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Permission marketing is marketing without interruptions. Votes: 3

Seth Godin

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Nobody can hurt me without my permission. Votes: 3

Mahatma Gandhi

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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another. Votes: 3

Madonna Ciccone

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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. Votes: 3

Arnold Bennett

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Permission marketing turns strangers into friends and friends into loyal customers. It's not just about entertainment - it's about education. Permission marketing is curriculum marketing. Votes: 3

Seth Godin

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As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others. Votes: 3

Marianne Williamson

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Permission from the government is an expensive commodity. New ideas rarely have this kind of support. Old ideas often have deep legislative connections to defend them against the new. Votes: 3

Lawrence Lessig

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Private travel into foreign countries can be requested without conditions [...]. Permission will be granted instantly. Permanent relocations can be done through all border checkpoints between the GDR into the FRG or Berlin (West). Votes: 3

Gunter Schabowski

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The world needs women who stop asking for permission from the principal. Permission to live their lives as they deeply know they often should. I think we still look to authority figures for validation, recognition, permission. Votes: 3

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Stop Looking for Permission to Be Yourself. The true individual is no more concerned over what others may think of him or her than is the sun troubled by people complaining that it's too warm, or that it shines too bright! Votes: 3

Guy Finley

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We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. Votes: 3

Ayn Rand

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If I ever wear a Chelsea shirt, you have permission to kill me. Votes: 2

Cesc Fabregas

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It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. Votes: 2

Grace Hopper

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Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be. Votes: 2

Joy Page

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When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back. Votes: 2

Charles Krauthammer

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Give yourself permission to smile a lot today. In fact, why not make it a habit! Votes: 2

Iyanla Vanzant

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As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. Votes: 2

Nelson Mandela

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Your heart beats 72 times a minute. Every time it beats, it does so with the permission of its Creator. Votes: 2

Khurram Murad

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I give myself permission to be all that I can be, and I deserve the very best in life. Votes: 2

Louise Hay

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If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologise than it is to get permission. Votes: 2

Grace Hopper

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If your stories are all about your products and services, that's not storytelling. It's a brochure. Give yourself permission to make the story bigger. Votes: 2

Jay Baer

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No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it. Votes: 2

Theodore Roosevelt

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Give people, including yourself, clear permission to make mistakes . . . and to fix the problems. Since nobody's perfect, mistakes should be allowed. Cover-ups shouldn't. Cover-ups create twice the trouble. Votes: 2

Price Pritchett

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Give yourself permission to immediately walk away from anything that gives you bad vibes. there is no need to explain or make sense of it. just trust what you feel. Votes: 2

Sonia Choquette

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When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. God is more there than thou: for thou art there Only by his permission. Then beware, That leads from earth to heaven. Votes: 2

George Herbert

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There's no need to wait for the bad things and bullshit to be over. Change now. Love now. Live now. Don't wait for people to give you permission to live, because they won't. Votes: 2

Kris Carr

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It's important that we share our experiences with other people. Your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else. When you tell your story, you free yourself and give other people permission to acknowledge their own story Votes: 2

Iyanla Vanzant

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Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss. Votes: 1

Pat Riley

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Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility. Votes: 1

Terri Apter

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It puts limits on criminals' rights to destroy unborn children without the permission of the woman. Votes: 1

Lindsey Graham

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If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission. Votes: 1

Grace Hopper

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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic. Votes: 1

Lana Del Rey

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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. Votes: 1

Danny DeVito

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It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done. Votes: 1

Robert South

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When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission. Votes: 1

Janet Echelman

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All of these reissues were not authorized by me, I do not endorse them, the live album was put out without my permission, and I've not seen a dime at this point, either. Votes: 1

Jello Biafra

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I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that. Votes: 1

Barbara Feldon

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Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds. Votes: 1

Regina Brett

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Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the child a deep, almost somatic conviction that there is meaning in what they are doing. Votes: 1

