License Quotations

You have license in front of the camera to do things, feel certain emotions that you don't get to in real life. It can be addicting.

Why did Google, for example, recently decide to offer free 411 service? I haven't talked to people at Google, but it's pretty clear to me why. It's because of speech recognition. It has nothing to do with 411 service: it has to do with getting a database of voices, so they don't have to license speech technology from Nuance or someone else.

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.

The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth.

God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, ... to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates?

We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.

It seems ridiculous that you can be in one state with your driver's license and buy a firearm, and then in the next state it is totally illegal. There are real problems to that, but as soon as you bring up the subject and say 'gun control,' it sets a red flag.

A free public broadcast license is a privilege.

What's great about documentary, it seems to me, is that it can be experimental filmmaking. You have a license to do a lot of diverse things under the umbrella of 'documentary.'

I freely admit that I took great license in writing 'The Dark Queen,' more so than my other historical romance novels. This is largely because I viewed the book as a fantasy novel as much as an historical. I do feel that writers should strive for as much accuracy as possible but, in the end, remember that we are writing fiction.

I made about fifty-four dollars a week and spent it on two flying lessons every week at the age of sixteen and was able to get a license then pretty early and knew that that's what I wanted to do, some kind of a career in aviation. I did know about space flight, but at that point, it was still pretty far out there.

When I was old enough to ride a motorcycle and got my license, I bought a '69 Sportster.

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.

My dirty little secret is I don't drive at all, though I have my license and I renew it every five years. I'm phobic. I keep worrying if I drive, I'll end up killing someone. I hoped that by writing about a car crash, I might understand and heal this phobia, but I didn't! I'm still phobic.

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.

The License Raj in India was a time when, to set up an industry, you needed a license. Which made the government an omnipresent and sort of all-pervasive authority.

I suppose Roger had the license to do anything that fitted the venue.

Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.

'Dancing with the Stars' is a great format for us. It's a format we license from the BBC, so that can't travel for us, but we consider it a great success. 'Desperate Housewives,' on the other hand, a huge success for us internationally. 'Missing' has actually sold to 80 territories before it's even gone on the air.

The name 'The Beach Boys' is controlled by Brother Records Inc., which was founded by the original members of the Beach Boys and whose sole shareholders voted over a decade ago to grant me an exclusive license to tour as 'The Beach Boys.' With it, I've felt a great responsibility to uphold, honor and further our legacy.

When I turned 16, I got my driver's license like the rest of my classmates, but I also got an extra present: a two-day practice session in a Formula Ford: my first open-wheel racing car and the first step on the ladder toward becoming a professional driver.

Being British, we tend to think of ourselves as America's best friend. And as your best friend, that gives us a little bit of license to point out things that could have been handled better.

Back when I was 16, when I should have been doing normal high school things, I availed myself of my brand new driver's license to spend as much time as possible in Milwaukee's Renaissance Book Shop, a tumbledown five-story warehouse that the city was finally able to close down in 2011 for safety reasons. It was my teenage paradise.

If you don't feel like you're ready to get your license - just because people are putting pressure on you, don't feel like you have to rush into something. Take your time, really feel confident and be ready. It doesn't matter what other people say, do what's best for you and makes you feel safe.

New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. All these cliches that, as an Englishman, I thought were from a bygone era or were a bit of poetic license with cop shows - the more you hang out with them, the more you realize how real that jargon is.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.

Newspapers are not free and they never have been. They can appear to be so, but someone, somewhere is covering the costs whether that is through advertising, a patron's largesse or a license fee. Advertising is no longer subsidising the industry and so the cost must fall somewhere - why not on the people who use it?

I feel that people should have a license to have children, that they have proper education how to raise children. And that nobody should be allowed to be a parent unless they can prove that they are competent enough to be a parent.

I have gotten so many tickets. I hope I don't get my license revoked.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

You really do have the license during fashion week to wear the things that you wouldn't necessarily wear to dinner, because it really is a fashion parade.

Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.

I was at the courthouse to vote this morning. I parked in the far reaches of the parking lot I noticed a car sitting in the fire lane and blocking the disabled camp to go into the courthouse. As I got closer to the car the license plate on the car said County Judge. We must be vigilant to guard against the hubris of elected officials. This just reminded me why I am running in this race.

News used to be the rent that the station paid to you, the landlord. Today, it has been turned into a license to make money.

