Quotes About Permission

I always joke about how I get excited to go to the grocery store without permission.

For me, the key is years of the blessed filmmakers I've worked with giving me permission to be bold and jump off cliffs and to be boundaryless. I would put David Lynch at the top of that list.

Production-wise, it is difficult to shoot an entire film in the U.S. It's logistically difficult, as getting permission takes time, and it is also expensive to shoot there.

Labels can be really helpful when we have the autonomy to label ourselves. But when other people label us without our permission, that's when it becomes dangerous.

They have permission to play all the indoor games they want, but my daughters are not going to be competing in public sporting activities.

A dream role of mine that I'm currently talking to some people about - I'm trying to get an Aaliyah biopic made, but a proper one, and see if we can get the family's permission and get all the rights to all the music.

Instead of asking for permission, we're seeing more artists and creatives taking control over the stories we tell.

I do have a carry permit.

I am open to playback singing, but only if my acting schedule permits. I would love to sing for myself in my films, but that depends on the director and if the makers think my voice is needed.

Well, I'm permitted to say anything I like. I just don't.

God is only where you let Him in.

Hannah leaned against the wall. 'Mind if I call shotgun?' 'Since you're carrying one? Feel free.

He was all for people speaking their minds but it did make him miss the time when what was beneath the surface had been permitted to stay there.

I believe women and minorities often wait for permission to be invited to something; we need to stop doing that.

I've realized along the way that a lot of things that I do as a performer are about waiting for somebody to write something for me or develop something for me, but music, music was the thing that I don't have to wait for anybody's permission to do.

Every artist that I've parodied has been cool with it so far. I know one hasn't loved a version of it, but she didn't sue me over it or make me take it down. They've all been pretty cool.

Repito: si no es dañino ni para ti ni para nadie, puedes hacer lo que quieras. Incluso, ser feliz.

These images point to a very real and important truth: what women will and will not permit does have a profound way of influencing the behavior of an entire society.

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following images: Image on page 19 courtesy of Paul Ekman Group.

You have to give people permission to laugh. That's why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies.

That was the thing about restorative justice. It allowed you to hold two things in your head at the same time--that butt-slapping was funny, and also that it wasn't. That asking permission to touch somebody was funny, but that you really didn't want to be touched by somebody who didn't ask. That the girls wanted Jeff to dial back the ass-smacking thing, but that they still liked joking around with him. That the whole thing wasn't a big deal, and that it kind of was (239).

Republican theory clearly stated that the people held all political power, and only they could delegate authority to a government. The people were free to change governments at will. They didn't need permission from incumbents.

The power to regulate arbitrarily is also the power to sell an exemption from the harm such regulations can do. The Church sold permits, or "indulgences," authorizing everything from relief from petty burdens on commerce to permission to eat dairy products in Lent.

You don't take away my freedom without asking first.