Erik Erikson

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My main piece of advice would be don't worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also don't be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and don't be afraid. Votes: 1

David Levithan

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It's actually very freeing to be given permission as an artist to let that ride and to really let it ride, to actually experience it and bring it out of you. It's been uncomfortable and it's freeing at the same time. Votes: 1

Josh Holloway

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Build your self-esteem by recalling all the ways you have succeeded, and your brain will be filled with images of you making your achievements happen again and again. Give yourself permission to toot your own horn, and don't wait for anyone to praise you. Votes: 1

Jack Canfield

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At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin. Votes: 1

Rita Levi-Montalcini

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I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay. Votes: 1

Iyanla Vanzant

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For me, when I go to bed at night, I am happy that I haven't hurt someone. And if I think I have, I will rectify it. I now refuse to give someone permission to make me feel bad about myself. They can't make me feel bad about myself if I don't allow it. Votes: 1

Lucy Davis

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Trust gives you the permission to give people direction, get everyone aligned, and give them the energy to go get the job done. Trust enables you to execute with excellence and produce extraordinary results. As you execute with excellence and deliver on your commitments, trust becomes easier to inspire, creating a flywheel of performance. Votes: 1

Douglas Conant

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I try to take a weekly digital Sabbath, batch my emails so I deal with them a few times a day rather than constantly, and increasingly give myself permission to ignore unsolicited communiques. I try, too, to give others more slack. The respond-now culture is a two-way street. I'm trying to be more mindful of that. Votes: 1

Noreena Hertz

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Love rarely waits for permission. Votes: 0

Catherynne M. Valente

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Don't ask permission, just ask forgiveness. Votes: 0

Drake

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Never seek permission to be yourself. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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Life, the permission to know death. Votes: 0

Djuna Barnes

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Poetry gives you permission to feel. Votes: 0

James Autry

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Don't seek permission to be happy. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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Never ask for permission to smile. Votes: 0

Sam Killermann

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You can't hurt me without my permission. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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Mozart's music gives us permission to live. Votes: 0

John Updike

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Never ask for permission, beg for forgiveness. Votes: 0

Bobbi Brown

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You don't have permission to disrespect yourself. Votes: 0

Martin de Maat

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It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission. Votes: 0

Bill Bowerman

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Don't wait for permission to do something creative. Votes: 0

Ava DuVernay

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Be confident. Don't seek permission to be yourself. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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So parents, get your children's permission to watch! Votes: 0

Triple H

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Give yourself permission to make the story bigger. Votes: 0

Jay Baer

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I give people permission to be kids again. Votes: 0

Richard Simmons

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I always say, better ask forgiveness than permission. Votes: 0

Christopher Paolini

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It's easier to apologize than ask for permission. Votes: 0

Grace Hopper

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A strong gives forgiveness but weak gives permission. Votes: 0

Santosh Kalwar

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No one can insult you without your permission. Votes: 0

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Music is admitted under the skin without permission. Votes: 0

Jon Foreman

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Hope does not leave without being given permission. Votes: 0

Rick Riordan

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We crave permission openly to become our secret selves. Votes: 0

Salman Rushdie

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Start writing sooner. Don't wait for permission. Don't hesitate. Votes: 0

Robin Hobb

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Nothing happens to man without the permission of God ... Votes: 0

Euripides

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Give yourself permission to do what you've always wanted. Votes: 0

Chris Guillebeau

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Linking without permission is stealing. Period, end of story. Votes: 0

Mark Cuban

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Don't ask for anyone's permission to follow your dreams Votes: 0

Jared Leto

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It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission. Votes: 0

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Free men do not ask permission to bear arms Votes: 0

Thomas Jefferson

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It is easier to apologize than to get permission. Votes: 0

Grace Hopper

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If you're a strong female, you don't need permission. Votes: 0

Lady Gaga

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It was easier to ask for forgiveness than permission? Votes: 0

Kate Brian

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It's better to ask forgiveness than permission. - Brom Votes: 0

Christopher Paolini

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Just give yourself permission to tell the truth to yourself. Votes: 0

Iyanla Vanzant

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Authority is permission to spew platitudes to people below you. Votes: 0

Rob Payne

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Remember, no one can hurt your feelings without your permission Votes: 0

Ricky Gervais

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Besides, isn't it more exciting when you don't have permission? Votes: 0

M.I.A.