If we don't hear from the property owner, we monitor their home to see if something leads us to believe they are violating the ordinance. Then, we go to court and file for a search warrant. We'll look at names on prescriptions or the license plates at the homes, see if they are from several different counties or states, to identify how many people are living in the home.

I guess it's called artistic license for a reason because President Clinton, as usual, was wearing his wedding ring when he posed for the portrait.

I wouldn't have wanted to see Amanda go to jail. It's a small sacrifice to lose your license for 10 years.

No one should be able to peddle your private information for a profit without your express permission. Giving out this information to anyone who can pay the fee is a license to arm stalkers, criminals and identity thieves.

Of course I have the license to make up things, but I think a lot of what's written about China is misleading, and most Americans don't know much about China, in-depth, even though China is such a crucial business partner, rival, whatever.

No doubt 'Star Wars' is an important property for Hasbro but the history of that license hasn't been overall profitable for them.

Next to the things everybody does like smoking and drinking behind your parent's back, I did forge a drivers license when I was sixteen.

People were pleasantly surprised with the application license number this quarter so this puts to rest a lot of concerns.

I got my license after 2001 for me I am going to have to hold up a $300,000 bond each year for the protection of consumers.

I got my private pilot's license in autumn 1986.

If they would have taken his license for some months or had him take a driver safety class that would have made me feel like justice was served. But nothing was done -- nothing at all.

If they can't correct these issues, the license could be in jeopardy.

If they're going to have license renewal, they're going to need a place to store spent fuel.

If they commercialize it and they don't have a license from us, it could end up in a lawsuit.

The plant closed and I started the HVAC program at Morristown. It was an 18-month course. Near the end of completion, I switched over and went into the electrician programs, too. I was able to choose my HVAC license certification and get my electrician's license through the state.

When you call someone a 'fag,' it identifies them with a group, a group that in today's climate is open to harassment. So by calling someone a 'fag,' you are giving yourself and the people around you the license to either damage this individual verbally or physically.

License buyers have asked for - and we attempted to provide - more advance notice of season dates to help them select their vacation days. However, since deer harvest data will not be available until mid-March and bear and wild turkey harvest results were just made available, the Board and staff concluded more time was needed before taking final action on the 2006-07 seasons and bag limits.

License holders should always check their tags immediately upon receipt and then place them in a safe and secure location.

License plate recognition systems don't create congestion. For small states like Connecticut, where people can easily drive through without having to buy gas, drivers are essentially using the state's roads for free. Tolls are an effective way to collect money from them.

Motivated by a hundred thousand yuan they could save on the tax before the new rule takes effect, those luxury car buyers who are eager to get a license to drive, largely raise their bidding price, which resulted in the new highest price.

Shane has got a tremendous passion to be a pilot. It's not something that he could do here from an academic standpoint so he's going to be going down there because he wants to be a corporate pilot. I told him that when he gets his license we'll rent a corporate jet and he can fly me around or something.

When I was at Oracle, we watched Computer Associates buy all those mainframe software companies and milk them for their license revenue. I never thought that's what Oracle would be doing one day, and yet, here it is,

When you put a liquor license in that large a facility, there will be more accidents, it will be more dangerous, and you potentially will have more fatalities.

Luckily, he had a very alert neighbor who was able to get a license plate number off of the vehicle.

Solid performance across our products and regions drove record revenue for the company, excellent license growth and strong operating margin.

Several years ago, she just really took this license plate thing on. Her energy was incredible.

She was only 5 feet tall, but he must have been scared, because the teen threw his license at her and took off again.

She's been talking all this madness about getting a car, and she didn't even have a license yet. The kid's silly.

The only thing that I will do that will annoy some people is I am taking poetic license a little bit with time and space onstage,

There are tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of people who would be proud to have this license plate on their vehicles. We feel that those people deserve the opportunity to buy that flag, to buy that tag and have it on their vehicles.

Given the license revenue performance and our view that the company is moving in the right direction, we would be buying shares on weakness today.

For sentimental reasons, she wanted the front license plate and the steering wheel to make a clock with.

For Mr. Potter to still claim ? with a straight face ? that as the license holder he still did nothing wrong is laughable, ... He put someone in charge he could not trust and gee, it was not his fault. That's bull.

If a student gets his or her carpenter's license or cosmetology license, the state would consider them proficient with their trade.

