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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character. -- Taryn Manning
All religions accept that there is something called 'criminality.' And criminality cannot be excused by religious fervour. -- Wole Soyinka
I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems. -- Ben Bradlee
A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so. -- John Norman
An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency. -- Edward Snowden
If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward. -- Theodor Adorno
No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist. -- Dennis Prager
Actors are excused from a lot of things, and we get away with a lot... I find it equally interesting and exciting as it is disgusting and bizarre. -- Joel Edgerton
We could talk, act, and dress funny. We were excused for socially inappropriate behavior: 'Oh, he's a programmer'. It was all because we knew this technology stuff that other people found completely mystifying. -- Kent Beck
I did not see any major issues other than the jury substitutions. I can't know whether there's a problem there, until I read the transcript from the in-chambers conference, when those jurors were excused. -- Catherine Crier
But if, on the other hand, we should be justified in rejecting it, if there testified on oath, then, supposing our rules of evidence to be sound, we may be excused if we hesitate elsewhere to give it credence. -- Simon Greenleaf
The wrongful arrest of tens of thousands of British Muslims after the September 11 attacks can be explained by the very poor intelligence the police had, and, just possibly, excused by the fact that a terrorist action in Britain linked to British Muslims would have been hugely damaging. -- Geoff Mulgan
We are all busy. It's easy to find excuses for not reaching out to others, but I imagine they will sound as hollow to our Heavenly Father as the elementary school boy who gave his teacher a note asking that he be excused from school March 30th through the 34th. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
The show originally started out as a ten hour mini-series. We shot two hours and then were excused for a while, for no apparent reason. Things went very quiet for a time and then a few months later we were called back and told that it was going to be a full season. -- Gil Gerard
No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature. -- A. A. Milne
God doesn't do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, "Can I be excused the Crucifixion?" No! -- Alan Bennett
No form of violence can ever be excused in a society that wishes to call itself decent -- Nelson Mandela
Gratitude is a duty none can be excused from, because it is always at our own disposal. -- Pierre Charron
If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character -- Taryn Manning
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not. -- Ben Jonson
Evidently we look so much alike that your desire to make an incurable dent in my hat must be excused. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Instead, I quietly excused myself and went to the bar, to commune with spirits I know how to relate to. -- Mary Roach
Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings. -- Edith Wharton
We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate. -- Saint Francis de Sales
It's my custom to say something flattering to begin with so I shall be excused if I put my foot in it later on. -- Prince Philip
I know certain actors are totally screwed up on drugs, yet it gets covered up. Why wasn't I excused for 'exhaustion' or 'the flu'? -- Drew Barrymore
If we want to be excused for our imperfections and personal failings, then we'd better be ready to offer the same grace to our partners. -- Ellen McCarthy
The writer cannot expect to be excused from the task of reeducation and regeneration that must be done. In fact, he should march right in front. -- Chinua Achebe
My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes. -- Douglas Adams
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living. -- Moliere
I am feeling easy now, and you will well understand that after undergoing pain this ease is opening paradise. Invalids must be excused for being eloquent about themselves. -- George Eliot
There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity. -- Veronica Roth
In decision after decision on the bench, Judge [Samuel] Alito has excused abusive actions by the authorities that intrude on the personal privacy and freedoms of average Americans. -- Edward Kennedy
I am not much of a hand at love songs, you see I mingle metaphysics with even this, but perhaps in this age of Philosophy that may be excused. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
He always ran away from the battle with himself. Even in his own heart's privacy, he excused himself, saying, "If she hadn't said so-and-so, it would never have happened. -- D. H. Lawrence
A group of Cuban Americans denounced the Castro government as a fascist regime that monitors and scrutinized its citizens' everyday existence. And then they excused themselves to go watch Big Brother. -- Bill Maher
But surely Adam cannot be excused; Her fault though great, yet he was most to blame; What weakness offered, strength might have refused, Being lord of all, the greater was the shame. -- Emilia Lanier
A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven - not excused or sublimated. -- Fulton J. Sheen

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