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You have permission to release all loyalties to past mistakes. Votes: 0

LaShaun Middlebrooks Collier

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When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives. Votes: 0

Steven Johnson

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Never give yourself permission to avoid doing what is right. Votes: 0

Mario Daniel Vega

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No one can upset you, unless you give them permission. Votes: 0

Paul Robert Hanna

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You have permission to release your loyalty to past mistakes Votes: 0

LaShaun Middlebrooks Collier

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It's easier to ask forgiveness than to beg for permission. Votes: 0

Lora Leigh

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No one can take advantage of you without your permission. Votes: 0

Ann Landers

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Took over my city and I never asked permission to. Votes: 0

Drake

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To break training without permission is an act of treason. Votes: 0

John Heisman

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The pike does not ask the frog's permission before dining. Votes: 0

Robert Jordan

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My son gave me the permission to accept my success. Votes: 0

Gary Burghoff

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Don't look for society to give you permission to be yourself. Votes: 0

Steve Maraboli

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Don't look for society to give you permission to be yourself. Votes: 0

Roger Babson

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Somehow I evolved into a person who ceased to ask permission. Votes: 0

Sonia Johnson

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You don't need anybody's permission to prove yourself, just prove yourself. Votes: 0

Amit Kalantri

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You don't need planning permission to build castles in the sky Votes: 0

Banksy

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It was more exciting when I didn't know I had permission. Votes: 0

Patrick Rothfuss

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To love someone, why do you need society's approval and permission? Votes: 0

Ai Yazawa

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Blast Cecil!â said Eldric. "You have my permission," said. Votes: 0

Franny Billingsley

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I am giving myself permission to love - ALL of it. Votes: 0

Brenda Strong

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I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed. Votes: 0

Edie McClurg

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No one can steal your love, joy, and happiness without your permission. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941. Votes: 0

Jack Adams

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I'm reluctant to draw many conclusions from private correspondence leaked without permission. Votes: 0

John I. Jenkins

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When you're the strong one, people don't give you permission to hurt. Votes: 0

Iyanla Vanzant

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All business begins with the public permission and exists by public approval Votes: 0

Arthur W. Page

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Record companies, I found out, can put out compilations without your permission. Votes: 0

Pink

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Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility. Votes: 0

Bill Vaughan

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She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream. Votes: 0

Toni Cade Bambara

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Giving God permission to make you a saint will ruin your life. Votes: 0

Mark Hart

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Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another. Votes: 0

Madonna

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Conflicts stay in your mind with your permission.You allow them to. Votes: 0

Hina Hashmi

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Can I cut off your head?" "Are you asking for my permission? Votes: 0

Amanda Hocking

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Don't ask permission. If it does not work, you can apologize later. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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Seize the moment " don't wait for anyone to give you permission. Votes: 0

Josette Sheeran

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Did Indira Gandhi ask for somebody's permission to carry out the test in 1974? Votes: 0

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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Those wanting to improve democracy in their countries should not wait for permission. Votes: 0

Bulent Ecevit

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Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later. Votes: 0

Seth Godin

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It is better to ask for an apology than to ask for permission. Votes: 0

Christopher Paolini

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I should've been very cross with Anubis. Kissing me without permission"the nerve! Votes: 0

Rick Riordan

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You may have trouble getting permission to aero or lithobrake asteroids on Earth. Votes: 0

James Nicoll

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Ask forgiveness, not permission. But make sure you bring your results with you. Votes: 0

