License Quotes - Page 13

• Lying, like license, has its degrees.

  George Sand

  Lying, Degrees

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• One does not marry to become a judge of the spouse's behavior. If a marriage license is mistaken for a hunting license and disapproval, punishment, and threat of withdrawal of love are employed as weapons, all one bags is one's own unhappiness.

  Jo Coudert

  Hunting, Punishment, Judging

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.197, iUniverse

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• Artists need not meet any standards to practice their craft... Virtually every other occupation requires some sort of license, union membership or something that says you are qualified.

  Mike Svob

  Artist, Practice, Crafts

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• " many seemingly independent businessmen or craftsman are more or less well paid retainers of larger corporations, such as the cobbler, operating a United States shoe machine or an automobile dealer holding a license of the General Motors Corporation."

  Paul A. Baran

  Independent, Shoes, Corporations

  "The Political Economy Of Growth" by Paul A. Baran, Ch. 4, (p. 84), 1957.

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• There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.

  Damian Lewis

  People, Giving, Acting

  "Shooting star". Interview with Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2002.

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• Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Youth, Instruments, Chosen

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• In most states, it's more difficult to get a license for your dog than it is to buy a big cat. Right now, there are more tigers in the state of Texas than in all of India.

  Tippi Hedren

  Dog, Cat, Texas

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• A guy's got to get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father.

  Lois Greiman

  Father, Guy, Swimmer

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• Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.

  Ian Mckellen

  Gay, Thug, Giving

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• It would be preposterously naive to suggest that a B.A. can be made as attractive to girls as a marriage license.

  Grayson L. Kirk

  Girl, Sex, Would Be

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• You can't steal an artist's songs and also tell him he can't license that music to a commercial.

  Jack White

  Song, Artist, Stealing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license.

  Michael Franks

  Writing, Poetic License, Amount

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• No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.

  Charles Comiskey

  Honesty, Jail, Natural Instinct

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• A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.

  Alan K. Simpson

  Home, Support, Needs

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• The fastest way to bring financial ruin upon yourself is to go for a drive in the United States without proof of insurance and current license and registration.

  Hank Stuever

  United States, Way, Ruins

  "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. October 29, 2015.

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• Whatever Party of Men obtain the Reins of Management, and have power to name the Person who shall License the Press, that Party of Men have the whole power of keeping the World in Ignorance, in all matters relating to Religion or Policy, since the Writers of that Party shall have full liberty to impose their Notions upon the World.

  Daniel Defoe

  Party, Ignorance, Men

  Daniel Defoe (1704). “An Essay on the Regulation of the Press”, p.4

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• The government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Government, Results, Resources

  "McCain's August 6, 2007, speech addressing private property rights". www.cnn.com. August 6, 2007.

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• I got my driver's license photo taken out of focus on purpose. Now when I get pulled over, the cop looks at it [moving it nearer and farther, trying to see it clearly], and says, "Here, you can go"

  Steven Wright

  Moving, Taken, Focus

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• There's always your initial trepidation about doing a remake, but that was alleviated by the fact that it was a prequel. Immediately, that gives you creative license to really recreate and explore and put a new stamp on the genre.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Giving, Creative, Facts

  Source: collider.com

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• ...He went to Scotland and studied under Lister...("Lister was persecuted by the British Medical Association. He was threatened with having his license revoked.") Yet in Lister's hospital virtually no one died as a result of operations because Lister had developed a carbolic acid wash and disinfectant. Dr. Keen came back from Scotland...He was referred to as a crazy Listerite.....He was denied an opportunity to practice in every hospital in Philadelphia.

  Paul Douglas

  Crazy, Dark, Opportunity

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• Yes... well, I used to have a pilot's license.

  Will Wright

  Pilots, Used, Wells

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• You might be a redneck if you consider your license plate personalized because your dad made it in prison.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Dad, Redneck, Might

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• My Maserati does 185, I lost my license, now I don't drive.

  Joe Walsh

  Order, Law, Doe

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• I have decided not to appeal the ruling that took my law license. My accusers, the Board of Supervisors, once again have fired my lawyers, ensuring I cannot properly defend myself or my anti-corruption efforts.

  Andrew Thomas

  Law, Effort, Boards

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• What we're really after is simply that people acquire a legal license for Windows for each computer they own before they move on to Linux or Sun Solaris or BSD or OS/2 or whatever.

  Bill Gates

  Moving, People, Linux

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