License Quotes - Page 11

• Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock."

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Marriage, Regret

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• So the competition isn't once you got the license, running the station; it's getting the license.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Running, Competition, Stations

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• The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Powerful, Doors, Input

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• I realized how important it was to know something about aviation, and it was something I was interested in, so I followed my brother's footsteps and obtained my pilot's license.

  Ellen Ochoa

  Brother, Important, Pilots

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• I do not support driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.

  Brian Sandoval

  Support, Undocumented Immigrants, Drivers

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• I don't license everywhere. I take care of my name.

  Gianni Versace

  Names, Care, Take Care

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie.

  Edward Bennett Williams

  New York, Lying, Newspapers

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• It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.

  Jess C Scott

  Giving, Lust, Half

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• When I was old enough to ride a motorcycle and got my license, I bought a '69 Sportster.

  Chuck Zito

  Motorcycle, Enough

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• The license said you had to stick around until I was dead, but if you're tired of looking at my face I guess I already am.

  Liz Phair

  Tired, Faces, Sticks

  Song: Divorce Song, Album: Exile in Guyville

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• Business is all about focus. But with focus comes myopia and to conquer that, I come in to shake things up. To be invited as a keynote speaker is to have a license to interfere and interrupt.

  Magnus

  Focus, Myopia, Conquer

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• The danger lies in unconventional experiments signaling for a general license to do as they please, and pass off sloppy workmanship as creative intention.

  Helmut Gernsheim

  Photography, Lying, Creative

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• I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day.

  Mickey Melchiondo

  School, Sea, Fishing

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• I think I'm going to have to get a flying license very soon, and maybe one of those Lear jets. It beats motorcycles all to hell.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Thinking, Flying, Motorcycle

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• When you push a car off a cliff and blow it up, be sure to roll the windows down to avoid shrapnel. Also, strip the license plate so you're not billed for the cleanup.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Blow, Car, Cliffs

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.378, Pan Macmillan

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• Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.

  Horace

  Art, Poet, Equal

  "Ars Poetica" (18 BC), 9, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 43-45, 1922.

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• Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence.

  Horace

  Freedom, Poet, Claims

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• In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.

  Phyllis Diller

  Family, Years, Insane

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• The idea that academics should remain ''above the fray'' only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Ideas, Giving, Misuse

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• Illinois is the only state where the present governor rides around in a car whose license plate was made by a previous governor.

  David Letterman

  Illinois, Car, States

  "David Letterman's political guests: The jokes were on them" by Diana D'Abruzzo, Slide 12, www.politico.com. May 20, 2015.

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• I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.

  Will Rogers

  Mean, Men, Nuisance

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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• The recent past is full of diverse examples of writers - Mahfouz in Egypt, Pamuk in Turkey, and more interestingly, Pasternak in the Soviet Union - who have conducted their arguments with their societies and its political arrangements through their art in subtle, oblique ways. They didn't always have the license to make bold pronouncements about freedom, democracy, Islam, and liberalism, but they exerted another kind of moral authority through their work.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Art, Past, Egypt

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.

  Charles Lamb

  Believe, Writing, Men

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1856). “The Life and Letters”, p.53

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• I never really drove a cab, but I do have a hack license in case of emergencies - like no money.

  Harry Chapin

  Emergencies, Cases, No Money

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• Erasmus dramatizes a well-established political position: that of the fool who claims license to criticize all and sundry without reprisal, since his madness defines him as not fully a person and therefore not a political being with political desires and ambitions. The Praise of Folly, therefore sketches the possibility of a position for the critic of the scene of political rivalry, a position not simply impartial between the rivals but also, by self-definition, off the stage of rivalry altogether.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Ambition, Self, Political

  "Erasmus's Praise of Folly: Rivalry and Madness". Neophilologus Journal, 1992.

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