Amy Jo Martin

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No one has to give you permission to make music or make art. Votes: 0

Jared Leto

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I think genius can have a lot to do with nerve. And permission. Votes: 0

Kate Zambreno

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Nature does not ask permission. Blossom and birth whenever you feel like it. Votes: 0

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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The U.N. can meet and discuss, but we don't need their permission. Votes: 0

Andrew Card

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Don't ask permission to be happy. Don't beg for forgiveness. Just do it. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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A person doesn't ask permission to fall in love; not even of themselves. Votes: 0

Ann Rinaldi

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A copying artist should get permission or pay the original artist a fee. Votes: 0

Oliver $

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Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission. Votes: 0

Joseph Sobran

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You don't need anyone's permission to be exactly who you want to be Votes: 0

Hayley Williams

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Army requests immediate permission to surrender in order to save lives of remaining troops. Votes: 0

Friedrich Paulus

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The human Soul will only find its Light,when the Ego gives its permission. Votes: 0

C.C. Campbell

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America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people. Votes: 0

George W. Bush

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I sought the advice and cooperation from all those around me- but not permission. Votes: 0

Muhammad Ali

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Sometimes to be creative you have to give yourself permission to not be outstanding. Votes: 0

James K. A. Smith

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Never let haters 'still' your flow. They can only do so with your permission. Votes: 0

T.F. Hodge

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Part of maintaining a thriving creative culture is giving people time and permission to play. Votes: 0

Tim Brown

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But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission. Votes: 0

Hermann Hesse

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I do think a founder has special permission to make sweeping changes across an organization. Votes: 0

Michael Dell

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I give permission for IBM, its customers, partners, and minions, to use JSLint for evil. Votes: 0

Douglas Crockford

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Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission. Votes: 0

Cormac McCarthy

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Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you can choose to be. Votes: 0

Joy Page

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Nobody on the face of the earth can make you feel inferior without your permission. Votes: 0

Zig Ziglar

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Once you give an NFL player permission to have thoughts, you invite all kinds of mischief. Votes: 0

Matt Taibbi

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I shouldn't have to ask for your permission for me to put you in my lie! Votes: 0

Kevin Hart

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They did not ask my permission for their mediocrity, why should I ask theirs for excellence? Votes: 0

Murad S. Shah

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I was an accomplished computer trespasser. I don't consider myself a thief. I copied without permission. Votes: 0

Kevin Mitnick

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...that's how memory works ... Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission. Votes: 0

Kristin Cashore

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Loving someone gives them permission to do things to you because they know you'll forgive them. -Shaye Votes: 0

Gena Showalter

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Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission. Votes: 0

Jerry Pournelle

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Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends? Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Itâs not about finding your voice, itâs about giving yourself permission to use your voice. Votes: 0

Kris Carr

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Women should not need a permission slip from government to take care of their own reproductive health. Votes: 0

Nina Turner

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Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission. Votes: 0

Patricia Schroeder

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You just need that opening, that moment, when you finally decide to give yourself permission to change. Votes: 0

Tosca Reno

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Give people permission to be who they are and they will love, thank, and respect you forever. Votes: 0

Alan Cohen

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Maybe the best thing we can do for our spouses is give them permission to forgive themselves. Votes: 0

Justin Davis

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I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments. Votes: 0

William Lilly

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The people who are going to be succeeding are not going to be waiting around for anyone's permission. Votes: 0

Alexis Ohanian

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Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him. Votes: 0

Karlheinz Stockhausen

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People finally have permission to be human in the context of their work. That's the real Internet story. Votes: 0

Christopher Locke

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Music - it's the only thing that can enter your system, your mind, your heart, without your permission. Votes: 0

Emmanuel Jal

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You've got to take risks if you're going to succeed. I would much rather ask forgiveness than permission. Votes: 0

Richard Branson

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I really hope that people feel permission to talk about their own troubles, but also to celebrate themselves. Votes: 0

