Permission Quotes - Page 10

• For me, reggae music and its aesthetic are touchstones in both simple and complex ways. Reggae's capacity to be a folk music that is created in a wholly modern context of the recording studio (and sometimes that is the sole performance space) is riddled with the kinds of contradictory impulses that we have come to expect from the post-modern. I revel in this, for it gives me, shall I say, permission.

  Kwame Dawes

  Simple, Space, Giving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm reluctant to draw many conclusions from private correspondence leaked without permission.

  John I. Jenkins

  Conclusion, Draws, Correspondence

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I was working on the book, but in a very subterranean kind of a fashion. And I think that giving yourself permission to respect that, without being lazy and not doing work when you could be doing work and just don't feel like it - that's a different balance that can be complicated to strike.

  Emily Barton

  Fashion, Book, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It happens a little bit more in the West, where there's more fluid - where everybody's originally from somewhere else. So they have a little bit more permission to do it. It happens the least, at the individual level at least, in the South, because the South has very strong, you know, set up black churches and white churches and a long history of that, and so it's a bigger social cost.

  Michael Emerson

  Strong, Somewhere Else, White

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In France, anyone can use your music on like a TV show or whatever - they don't need to ask permission. It's almost like a child when it has its own life.

  Thomas Mars

  Children, Tv Shows, France

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Nourished people, people who love and care for themselves, are also more efficient and nicer to be around. When you give yourself permission to relax, people will feel more relaxed around you; your environment will become more harmonious. Balance - between work and pleasure, giving and receiving, seriousness and levity - creates a happy healthy life.

  Kathy Freston

  Giving, People, Healthy

  Kathy Freston (2012). “Quantum Wellness: A Step-by-Step Guide to Health and Happiness”, p.149, Random House

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• Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Talent, Enough, My Friends

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• My feeling has always been if you entertain people, they give you permission to do more on a thematic or character level.

  Noah Hawley

  Character, Giving, People

  "Noah Hawley on the Life Span of 'Fargo,' Ewan McGregor's Dual Role, and Adapting 'Cat's Cradle'". Interview with Gazelle Emami and Matt Zoller Seitz, www.vulture.com. June 23, 2016.

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• If you give yourself permission to feel the pain and the joy, without attaching to either, then you can be happy or sad with an underlying peace that just makes everything feel like it's going to be OK.

  Richard Brancatisano

  Pain, Giving, Joy

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• You can become very reclusive in Hollywood. This gave us permission to be able to open up and be intimate with somebody that you might not normally be kind of brave enough or confident enough to do so with.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Brave, Hollywood, Might

  "Into The Forest: Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood Survive a Quiet Apocalypse". Interview With Don Kaye, www.denofgeek.com. July 28, 2016.

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• I've had so many moments where seeing other women be fully and truly and authentically themselves, and express that, has given me permission. Once you see it happening, you're like, "Oh, I have permission to do that, too."

  Emma Watson

  Moments, Given, Happenings

  Interview with Geena Davis, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• Politics was my hobby, and I really spent 25 years as a full-time homemaker. I tell the feminists the only person's permission I had to get was my husband's.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Husband, Years, Feminist

  "Phyllis Schlafly Still Championing The Anti-Feminist Fight". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 30, 2011.

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• I think because I've gotten permission from my style icons like Tim Gunn and André Leon Talley, who say to me, "You don't need to dress like anyone else, because you're your own fashion icon. You represent comfortable. And you do fashion your way, and you should be at Fashion Week." They gave me permission to enjoy it! And it's great!

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Fashion, Thinking, Icons

  "Whoopi Goldberg Is the Fashion Week Muse We Need". Interview with Faran Krentcil, www.elle.com. September 12, 2016.

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• I do, however, have tape over my eyepiece as well. What I think my peace is saying isn't, "Oh I have something to hide. I don't want you to look," it's more saying, "No thank you. I prefer you not look. I'm not giving you permission."

  Melissa Leo

  Thinking, Giving, Tape

  "Melissa Leo & Zachary Quinto Describe Snowden’s Dark Side Of Technology". Interview with Nicole Pajer, screenrant.com. September 14, 2016.

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• "I'm going to show you I haven't given you permission because clearly you're not grown up enough to understand that, not having given you permission, you can't just come look in my house." And I won't know if they're coming and looking or not... so I put a piece of tape over it.

  Melissa Leo

  House, Tape, Looks

  "Melissa Leo & Zachary Quinto Describe Snowden’s Dark Side Of Technology". Interview with Nicole Pajer, screenrant.com. September 14, 2016.

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• Sometimes we just need a space that gives us permission to be the best, most full version of our artistic selves, and we flourish.

  Rafael Casal

  Self, Space, Giving

  Source: respect-mag.com

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• (I) try new things and give myself permission to fail and experiment because only that way can you get really successful.

  Ben Affleck

  Successful, Giving, Trying

  "Oscars Q&A: Ben Affleck". Interview with Christy Grosz, deadline.com. December 18, 2012.

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• We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.

  Ava DuVernay

  Doors, Way, Turns

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• My problem with all forms of fundamentalism is that the position is fixed. This is like talking about a fixed position as seen from a moving jet: it's disappearing over the horizon with or without your permission.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Moving, Talking, Horizon

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield.

  Tom Hooper

  Fire, Land, Enemy

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• You don't have permission to disrespect yourself.

  Martin de Maat

  Disrespect

  "The Mysterious Martin de Maat". "Chicago Reader" Newspaper, February 23, 2001.

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• But perhaps the most important innovation in the doctrine of jihad was its outright prohibition of all but strictly defensive wars. “Fight in the way of God those who fight you,” the Quran says, “but do not begin hostilities; God does not like the aggressor” (2:190). Elsewhere the Quran is more explicit: “Permission to fight is given only to those who have been oppressed ... who have been driven from their homes for saying, 'God is our Lord' ” (22:39; emphasis added).

  Reza Aslan

  War, Home, Fighting

  Reza Aslan (2008). “No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam”, p.84, Random House

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• Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Burning, Investing, Progressive

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• I don't mind fans coming up in a friendly, respectful way. That's all part of the fun of being a top tennis player. But if people take pictures without permission, particularly if my children are in the shot, I feel uncomfortable.

  Roger Federer

  Children, Fun, Player

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• My main piece of advice would be dont worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also dont be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and dont be afraid.

  David Levithan

  Book, Writing, Giving

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