License Quotes - Page 2

• It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Believe, People

  Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• Frankness is not a license to say anything you want, wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness.

  Rick Warren

  Say Anything, Want, Purpose Driven Life

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• In 2007, when I was governor of New York, I proposed that our state once again permit undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver's license. To say the proposal lit a firestorm in the political arena is an understatement.

  Eliot Spitzer

  New York, Political, Arena

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• Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.

  Steven Spielberg

  Poetic License, Historical, Lists

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. December 17, 2002.

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• First, we must stop issuing drivers' licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them with forms of government identification makes a mockery of our laws and undermines national security efforts.

  Bobby Jindal

  Country, Government, Law

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• I suppose Roger [Ruskin Spear] had the license to do anything that fitted the venue.

  Neil Innes

  Roger, Venues

  "Bonzo Dog Band". Interview with Richie Unterberger, www.furious.com. January 2001.

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• Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?

  William Gibson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

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• If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.

  Thomas Friedman

  Amazon, Ethics, Conservation

  "Thomas Friedman: Hope for a hot, flat and crowded world". Interview with Elizabeth Kolbert, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.

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• I was being paid to do what I loved, and there's no gig on earth better than that; it's like a license to steal.

  Stephen King

  Earth, Gigs, Stealing

  Stephen King (1999). “Bag of Bones”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Now I want you to listen to me," he said in a low voice, taking her chin in his hand and forcing her to look at him. "And listen carefully, because I'm only going to say this once. You are going to marry me before this week is out. Since you have conveniently run off to Scotland, we don't need a special license. You're just lucky I don't haul you off to a church right this instant. Get yourself a dress and get yourself some flowers, because, sweeetheart, you're getting yourself a new name.

  Julia Quinn

  Running, Flower, Hands

  FaceBook post by Julia Quinn from Nov 20, 2014

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• Well, you've finally got a license to kill. It's about time.

  Richelle Mead

  Flushing, Wells, Christian Ozera

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.20, Penguin

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• Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.

  Vera Nazarian

  Exercise, Choices, Given

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• For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments.

  James Brady

  Home, Gun Control, Police

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• The law exists for a reason. There is a dominant American culture that people used to want to preserve. That's going by the wayside, too. But if it's now okay for an illegal alien to practice law in California, then can anybody else who's broken the law get a law license? And if not, why not?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Law, Practice, California

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• Starting at about, I guess, forever, I've always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn't wait to be 16 and get a driver's license.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Waiting, Forever, Getting Older

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• She might not be as strong as everyone she met, or as fast, or even as smart. But she could bullshit with the best of them. Combine that quality with a license to carry, and a girl could more than get by in this life.

  Laura Lippman

  Girl, Strong, Smart

  "By a Spider's Thread". Book by Laura Lippman, 2004.

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• James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.

  Gene Simmons

  Rocks, People, Attention

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• The growth of the company and the license that Starbucks has is to participate in other food and beverage opportunities. We have a global business... and in many parts of the world, tea is much, much bigger than coffee, and we're going to bring tea and bring our capability and our understanding of what we've done for coffee to tea.

  Howard Schultz

  Coffee, Opportunity, Understanding

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• Liberty is the right to do what I like; licence, the right to do what you like.

  Bertrand Russell

  Liberty

  "Fact and Fiction".

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• Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Baseball, Stealing

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• Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Clever, Player, Knowing

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• I chose to wait to get my drivers license. Since I was working and I didn't have time, I got it like a week before my 18th birthday.

  Michelle Trachtenberg

  Waiting, 18th Birthday, Week

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• Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure time it had was passed pleasantly enough in conversations, arguments, drinking, making love, wandering, celebrating and rioting. The new proletarian sells his labour power in order to consume. When he’s not flogging himself to death to get promoted in the labour hierarchy, he’s being persuaded to buy himself objects to distinguish himself in the social hierarchy. The ideology of consumption becomes the consumption of ideology.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Drinking, Order, Making Love

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• Note even Moroi give licenses to infants, Sage.

  Richelle Mead

  Giving, Sage, Notes

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.320, Penguin

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• In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders.

  Joe Baca

  Government, Track, Borders

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