Morgan Parker

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I have permission to live off campus." She didn't say from whom, because it was primarily herself. Votes: 0

Rachel Caine

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If I ever start talking to you about my 'craft', my 'instrument', you have permission to shoot me. Votes: 0

Drew Barrymore

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Perfection is an illusion. Allow yourself room to make mistakes and permission to be happy regardless of outcome. Votes: 0

Dawn Gluskin

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It may be easier to get forgiveness than permission, but trust is harder to get back than both. Votes: 0

Ingrid Weir

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In some ways, blogging is like drinking - it gives a person permission to be a total asshole. Votes: 0

Augusten Burroughs

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Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought. Votes: 0

Os Guinness

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You need to get one thing done well, or else you don't have permission to do anything else. Votes: 0

Larry Page

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Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate. Votes: 0

Peggy McIntosh

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Pull yourself together. People among the living still need your help, and I haven't given you permission to quit. Votes: 0

Ann Aguirre

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Without asking her permission, someone is trying to intrude her life, draw her attention, in short, to bother her. Votes: 0

Milan Kundera

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The Commerce Clause has already been inflated so much that we basically can't do anything without the government's permission. Votes: 0

Alex Epstein

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Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy. Votes: 0

Amy Vanderbilt

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People around the world are confusing the therapeutic value of self-expression with permission to manipulate others with their wounds. Votes: 0

Caroline Myss

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I spend a lot of my time looking into people's bags and handbags - with their permission, of course. Votes: 0

Jan Chipchase

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When God saves you, he doesn't do it because you gave him permission. He did it because he's God. Votes: 0

Matt Chandler

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I told him there was one city that they must not bomb without my permission and that was Kyoto. Votes: 0

Henry L. Stimson

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You simply collapsed, sir. In layman's terms, your body revoked its permission for you to continue heaping abuse upon it. Votes: 0

Scott Lynch

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One way to sell a consumer something in the future is simply to get his or her permission in advance. Votes: 0

Seth Godin

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Write yourself a permission slip to be surprised by someone's potential. Who knows? One day that person could be you. Votes: 0

Sherri Shepherd

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When you recognize that failing doesn't make you a failure, you give yourself permission to try all sorts of things. Votes: 0

Lauren Fleshman

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I performed stand-up because I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. My set was never joke-centric. It was a performance. Votes: 0

Michael Keaton

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I was reading all these male writers who were doing wild and wonderful things. It gave me permission to experiment. Votes: 0

Sandra Cisneros

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A certain kind of permission is given to live differently, to conceptualize and to act according to a new conceptualization. Votes: 0

Judith Butler

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The only permission, the only validation, and the only opinion that matters in our quest for greatness is our own. Votes: 0

Steve Maraboli

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To be famous is to stand on a pedestal and give the world permission to tell you all your flaws. Votes: 0

Chris Colfer

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We ought not to quit our post without the permission of Him who commands; the post of man is life. Votes: 0

Pythagoras

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The Internet of Money, bitcoin, is releasing 50 yrs. of pent up innovation in finance, because it offers innovation without permission. Votes: 0

Andreas Antonopoulos

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Listen to me. They may control what you do, but no one can pee on your soul without your permission. Votes: 0

A.S. King

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Give yourself permission to shoot for something that seems totally beyond your grasp. You may be surprised at your capabilities Votes: 0

Danica Patrick

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Anything is possible, and that's something we should not lose sight of. The inspiration and the permission to dream is huge. Votes: 0

Randy Pausch

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If you decide that you cannot beat a temptation, what you are really doing is giving yourself permission to be irresponsible. Votes: 0

Gary Zukav

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Telling computer guys that they need to have permission to quote things is like having to tell little children about Death. Votes: 0

Ted Nelson

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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose--not to need permission for desire--well now _that_ was freedom. Votes: 0

Toni Morrison

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Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones. Votes: 0

Jacques Roumain

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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. Votes: 0

