Success for open source is when the term ‘open source’ becomes a non-factor in the decision making process, when people hear about Linux and compare it to Windows NT, and they compare it on the feature set and don’t have much of an excuse not to use it.
I don’t wear bright orange clothes or leopard skin boots, but it was really good fun to play someone that does and have an excuse too!
Any excuse to get away from the computer screen is welcome.
I love any excuse to come to New York – when it’s not February.
In the creative community, there’s no excuse for not making a more equitable environment.
There can be a conspiracy, but the presence of a conspiracy is actually not an excuse for conspiracy thinking.
Sometimes a team loses a Copa tie and suddenly the competition is downplayed. It’s not a good excuse to say that the Copa has no merit.
Simply being a guest on David Letterman’s show has been a highlight of my career. I never dreamed that I would follow in his footsteps, though everyone in late night follows Dave’s lead. I’m thrilled and grateful that CBS chose me. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go grind a gap in my front teeth.
If companies can refuse to provide coverage for women, what other objections to the Affordable Care Act will we see based on ‘religious grounds’? For that matter, will ‘religious freedom’ be used as an excuse to discriminate against other minorities and disenfranchised groups across the board? Where will it end?
It takes a real man to make a true confession – a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.
I’m really just looking for an excuse to get in shape, so if someone could send me a role for a superhero movie, I’ll get in shape, then you can just give it to someone else.
Cancer’s like the ultimate excuse. Who’s gonna say, ‘Oh, no, you have to show up for this one?’ ‘Hey, I got cancer. I can’t be there.’ It’s the ultimate eraser.
I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.
I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime.
However, don’t let perfectionism become an excuse for never getting started.
If I didn’t feel that I was doing something or trying to do something for others, then I would have very little excuse for the life that I lead.
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
What we usually do to great men and women is relegate them to homogenised heroism. Their words and actions become soundbites and images in a way that gives us an excuse not to act bravely in our own lives.
When you get told that you have a disease, it’s like: ‘Really? Nah, it’s all right. I don’t believe that. It must be something else, I’m just making an excuse, let me push harder.’
Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
When we forgive someone, it doesn’t excuse their actions; it frees us from our own chronic stress and suffering, so it’s in our own self-interest.
I think, so many times in society, women are expected to behave a certain way. You are raised to say ‘sorry’ and ‘excuse me’, and get out of the way.
A second-choice goalkeeper can sometimes say: ‘Oh, it’s a lack of games, it’s different when you train compared to when you play.’ But there is no excuse if you do everything right.
There’s no excuse to give up the hand you’re dealt. You’ve just got to keep fighting and make something positive out of it.
To all you men out there who want to use turning the other cheek as an excuse for your weakness… man up! Develop yourself to the point that you are powerful enough to face any conflict in your life head on and without trouble. Then, use your newfound confidence to avoid the conflict.
I collect watches because I’m always late, and I need to know exactly how late I’m going to be – in order to come up with a good excuse.
Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything. Once you say the character is in love, he can do the craziest thing that nobody would do who’s not in love. Once you’re in love, you have that excuse to go and do whatever you want.
If you dedicate yourself to something, you can achieve it. It’s simple, but it’s true, and your age is just an excuse.
We know the costs of failure. There is now no excuse for government – at any level – not to invest in a safer, fairer future for our cities.
Terrorists need no excuse to attack us here. They’ve shown that for decades and decades. We should be proud for the way we treated these savages at Guantanamo Bay and the way our soldiers conduct themselves all around the world to include the people doing the very hard work at Guantanamo Bay.
In fact, everybody should wake up smelling nice. I go further, there is not an excuse, ever, not to smell nice, particularly your feet.
Southwest Detroit has been through hell (excuse my directness) with Matty Moroun, his Bridge Company, and all his fancy-named subsidiaries. From blighted homes that my boys have to walk by to allowing his trucks to rumble down our residential streets, passing our parks, schools, and homes – we have had it.
One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.
I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy.
I wear football socks and I actually tape my shoelaces to my socks. I don’t like anything to be putting me off. I don’t have an excuse of the shoelaces coming off.
There is no excuse for perjury – never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.
Climate change is not an excuse to silence political speech.
I think I do have a sort of terrible propensity for boredom and for being bored, even though I am absolutely of the opinion that one shouldn’t be bored and that there is no excuse for it and that it is a personal failing.
Excuse my voice – I don’t have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.
