License Quotes - Page 6

• Every place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away from your children or grandchildren. You should have to license it so the police can trace it if it's used in a crime. [On keeping guns]

  Michael D. Barnes

  Country, Children, Gun

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• Judges,lawyers an politicians have a license to steal.We don't need one.

  Carlo Gambino

  Judging, Needs, Lawyer

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• My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Attitude, Golf, Games

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, I want to come to your house and have you talk to me and tell me the story of your life. I mean people are going to say, You're crazy. Plus they're going to keep mighty guarded. But the camera is a kind of license. A lot of people, they want to be paid that much attention and that's a reasonable kind of attention to be paid.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Crazy, Mean

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• My creative process begins when I get out with the camera and interact with the world. A camera is truly a license to explore. There are no uninteresting things. There are just uninterested people.

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Photography, People, Creative

  "Master Interview; Jerry Uelsmann". Interview with Chris Maher and Larry Berman, www.shutterbug.com. September 1, 2007.

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• By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Hands, Ethos, Speech

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• I strongly believe that marriage should be defined as between a man and a woman. I'm troubled by activist judges who are defining marriage. I've watched carefully what's happened in San Francisco where licenses were being issued, even though the law states otherwise. I have consistently stated that I will support law to protect marriage between a man and a woman. And obviously these events are influencing my decision.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Gay, Men

  "The Legal Argument Against Gay Marriage". "The Big Story" With John Gibson, www.foxnews.com. February 19, 2004.

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• I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs.

  Anne Tyler

  Baby, Thinking, Waiting

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• A minimum required standard to obtain a massage license is quite a different matter from a voluntary certification evidencing higher-level skills. Licensing standards should be set at a level sufficient to assure safe practice, but low enough to avoid screening out those individuals who choose to perform basic work

  Bob Benson

  Practice, Skills, Different

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• What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by its nature, is a realm of malevolence where the good has no chance to win. Let them check their premises. Let them check their standards of value. Let them check - before they grant themselves the unspeakable license of evil-as-necessity - whether they know what is the good and what are the conditions it requires.

  Ayn Rand

  Winning, Evil, Want

  Ayn Rand (1957). “Atlas Shrugged”

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• The camera basically is a license to explore.

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Cameras

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• Wouldn't you like to weigh what it says on your driver's license?

  Sam Ewing

  Drivers

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• I feel like 'CSI: Miami' was just a license to do all sorts of horrible things that I'd always wanted to do.

  Emily Procter

  Csi, Miami, Horrible

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• I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license photo looks like a blonde Elvis.

  Emily Procter

  Taken, Self, Blonde

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• I believe that requiring those already in Texas to obtain driver’s licenses would ensure they pass a driver’s test and meet the requirements to obtain auto insurance.

  Dan Patrick

  Believe, Texas, Requirements

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• You have to take some dramatic license just to make it entertaining sometimes

  Chi McBride

  Sometimes, Dramatic, Entertaining

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• I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I've got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol... It's all in a box in the garage.

  Jared Harris

  Glasses, Cab Drivers, Done

  "Q&A – Jared Harris (Lane Pryce)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com.

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• Photography was a license to go wherever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Wanted

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• If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.

  Amitav Ghosh

  Despair, Liberty, Slaughter

  "River of Smoke". Book by Amitav Ghosh, 2011.

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• The prerequisite for a good marriage ... is the license to be unfaithful.

  Carl Jung

  Unfaithful, Good Marriage, Prerequisites

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• Any property may now be taken for the benefit of another private party, but the fallout from this decision will not be random. The beneficiaries are likely to be those citizens with disproportionate influence and power in the political process, including large corporations and development firms. As for the victims, 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

  Taken, Party, Influence And Power

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• Being a champion opens lots of doors—I'd like to get a real estate license, maybe sell insurance.

  Mike Tyson

  Real, Doors, Champion

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• Artistic license sneered through the thin fabric.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Fabric, Artistic

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• One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country. It's not okay. It's a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be. [Sex] is supposed to be within marriage. It's supposed to be for purposes that are yes, conjugal... but also procreative. That's the perfect way that a sexual union should happen... This is special and it needs to be seen as special.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, Sex, Crazy

  "Rick Santorum Pledges To Defund Contraception: ‘It’s Not Okay, It’s A License To Do Things’". Interview with Shane Vander Hart, thinkprogress.org. October 19, 2011.

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• Exclusion of just one class of citizens from receiving a marriage license based upon the perceived 'threat' they pose to the marital institution is, at bottom, an arbitrary exclusion based upon the majority's disapproval of the defined class. It is also insulting to same-sex couples, who are human beings capable of forming loving, committed, enduring relationships.

  Terence C. Kern

  Sex, Couple, Gay

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