Ben Affleck

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In China, much of life involves skirting regulations, and one of the basic truths is that forgiveness comes easier than permission. Votes: 0

Peter Hessler

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...the reason is that when we look at nature, we receive a sort of permission to be alive in this world... Votes: 0

Naoki Higashida

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We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated. Votes: 0

Seth Godin

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Stop looking for permission to pursue your dreams! They are YOUR dreams and you don't need a co-signer to chase them! Votes: 0

Eric Thomas

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Saying "yes" doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying "please" doesn't mean I am waiting for permission. Votes: 0

Amy Poehler

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Mad people = People who stand alone and burn. I'm attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same. Votes: 0

Susan Sontag

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I feel bad for those who cannot do anything, not even to have fun... without first seeking the permission of others. Votes: 0

Ali B. Moe

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One of the greatest rewards that we ever receive for serving God is the permission to do still more for Him. Votes: 0

Charles Spurgeon

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Once you have permission to talk to someone, finding new products or services for them is a smart way to grow. Votes: 0

Seth Godin

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Being a comedy writer gives you permission to be an outsider and poke fun at what people think about other people. Votes: 0

Michael Patrick King

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Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs? Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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We like what we like, we want what we want, and nobody needs to give us permission to feel that way! Votes: 0

Scott Lynch

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If a guy wants to take me out, he must seek my dad's permission first. That's just the way it works. Votes: 0

Shilpa Shetty

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Infinite money is available to a mind that is ready, willing, able, qualified and gives itself permission to earn and accept it. Votes: 0

Mark Victor Hansen

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I take the view that we all have permission to be a little baffled by quantum information science and algorithmic information theory. Votes: 0

James Gleick

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And I never felt that good in my life. But I also felt bad because I saw her naked without her permission. Votes: 0

Stephen Chbosky

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Give yourself permission to be happy. It doesn't matter what's going on around you, what matters is what's going on inside you. Votes: 0

Hal Elrod

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Reality doesn't wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does. Votes: 0

Byron Katie

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Magic is not a practice. It is a living, breathing web of energy that, with our permission, can encase our every action. Votes: 0

Dorothy Morrison

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Bootstrapping is a way to do something about the problems you have without letting someone else give you permission to do them. Votes: 0

Tom Preston-Werner

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Remember always, everyone has a place of perfect belonging, and if they leave that place without permission, sometimes they must be returned. Votes: 0

Jessica Shirvington

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If there is someone in your life who is not serving you or making you better, give yourself permission to move on. Votes: 0

Niecy Nash

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It's just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission. Votes: 0

Sara Zarr

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Music is powerful. It is the only thing that can speak into your mind, your heart and your soul without your permission. Votes: 0

Emmanuel Jal

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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. Votes: 0

Noah Hawley

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We really don't need the United Nations approval to act. When it comes to our security, we do not need anyones permission. Votes: 0

George W. Bush

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Before you begin your day: Take a moment of silence and meditation, and give yourself permission to have all that you desire. Votes: 0

Debbie Ford

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Freedom isn't about having permission to do whatever we want... it's about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning. Votes: 0

Bill Crawford

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You give yourself permission to be the person you want to be, the artist you want to be, no matter what your circumstances! Votes: 0

Jill Eikenberry

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There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission. Votes: 0

Prince

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It's about you, giving yourself permission to be who you are, without giving a rip about what anybody else is thinking about it. Votes: 0

Esther Hicks

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The things the writers have me doing on 'Suburgatory' are insane. I think they think it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. Votes: 0

Cheryl Hines

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I've learned lately that no one is going to hand me a permission slip and tell me to take time out for me. Votes: 0

Wynonna Judd

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If just one person touches you without your permission, stepping back and saying clearly, "Please don't touch me" should get them to stop. Votes: 0

Mallory Ortberg

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Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they're waiting for someone to say, 'You're good, you're pretty, I give you permission'. Votes: 0

