Quotes with license

  • My son's going to have a job, and if he wants to get a car when he gets his license, he's going to pay for it on his own like I did.
  • A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times?

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  • Frank Zappa A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.
    Frank Zappa
    American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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  • Bill Kurtis A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we'll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That's harder than it sounds.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Bill Moyers A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times?
    Bill Moyers
    American journalist (1934 - )
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  • Marshall Mcluhan American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Hartley Coleridge But what is Freedom? Rightly understood,
    A universal license to be good.
    Liberty
    Hartley Coleridge
    English poet, biographer and writer (eldest son of S. T. Coleridge) (1796 - 1849)
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  • Juvenal From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Anne Tyler 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
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • James Fenimore Cooper It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Bertrand Russell Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • John Milton License they mean when they cry liberty.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Al Stewart 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
    Scottish singer-songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Bill Rancic My son's going to have a job, and if he wants to get a car when he gets his license, he's going to pay for it on his own like I did.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • John Milton None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, ''What will you have, sir?'' And I said, ''A glass of hemlock.''
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Raoul Vaneigem Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Beck There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Bill Shuster We need to enact a strong standard that will stop a terrorist or illegal alien from getting a driver's license because border security is a major concern in a post-September 11th world.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Will Durant When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Bill Moyers The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that human beings are more than the sum of their material appetites, our country is more than an economic machine, and freedom is not license but responsibility.
    For Americas Sake, speech 12 December 2006, Moyers on Democracy
    Bill Moyers
    American journalist (1934 - )
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