If all the ducks are lined in a row, these casinos can open the doors as soon as the conditional license is received.

I believe that people have a right to decide their own destiny; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy, government exists because (and only as long as) individual citizens give it a "temporary license to exist" - in exchange for a promise that it will behave itself. In a democracy you own the government - it doesn't own you. Along with this comes a responsibility to ensure that individual actions, in the pursuit of a personal destiny, do not threaten the well-being of others while the "pursuit" is in progress.

Certainly, content companies are taking that position now of, I'm not sure I want to license it to you. I may want to license it to somebody else, that's willing to pay me a better market or I have more freedom, or whatever it may be.

I don't believe there are mobs coming up the street at closing time, ... It is the responsibility of the license holder to control the patrons leaving his establishment.

Basically, our license to travel to Cuba had been revoked and all applications for a renewal for a license would be denied. In other words, you can't go to Cuba anymore and don't bother trying. You needed a license to be able to spend money in Cuba.

To continue to foster consistency between both licensing programs, Microsoft has decided to make available for the desktop protocols the same reference license for source code it is offering for server protocols, and the company will provide competition authorities in the United States with information so they can consider the matter.

To get a barbering license, a license to be a cosmetologist, a license to be a plumber or electrician in this state, you can't have a criminal record.

He's a good guy. He was moving from house to house, and the traveling license did not work in New York City.

We submitted our 2006 license renewal with possible expansion should we choose to do so in the future. We have permitted 100 additional acres, but we don't know if we will expand.

We take that basic model and license brands names, in this case Marvel, to create a branded ISP service fans can sign up for.

I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but she had to pull the emergency brake so obviously there was a problem. I remember them handing me my fail paper and me just bursting into tears.

We may get to the license becoming a historical footnote of how software business was done.

He wanted to see a Virgin-branded airline fly in the U.S., but he realized the only way to do that was to license the trademark and cede control to U.S. investors.

Had we known ... then what we know now, we wouldn't have approved the license -- no question.

He was always the first to learn lyrics to new songs, and he remembered everyone's birthdays and anniversaries. That, plus car license numbers. He knew it all. He would always remind us if an important date was coming up.

He went to two branches within 10 to 15 minutes of each other and took me for about 20 grand. It was an hour and a half from where I'm from. I'd never been to the branches in my life. He had a forged driver's license from Ohio. He got me.

God may not accept a person to forgive him his sins, without an atonement, else he must give free license to sin both in angels and men, and then sin were no sin, and our God were no God.

Underneath it all, if you normalize the numbers, we continue to show good growth in our license business,

He had a handicapped license plate, and they could have seen he wasn't going to be able to fight back. They could have asked him to get out of the car and he would have.

My opinion is that anyone repeatedly driving DUI has an illness, and that illness is called alcoholism, ... Now, you've got someone with a disease, and you take away their license, and you have someone with an alcohol addiction with no license getting behind the wheel of a car. That's an additional crime, so you'll have someone going to jail. ? Now you've broken up the family and taken away the breadwinner.

I went into radio in 1965 when I got a license for CJOR 600 AM. It was my second business.

Some of those pilots were very high-time pilots, with the best airline transport rating, which is the highest license a pilot can have, ... Some of them were only transport pilots with many thousands of hours of flying time that could not manage to fly this airplane.

I said before I'm not going to be the one to move the franchise. There's a possibility that could happen if we don't get the license and the arena doesn't get built.

I said can you please get us some help. She's gasping for air. He kept saying license and registration.

Spending the hard-earned dollars of a constituency that supports a state government agency with license purchases, registration fees and other forms of revenue generation requires the utmost integrity and ethical circumspection.

People who represent drunk drivers know that all you have to do is then go to the Registry of Motor Vehicles and show a hardship, and you get your license back,

Planning is thinking beforehand how something is to be made or done, and mixing imagination with the product - which in a broad sense makes all of us planners. The only difference is that some people get a license to get paid for thinking and the rest of us just contribute our good thoughts to our fellow man.

Playing gangsters is great. They usually dress you sharp. And you have a license to pretty much bully anybody. I mean, I wouldn't dare do that at home. My wife will give me a back hander.

Our parking lot has had license plates from surrounding states. ... It's had regional appeal, ... I think it's been wonderfully successful in every aspect, and it has generated significant economic impact for us here in the center and downtown.