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Quotes About License

My desire to write is connected with my homosexuality. I need the identity as a weapon, to match the weapon that society has against me. It doesn't justify my homosexuality. But it would give me — I feel — a license.
~ Susan Sontag
A bigot can be defined as a guy who gets caught practicing sociology without a license.
~ Joseph Sobran
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~ Judith Arnold
When I got my law degree and my license to practice here in the District of Columbia, I represented several immigrants who had entered without inspection.
~ Thomas Hardiman
I've always seen our faith as an instrument to embrace our fundamental equality, before God and before our laws, and not as a license to discriminate.
~ Pia Wurtzbach
Using the existence of a marriage license to determine when the state should protect interpersonal relationships is increasingly impractical.
~ Stephanie Coontz
When he came back from downtown, he had forgotten to bring his license, his identification, the $2 for the wedding license. So we got married two days later.
~ Eydie Gorme
Funny how being decrepit, diseased and sentenced to death gave you so much power. She couldn't go to Morocco nor even drive herself into town. She could hardly move off the couch. But she could say whatever she wanted: she had bitch licence.
~ Fiona McGregor
Wherefore, whoever he be who deems himself happy because of license to revile, he would be far happier if that were not allowed him at all; for he might all the while, laying aside empty boast, be contradicting those to whose views he is opposed by way of free consultation with them, and be listening, as it becomes him, honorably, gravely, candidly, to all that can be adduced by those whom he consults by friendly disputation.
~ St. Augustine
I have a drivers licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.
~ Ferran Adria
And that is one thing that no amount of freedom or "licence" or "permissiveness" or whatever the old fogies call it can cope with. That is the odd assumption found in the twentieth century (I wonder if you who read this will know what those two stupid words mean?):
~ Michael Moorcock
License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good.
~ John Milton
I have 3 dogs myself - I actually have a kennel license in order to do so. I love them so much I couldn't imagine my life without them.
~ Margaret Cho
Memory takes a lot of poetic licence. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart. The interior is therefore rather dim and poetic.
~ Tennessee Williams
It's great fun being an academic because you have a certain licence to be a bit of a joker.
~ Mary Beard
The police," he said. "You can't carry firearms in England without a licence. Just like dogs. You'll be getting into trouble before you know where you are. Now look here, ma'am," he went on, with increasing confidence, "you'd far better make a clean breast of it." "A clean breast? What do you mean? Why do you pester me like this?" she cried, with sudden terror.
~ Francis Brett Young
Does a red 'Radio Wagon' require an FCC license?
~ Francis M. Faber Jr.
It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing.
~ Frank Shorter
That was close!" Frank gasped. The car had been traveling at such high speed that the boys had been unable to get the license number or a glimpse of the driver's features. But they had noted that he was hatless and had a shock of red hair.
~ Franklin W. Dixon
To be given loyalty is to be infused like a gemstone, to be granted the frightful license to destroy not only one's self, but all within one's care.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Yes... well, I used to have a pilot's license.
~ Will Wright
These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie.
~ Edward Bennett Williams
Live free or die is not just a slogan on a license plate. It is the very essence of who we are.
~ Chris Sununu