License Quotes

• Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.

  Russell Kirk

  Kings, Men, Self

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• He was such a bad writer, they revoked his poetic license.

  Milton Berle

  Writing, Poetic License, Poetic

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• If you want to find a way to keep illegal immigrants, you know where they are, you give them a driver's license. It helps with - they all get insured, it helps with traffic safety. I believe education is the key. Yeah, I was for kids of illegal immigrants, if they fulfill the same academic requirements as New Mexico kids, to be eligible for a scholarship. I believe we have to bring the 12 million undocumented workers out of the shadows, set up a standard where they speak English, if they pass background checks, pay back taxes, obey the laws, embrace American values, give them a chance, a path to citizenship, not amnesty.

  Bill Richardson

  Amnesty, Scholarship, Drivers

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. May 27, 2007.

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• I was thinking about New Mexico, and I rounded the corner in New York, and there was a New Mexico license plate: "New Mexico, land of enchantment."

  William S. Burroughs

  New York, Thinking, Land

  Source: sensitiveskinmagazine.com

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• Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.

  Candace Cameron

  Adults, Drivers, Treated

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Freedom of the press is essential to the preservation of a democracy; but there is a difference between freedom and license. Editorialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Lying, Order, Differences

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• People are always pleased to indulge their religiosity when it allows them to stand in judgment of someone else, licenses them to feel superior to someone else, tells them they are more righteous than someone else. They are less enthusiastic when religiosity demands that they be compassionate to someone else. That they show charity, service and mercy to everyone else.

  Leonard Pitts

  People, Charity, Demand

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• That's something I've always been down with: creative commons and people being able to license their music and allow other people to reuse it and recycle it.

  Girl Talk

  People, Creative, Able

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• To tell you the truth, I think it's about that we shouldn't get our driver's licenses till real late in life.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Real, Thinking, Late

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

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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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• 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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• I moved to Philadelphia to go to school at Eastern partly because I wanted to study the Bible and I also went to study sociology. I like how Karl Barth said we have to read the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other so that our faith doesn't just become a ticket into heaven and a license to ignore the world around us.

  Shane Claiborne

  School, Philadelphia, Hands

  "Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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• I feel like being in a band, you get license to be a kid forever.

  Mark Hoppus

  Kids, Forever, Band

  "Interview: Mark Hoppus on Blink-182's New Album, 'California'". Coup De Main Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. June 27, 2016.

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• The writer must not invent. The legend on the license must read: NONE OF THIS WAS MADE UP.

  John Hersey

  Legends, Made

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• The push and pull of representing your world responsibly and your artistic license is a tricky balance.

  Eden Robinson

  Balance, World, Artistic

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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• The only years [of Donald Trump's] that anybody's ever seen were a couple of years when he had to turn them over to state authorities when he was trying to get a casino license, and they showed he didn't pay any federal income tax.

  Hillary Clinton

  Couple, Years, Trying

  Source: time.com

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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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• If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run.

  John Bingham

  Running, Years, Tests

  John Bingham (1999). “The Courage To Start: A Guide To Running for Your Life”, p.14, 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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• 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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• 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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• I did pass the bar in Pennsylvania. I can practice Amish law. But it's long expired, my bar license.

  Rich Fulcher

  Law, Practice, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• [Barack Obama] might say more about these rogue cops and their license to kill.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Might, Rogues, Cop

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• A quick comeback is usually meant as license to be mean.

  Steven Petrow

  Mean, Comeback

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I lose things all the time. I used to lose my license all the time before I put a place in my car for it.

  Janet Jackson

  Car, Used, Loses

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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