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• The beauty of Billie Holiday is that she gave every singer after her the license to interpret and perform music in ways that were unique to each of us. Her uniqueness was very much a part of the way she sang the songs, the story she wanted to tell through the songs. I didn't really have a full understanding of Billie until I left home -- until I'd lived a little, shall we say. At different seasons of my life, when I'd sing her songs or listen to her albums, I'd hear things I didn't hear before. Wherever you are in life, you'll hear different things in her songs.

  Dianne Reeves

  Song, Home, Holiday

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• If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem and you're screwed.

  Lyle Lovett

  Song, Artistic, Anthem

  "Lyle Lovett: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 23, 2012.

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• The US needs a cap and trade system with auctioning of licenses for emissions rights. The revenues from these auctions can be used to launch a new, environmentally friendly energy policy. That would be yet another federal program that could help us to overcome the stagnation.

  George Soros

  Rights, Friendly, Overcoming

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Every child, woman, and man should possess license to speak or sing in his or her true voice.

  Joyce Maynard

  Children, Men, Voice

  Joyce Maynard (2010). “At Home in the World: A Memoir”, p.11, Macmillan

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• Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Power, Wealth, Purchasing

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• Merely presenting a driver's license or other document based on a birth certificate is not enough for an accurate verification. Biometric verification of identity must be made and then a data base of those persons who have legal status must be checked.

  Bob Dole

  Data, Identity, Immigration

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• So mothers have God's license to be missed.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Mother, Motherhood

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.322

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• Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

  Al Stewart

  School, Alaska, Order

  Song: License To Steal, Album: Last Days of the Century, 1988

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• To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click 'I Agree'.

  Bill Maher

  Christian, Clicks, Software

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• You beg for happiness in life, but security is more important to you, even if it costs you your spine or your life. Your life will be good and secure when aliveness will mean more to you than security; love more than money; your freedom more than party line or public opinion; when your thinking will be in harmony with your feelings; when the teachers of your children will be better paid than the politicians; when you will have more respect for the love between man and woman than for a marriage license.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Life, Teacher, Children

  "Listen, Little Man!". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1948.

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• God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don't have the license to define love according to our standards.

  Francis Chan

  Love Is, God Is Love, Standards

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2011). “Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up”, p.106, David C Cook

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• Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That is hell itself.

  Simone Weil

  Evil, Infinity, Hell

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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• I wrote an article not so long ago that was published in the Los Angeles Times, and I think I titled it "Movies vs. History." But I think they had another title for it. I got sort of sick and tired of seeing movies that got picked apart by people because they had taken dramatic or poetic license and I said "These people don't understand the distinctions."

  Nicholas Meyer

  Taken, Tired, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Vote: The only commodity that is peddleable without a license.

  Mark Twain

  Vote, Commodity

  Mark Twain (1960). “Mark Twain and the Government”

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• If I have sex, I know my quarterly estimated taxes must be due. And if it's oral sex, I know it's time to renew my driver's license.

  Ray Romano

  Sex, Taxes, Drivers

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• To lead a child (or anyone else!), even inadvertently, away from faithfulness, away from loyalty and bedrock belief simply because we want to be clever or independent is license no parent nor any other person has ever been given.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Loyalty, Children, Clever

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• I've been having a lot of dance parties alone in my apartment while learning to cook. Part of my quest to be an attractive single is to learn how to cook and sew and get a license.

  Sara Quin

  Single, Party, Quests

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• [Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot paint destroy the canons of painting; those who cannot write reject canonical literature.

  George Will

  Revenge, Writing, Giving

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• This needs to work on that level, but it has the additional strain of it's going to be profoundly scrutinized by political junkies from the right and the left who will pick apart every little thing. We are inherently dramatizing Hillary Rodham, or Hillary Clinton, who's a very famous figure. There's a lot of biographies about her, but there's also elements that are private moments, that are dramatized with an arc, and we have to take creative license. Everything is sort of a cost-benefit.

  James Ponsoldt

  Creative, Political, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• I can't even drive a car. I don't have a driver's license. I have a rented apartment in New York. That's it. When I travel, I have almost all of my possessions with me. That's how little I own.

  Lady Gaga

  New York, Car, Littles

  "Lady Gaga lives the simple life" by Lauren Pervizi, www.sfgate.com. March 12, 2010.

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• Let me define prayer for you in this show. Prayer is man giving God permission or license to interfere in earth's affairs. In other words, prayer is earthly license for heavenly interference.

  Myles Munroe

  Prayer, Men, Giving

  "The Devilish Puppet Master of the Word-Faith Movement (Justin Peters)". Strange Fire Conference, www.gty.org. October 17, 2013.

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• With a historical novel you know that liberties are being taken. Since Walter Scott, we know that poetic license, dramatic license, that events been conflated and that liberties have been taken, characters ditto, dates rearranged. But people don't seem to understand that movies are fictions, they are dramatizations, at least historical movies, and we should accord the moviemakers some of the same understanding and latitude. When you go to a movie you know it's a dramatization and not history.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Taken, Character, Poetic License

  Source: collider.com

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• My marriage license reads, 'To whom it may concern,'

  Mickey Rooney

  May, Concern

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• I don't drive because I failed eight times and never got my license.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Eight

  "The GQ&A: Drive Director Nicolas Winding Refn". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. September 12, 2011.

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• I don't want to see an experiment. Experiment at home - when you show up on stage, I want to see a result. I think a lot of improvisers, you'll see them some nights and they just stink, and they go, "Well, we're just improvising." Like that's a license to have a shitty night!

  Z'EV

  Home, Night, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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