License Quotes - Page 2

• He [Bill Clinton] lost his license. He had to pay an $850,000 fine.

  Donald Trump

  Pay, Bills, Clinton

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• It's just nice to do something a bit different, and I guess when you're an actor, you have the license to do that.

  Luke Evans

  Nice, Different, Actors

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the circumstances.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Freedom, Liberty, Realist

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• License to Kill' is not one of the great Bond movies.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Movie, Bond Movie, Great Bond

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• Money doesn't give you any license to relax. It gives you an opportunity to use all your abilities, free of financial worries, to go forward, and to use your superior advantages and talents to help others.

  Rose Kennedy

  Money, Helping Others, Opportunity

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• One of the things I prize most about being a writer is its license - you could even say injunction - to be curious, to follow anything anywhere and see where it might take you, how it can transform you, whether in content or form.

  Gregory Allen Howard

  Might, Curious, Form

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• I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the carriage door. We shall return to the house." Beth smiled up at Christian. "Shall we adjourn to the house to get some ointment for your hands and a bath, my love?" His eyes lit. "A bath?" Grandfather snorted. "Someone send to London for a special license! Now.

  Karen Hawkins

  Love, Christian, Eye

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• It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Education, Airplane

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• It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

  James F. Cooper

  Men, Fire, Views

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James F. Cooper, 1838.

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• The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere; it is not this sort of license that distinguishes New York. It is rather, a lust of the total ego for recognition, even for eminence. More than elsewhere, everybody here wants to be somebody.

  Sydney J. Harris

  New York, Ego, Lust

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• I've heard drug experts say they believe if penicillin were discovered today, the FDA wouldn't license it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Dark, Fda

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• The freedom of poetic license.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Freedom, Poetic License, Poetry

  "Pro Publio Sestio". Oration by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Section 6), 56 BC.

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• A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.

  Frank Zappa

  Political, Drug, Moral

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.325, Simon and Schuster

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• When my father finally got around to teaching me to drive, he was impressed at my "natural" talent for driving, not knowing that I had already been secretly driving my mother's car around the neighborhood. When I took the test and got my license and my father gave me my own set of keys to the car one night at dinner, it was a major rite of passage for him and my mother. Their perception of me had changed and was formally acknowledged. For me the occasion meant a private sanction to do in public what I had already been doing in secret.

  Robert Fulghum

  Mother, Father, Teaching

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• In true-life dramas, you have to do so much research. It's a big responsibility to make sure things are as correct as possible. In 'Robin Hood', you have more artistic license - it's all action, adventure and reaction. This gives everyone a chance to make their characters their own and to make them believable.

  Joanne Froggatt

  Drama, Adventure, Character

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• The ’60s was the last time when large groups of people in the West searched for alternative modes of being. In a society like India’s, which is still not fully modern or totally organized, and has a great deal of tolerance for otherness in general, they find the cultural license to try other things, to be whatever they want to be.

  Pankaj Mishra

  People, Tolerance, Trying

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• Truth and understanding are not such wares as to be monopolized and traded in by tickets and statutes and standards. We must not think to make a staple commodity of all the knowledge in the land, to mark and license it like our broadcloth and our woolpacks.

  John Milton

  Thinking, Land, Understanding

  John Milton (1835). “Prose Works”, p.112

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• We've had a culture war roaring away, and the kinds of people who want to abuse and discriminate against gay people who are adults can't really lay their hands on us unless they want to be gay-bashers and go to jail. They abuse us from afar and in the abstract, they abuse us with checkbooks and ballots, but their kids go to school on Monday morning. And there's a gay kid. And they feel they have license to beat that gay kid up in a way that I don't think they did when I was in school. I think it's gotten worse.

  Dan Savage

  Monday, Morning, War

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Shouldn't you have a license for being that ugly?

  Russell Lynes

  Wise, Ugly, Insult

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• In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.

  Suzanne Vega

  New York, Firsts, Ends

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• A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times?

  Bill Moyers

  Events, Different, Journalism

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• From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

  Juvenal

  Parenting, Parent, Authority

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• University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden.

  Allan Bloom

  Hunting, Issues, Conventions

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• We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman.

  Manal al-Sharif

  Firsts, Saudis

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• There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court.

  Patty Hearst

  Gun, Hands, Car

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