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I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

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'.

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.

I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.

People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time.

Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living.

Don't make excuses and Don't talk about it. Do it.

I had made a decision early on that we were going to do the right things and that if they worked we were going to be very successful. And if for some reason they didn't, all the claims and the protestations and the excuses wouldn't make any difference.

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

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.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

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

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.

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.

These thieves defend themselves by saying, 'I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.' Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered the number took off the shirt with the number hidden in a crowd.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.