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• If you need the approval of the platform vendor to ship an app, then it isn't a platform.

  Dave Winer

  Needs, Ships, Vendors

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• Raised some taxes based on court orders and voter approval.

  Mike Huckabee

  Order, Voters, Court

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• You don't have to wait for anyone's approval to do things. You don't have to try to get a job and go through set steps before you start a career or start your life. That's what I want young girls to know - you can do anything you want. Just start.

  Petra Collins

  Girl, Jobs, Careers

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• Know that God has a plan for your life. Turn your life over to him every day. Stop looking outside yourself for validation and approval-you're letting other people define your happiness. Instead of trying so hard to manipulate life, take care of yourself on the inside. Then all those other attributes you're so desperately seeking will find you eventually.

  Trisha

  Validation, People, Trying

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• Over the years, HIV/AIDS activists and their allies have been pioneers in creating new frontiers in the medical establishment. Through their efforts, the FDA drug approval procedures were reformed so promising new therapies could reach desperate patients quicker.

  David Mixner

  Fda, Years, Creating

  "Why The HIV/AIDS Community Should Care About the New Medicare Panel" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2010.

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• A good teacher, after all, wields the authority of a parent with none of the psychological baggage. The best of them are semi-mysterious figures whose wisdom seems boundless and whose approval helps us discover who we are.

  Steve Almond

  Teacher, Parent, Who We Are

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• Eroticism is the approval of life unto death.

  Georges Bataille

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There is a hunger in every human being for approval.

  Les Giblin

  Hunger, Humans, Human Beings

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• Why live for the approval of men when you can have the approval of their Creator? What can they give you that God can't?

  LeCrae

  Men, Giving, Creator

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• Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Winning, Men, Self

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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• A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.

  Helen Rowland

  Maturity, Men, Halos

  Helen Rowland (2017). “A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.45, Litres

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• I don't have anything to prove anymore. I don't have a record deal, no one has any expectations, I'm in a position of freedom. I don't need anyone's approval.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Expectations, Needs, Records

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• Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval.

  C. S. Lewis

  Jesus, People, Hatred

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Whenever I do a deal I always have the right of approval.

  Shaun White

  Deals

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• Looking for approval or blaming others or feeling like a victim. Whenever I feel myself doing that I try to stop and see myself as someone who's a creator in more ways than just what the word typically means.

  Alanis Morissette

  Mean, Feelings, Trying

  "New Again: Alanis Morissette". Interview with Elizabeth Weitzman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2015.

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• I think actors, they maybe want more approval than I'm used to giving. Everybody does. Everybody needs a hug you know, all the time. I'm not very good at that. I could get better at that.

  Timothy Miller

  Thinking, Giving, Hug

  "Exclusive: Tim Miller Talks Deadpool Development & X-Men Universe". Interview with Rob Keyes, screenrant.com. November 5, 2015.

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• I want a military funeral when I die—the bugler, the flag on the casket, the ceremonial firing squad, the hallowed ground.... It will be a way of achieving what I've always wanted more than anything—something I could have had, if only I'd managed to get myself killed in the war.... The unqualified approval of my community.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Military, War, Squad

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.169, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I think they're more looking at these two candidates. It's a band of voters with which neither candidate has very high approval ratings.

  Bill Burton

  Thinking, Approval Rating, Two

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The professions of novelist and journalist are very separate. As a novelist, you are ultimately working for yourself. Yes, you need the approval of a publisher and an audience, but what is valued in fiction writing - style, individual voice, insight - is scorned by the editor who is combing through your newspaper article.

  Jon Weisman

  Writing, Editors, Voice

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Until we become fully free, we put up a false front, a facade, to others for the purpose of winning the acceptance and approval of others. We behave in accordance with what we think the other one wants rather than by expressing our own real feelings.

  Lester Levenson

  Spiritual, Real, Acceptance

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• Give your approval to all you cannot understand.

  Wendell Berry

  Giving

  Wendell Berry (2013). “A Country of Marriage: Poems”, p.16, Counterpoint Press

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• When you have to wait 10 and 15 years for an approval and then you don't even get the approval, it's no good.

  Donald Trump

  Years, Waiting

  "Trump on dismantling Obama's legacy: 'No, no, no'" by Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. December 12, 2016.

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• I always wanted to be an artist. I think I was just waiting on somebody to approve me and be like, "Oh, okay, you should be an artist," you know 'cause it wasn't until I stopped looking for approval that I could actually do it.

  PJ Harvey

  Artist, Thinking, Waiting

  "Singer/Songwriter PJ Shares Her Soundtrack For The Come Up". Interview with Todd Davis, www.parlemag.com. September 9, 2016.

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• When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough.

  Criss Jami

  Men, Trying, Energy

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.116, Criss Jami

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• My dad taught me swears when I was a toddler, and I saw, at a really early age, that if I shocked people, I would get approval, and it made my arms itch with glee. I got addicted to it. It became this source of power in a totally powerless life.

  Roseanne Barr

  Dad, People, Age

  Source: www.elle.com

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