have not been implemented, what will our excuse be?

When are we going to stop making excuses for the terrorists and saying that somebody is making them do it? No, these are simply evil people who want to kill.

Christmas is a good excuse to eat everything.

You don't have to make excuses for God.

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.

The only excuse for being broke is being in Jail.

My excuse for everything is that I grew up in Florida.

Too much research can be the writer's enemy. You can spend days on end in the British Library or prowling the streets with a Dictaphone, and it's easy to convince yourself that you're working hard. Often, it can be an excuse not to work; a classic displacement activity.

We have no excuse for how we played. (Leonard) had to play in the rain, too. We just lacked the knockout punch.

We have no excuse to not get back to where we were at or even better. I think the competition will be greater from now on because of the stretch drive. Some teams are going to try to secure playoff spots. Some teams are going to try to get back in the mix. Some teams, like us, are trying to stay alive and move up with the big guys.

We were anything but nervous. They are a loose group. Maybe they're too loose. And we were healthy. No excuses for our play tonight.

We have to get it done, that's no excuse.

We have to get it right but not find an excuse to act at all.

We've got every excuse for why things shouldn't be going right for us, but we refuse to use them. Our kids think we have the best gym going, and one thing about it: It's ours.

Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again.

There goes another excuse to not exercise that we can't use anymore ... What's left? I think all the myths about what's bad about exercise have now been debunked. There are no more excuses. Exercise is good for our general health, and if we know what's good for us, we should get out there and exercise.

I'm not really in the excuse business.

We never use the condition of the footballs as an excuse. We play with whatever or kick with whatever we have to use and that's the way it is.

It is appalling to make Jesus out of food! Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go bake some communion wafers.

Fixable but unfixed bad performance is bad character and tends to create more of itself, causing more damage to the excuse giver with each tolerated instance.

Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies.

Make choices-not excuses.

An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.

You can have results or excuses. Not both.

Yeah I got a question: Any more excuses tonight, Roy?

Got any excuses tonight Roy?

There is no longer any excuse for not adopting corporate IM. But businesses should establish policies for connecting with external parties, to ensure public IM services are used for real business purposes.

Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.

We're going to have every 'i' dotted and every 't' crossed. They're going to look for any excuse to throw out any signatures, so we think we're going to have more than enough.

We're flush with revenue and there's no economic crisis. I can't imagine their excuse for not fully funding these programs this year.

We're not a great free-throw shooting team. But there was no excuse today.

The perfect guest again. I wondered why they're going to pick us to retire Al MacInnis' jersey. There's no excuse for not having everybody ready to play and we end up being the perfect guest for what ends up being a crucial game for us.

We stand by the constitution. The pause for reflection is not an excuse for putting it aside,

We started backed up, and you call plays a little different. You run plays a little different. But that's no excuse. We have to find ways to move the football and come out with the same aggressiveness that we had in the first half. I think we did that. I just think Atlanta came out and they changed up a few things, they did some different things that broke our flow, and they made some plays. Now we have to find a way to respond.

When you want to stop something you'll find every excuse you can to question it, but what are the alternatives (to Yucca Mountain)? ... Nobody is coming up with any realistic or valuable alternatives.

Where it seems to me we're heading is real transformational change in assessment practices, ... If we get this to work right, it would be about maintaining accurate property values, not an excuse to raise taxes.

It's just a big excuse to say awful things.

We're not going to make any excuses. We outplayed them for two periods and held them to nine shots (in that stretch). Then for whatever reason, we let them back in the game in the third.

We started the game touching the ball nicely. The first eight to 10 minutes we were in their box four times, and we didn't have a player that wanted to put one away. We didn't have the mentality to put the ball away, and there is no excuse for that.

Very angry, there is no excuse for this.

We knew what we were getting into when we got here. I'm not gonna use it as an excuse. We just have to play the best we can with who we have.

Earlier this year, home-builder stocks were going up like Superman. Today's drop in the home sales report provided a good excuse for managers to finally sell those stocks and lock in some profits.

Eddie played good but with the position we were in there was no excuse for us not to have two points at the end of it. It was a bad result, to give up a short-handed goal and to not score on a 5-on-3.

At minimum, there are some serious questions how seriously they were trying to get that lease extended. Del Monte is unfortunately using that as an excuse to bug out of this market. We're very disappointed at how this has come about.

Being up in Philly, and going to four straight championship games, I played some of the worst schedules you can imagine. But it is what it is. We just take one game at a time. That's not an excuse to give away a ball game you should win.

Cover stories are an almost inevitable part of every improper relationship between two human beings, ... Now to say that is not to excuse it or to exonerate it or justify it, but rather to emphasize the testimony about 'visiting Betty' or 'bringing me letters' is in the record, but it is not linked in any way to the December 17 phone call or to any testimony or affidavit with regards to the Jones case.

was driven by pure hatred. There is no excuse for what he did.

Violent crimes will not be tolerated and just because you're a young age, is no excuse do an adult act, do adult act, you face adult consequences.

When you need an excuse any excuse will do.