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• Homeschooling will certainly produce some socially awkward adults, but the odds are good they would have been just as quirky had they spent twelve years raising their hand for permission to go to the bathroom.

  Quinn Cummings

  Hands, Years, Odds

  Quinn Cummings (2012). “The Year of Learning Dangerously: Adventures in Homeschooling”, p.20, Penguin

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• Once you give an NFL player permission to have thoughts, you invite all kinds of mischief.

  Matt Taibbi

  Player, Nfl, Giving

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• Regardless of the cause, none of your problems could happen without God's permission.

  Rick Warren

  Causes, Problem, Without God

  "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper". Interview with John Piper, www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.

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• As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Kids, Cowboy, Color

  "An Interview With Walter Dean Myers About The Journal of Joshua Loper". Interview with Linda M. Pavonetti and Richard F. Abrahamson, www.scholastic.com.

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• George Bush doesn't care about black people... They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food... they're giving the (Army) permission to shoot us.

  Kanye West

  Song, Army, White

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• He kissed her. Without warning, without permission. Without even deciding to do it, but simply because he couldn't have done anything else. He needed that breath she was holding. It belonged to him, and he wanted it back.

  Tessa Dare

  Done, Warning, Needed

  Tessa Dare (2010). “One Dance with a Duke”, p.181, Ballantine Books

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• There's something really magical about having a child - it's like permission to begin again, start over, reevaluate some things, check yourself. Recognize yourself.

  Jill Scott

  Children, Starting Over, Checks

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• Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. . .  Remember that in order to recover as an artist, you must be willing to be a bad artist.  Give yourself permission to be a beginner.  By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one

  Julia Cameron

  Artist, Order, Giving

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• The truth is, whoever I've dated, if I've ever wanted to talk about them on stage, I've asked them first, and I've gotten their permission to tell a story or talk about them before I do it.

  Amy Schumer

  Stories, Firsts, Truth Is

  "Play Ball! Comedian Amy Schumer Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. April 4, 2014.

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• Did you know that the average American spends six months of his or her life waiting for red lights to turn green? Six months wasted, waiting for permission to move on. Think of all the other stuff you could do with that time.” I was totally confused. “In the car?” “In your life,” he said.

  Megan McCafferty

  Confused, Moving, Thinking

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.308, Crown

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• Free men do not ask permission to bear arms

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Arms, Libertarian

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• I would like permission to fetch a note from my mother, sir' Ridcully sighed. 'Rincewind, you once informed me, to my everlasting puzzlement, that you never knew your mother because she ran away before you were born. Distinctly remember writing it down in my diary. Would you like another try?' 'Permission to go and find my mother?'

  Terry Pratchett

  Mother, Writing, Trying

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• It's better to ask forgiveness than permission. - Brom

  Christopher Paolini

  Eragon, Asking For Forgiveness, Asks

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• He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Liars, Lying, Deception

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.286

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• Here is the point about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not hold our convictions dogmatically. We believe with certainty that an ethical life can be lived without religion. And we know for a fact that the corollary holds true - that religion has caused innumerate people not just to conduct themselves no better than others, but to award themselves permission to behave in ways that would make a brothel-keeper or an ethnic cleanser raise an eyebrow.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Believe, Awards, Eyebrows

  "God Is Not Great" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. April 25, 2007.

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• Your identity, self-esteem, and awareness of your ego lay the groundwork for your life. How you conduct yourself with others, and whether you have the strength to make your way without needing to ask for another's permission, depends on how well you succeed at the many challenges that awaken your need to take charge of who you are.

  Caroline Myss

  Self Esteem, Ego, Challenges

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential”, p.211, Harmony

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• In some ways, blogging is like drinking - it gives a person permission to be a total asshole.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Drinking, Giving, Way

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• Don't ask permission to be happy. Don't beg for forgiveness. Just do it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Asks, Just Do It

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• You are a child of God, small games do not work in this world. For those around us to feel peace, it is not example to make ourselves small. We were born to express the glory of God that lives in us. It is not in some of us, it is in all of us. While we allow our light to shine, we unconsciously give permission for others to do the same. When we liberate ourselves from our own fears, simply our presence may liberate others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Games, Light

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• When you record for a label, they own that material in perpetuity, meaning that they can release, chose not to release , or repackage it any way they so choose... with or without the permission of the artist.

  Edgar Winter

  Artist, Labels, Records

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• A free culture supports and protects creators and innovators. It does this directly by granting intellectual property rights. But it does so indirectly by limiting the reach of those rights, to guarantee that follow-on creators and innovators remain as free as possible from the control of the past. A free culture is not a culture without property, just as a free market is not a market in which everything is free. The opposite of a free culture is a "permission culture" -- a culture in which creators get to create only with the permission of the powerful, or of creators from the past.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Powerful, Past, Rights

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• I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody.

  Shane Carruth

  Matter, Film, Plans

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• I seem to vaguely remember a time when America had confidence. And guts. And soldiers fighting a war didn't need to be given "permission" to defend themselves from enemies trying to kill them.

  Charles Foster Johnson

  War, Fighting, America

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• I believe art prefers rules. For some artists, the worst thing you can do is say 'Do whatever you want.' Such permission can be terrifying. I know it is for me. Often it's better if you impose rules or restrictions on a project. Requirements can force you to be creative in unusual ways.

  Lisa Mangum

  Art, Believe, Creative

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• If a man, in a lifetime of 50 years, can point to six songs that are immediately identifiable, he has achieved something. Irving Berlin can sing 60 that are immediately identifiable. Somebody once said you couldn't have a holiday without his permission.

  Sammy Cahn

  Song, Holiday, Men

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