Sean Bean

I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.

English Actor

Quentin Tarantino

Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.

American Director

Mick Jagger

The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses and to criticize the drugs that made you happy in the other times.

English Singer

Rudy Giuliani

We have too many politicians who are poll-driven to excess. Polls are important. You've got to know what the public is thinking, but you can't let them drive you completely.

American Politician

John Crowe Ransom

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

American Poet

Robert Morgan

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.

Josh Billings

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

American Comedian

Richard Le Gallienne

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.

English Poet

Julian Bream

I have cut away what I call the excess stuff in my life.

British Musician

William Blake

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Use 'excess' when referring to a quantifiable amount, particularly when comparing with a norm or requirement.

Quantitative Context

'Excess' often carries a negative connotation, implying waste or lack of control.

Negative Undertone

Avoid using 'excess' when precise measurements are needed; it's typically more general.

Measurement Avoidance

As an adjective, 'excess' describes items or behaviors that go beyond what's usual or permitted.

Descriptive Use

When used as an adjective, it often implies that the excessiveness is a problem or a burden.

Implies Problem

In insurance, 'excess' refers to a specific financial amount, not just any large quantity.

Insurance Specificity

The 'excess' in insurance is the part you're responsible for before the insurance covers the rest.

Cost Responsibility

Use 'excess' to describe overindulgence in actions, often suggesting moral judgment.

Behavioral Excess

Cultural values can influence what is seen as 'excess'; understand the context.

Cultural Lens

 Aerobic organisms, which can use oxygen for energy, started sopping up some of the excess gas in the atmosphere. The oxygen concentration rose and fell until eventually it reached the approximate 21% we have today. And being able to use the chemical energy in oxygen gave organisms the boost they needed to diversify

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 device you're using to watch this video or the ability to take a plane halfway around the world it also means we've increased our consumption of natural resources and in turn released a lot of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere now greenhouse gases occurred naturally but in excess can be dangerous to our

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 when it was in excess of 80 percent, but we can't explain the decline in death sentences and the affinity for life without the possibility of parole by an erosion of support for the death penalty, because people still support the death penalty. What's happened to cause this phenomenon?

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 Having too much or too little sugar can be life threatening, so the pancreas must stay on constant alert. After a big meal, the blood often becomes flushed with sugar. To bring us back to normal, the pancreas releases insulin, which makes the excess sugar move into cells,

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 That can mean increased body hair, enlargement of the clitoris, and permanent voice deepening in females. At the same time, excess testosterone-like steroids can cause feminization in males, because the body converts the excess into estrogen.

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 of the atmosphere and cools the earth's surface. Thunderstorms also help regulate the electrical balance between the atmosphere and the planet. As clouds in a thunderstorm develop, excess positive and negative charges form within them.

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 we need to steeply reduce fossil fuel emissions, and draw down excess CO2 to restore our atmosphere’s balance of greenhouse gases. But what can trees do to help in this fight? And how do they sequester carbon in the first place?

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 collect the water from the rain angola like many countries in africa has a rainy season as an incision so it's important to collect at the set of water a series of cannons and tanks will collect the excess of water for later

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 because as medical professionals, we've shed our excess mental baggage and cured ourselves of new idea resistance sufficiently to go back to our original open minds, the courage to throw out yesterday's ideas

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 Superb. That's brilliant. So, that's the world's fastest animal. Really?! Yup. Speeds in excess of 200mph. But how can you not find this interesting? I love it.

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