Eve Ensler

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Give yourself permission 2 evolve. Become a philosopher; come up with your own interpretation of life and stop accepting someone else's as your truth. Votes: 0

Germany Kent

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Problems should be solved on the spot, as soon as they arise. No front-line employee should have to wait for a supervisor's permission Votes: 0

Jan Carlzon

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Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they're waiting for someone to say, 'You're good, you're pretty, I give you permission.' Votes: 0

Eve Ensler

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To be given permission to be confused -- and remain confused -- for as long as it takes would have been a huge gift. Votes: 0

Janet Jackson

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You now have permission to be strong and healthy and calm and relaxed. There's no place else to go. There's nothing else to do. Votes: 0

Brad Willis

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If you are always allowed to stop training whenever you feel discomfort, you will find it too easy to give yourself permission to quit. Votes: 0

Jet Li

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There's something really magical about having a child - it's like permission to begin again, start over, reevaluate some things, check yourself. Recognize yourself. Votes: 0

Jill Scott

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Imagine if you borrowed your parents' car without permission and ran it into a tree, how much better you'd feel if you were incorporated. Votes: 0

Peter Lynch

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My peer would have to be dark-haired and handsome, a wonderful dancer... and he would never ask permission before he kissed me." -Lillian Bowman Votes: 0

Lisa Kleypas

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Grant yourself permission to have all that life has to offer, and you will discover it has more to offer than you've ever imagined. Votes: 0

Neale Donald Walsch

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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. Votes: 0

Rafael Casal

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When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone. Votes: 0

George O'Neil

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I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission. Votes: 0

Tom Hayden

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People take conventional ways that other people have always decorated their cars, and use them as ways of giving other people permission to approach them. Votes: 0

Chuck Palahniuk

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Give yourself permission to dream. Fuel your kids' dreams too. Once in a while, that might even mean letting them stay up past their bedtimes. Votes: 0

Randy Pausch

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The United States could transform its property tax system into a progressive tax on net worth without asking permission to the rest of the world. Votes: 0

Thomas Piketty

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The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission Votes: 0

Grace Hopper

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Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system. Votes: 0

Lars Ulrich

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Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are. Votes: 0

Gillian Flynn

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Acting gives you cosmic permission to take a trip in movies that lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the film is finished. Votes: 0

Scott Glenn

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We donât go to Scripture for permission to do what we think is best, but for direction to do what He says is best. Votes: 0

David Platt

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When happiness becomes our standard for judging truth, things that make us happy give us permission to do some things that otherwise would be considered wrong. Votes: 0

Craig Groeschel

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The tougher the form the easier it is for me to handle the poem, because the form gives permission to be very gut honest about feelings. Votes: 0

Maxine Kumin

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If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing. Votes: 0

Edward Burnett Tylor

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I think women are taught to ask permission about everything. We don't realize that we are entitled and we do have a say in our lives. Votes: 0

Doris Roberts

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The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal. Votes: 0

Al Gore

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If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain ... their permission to continue kowtowing. Votes: 0

Celia Green

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Just make sure you're gone by the time we get to Miles's. It creeps me out to see you sitting in his lap without his permission. Votes: 0

Alyson Noel

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Where do you go to get permission to make a dent in the Universe ? If you think there's a chance you can make a dent, go ! Votes: 0

Seth Godin

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The individual can take initiatives without anybody's permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment. Votes: 0

R. Buckminster Fuller

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Give yourself permission to enjoy being gay. You do have to give yourself permission. You have been told you may not. Give yourself permission to be free. Votes: 0

Harry Hay

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Poor is the man whose future depends on the opinions and permission of others. Remember this, if you are afraid of criticism, you will die doing nothing! Votes: 0

Andy Andrews

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Life is a terminal condition. Were all going to die. Cancer patients just have more information, but we all, in some ways, wait for permission to live. Votes: 0

Kris Carr

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And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so. Votes: 0

A. B. Yehoshua

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Whatever is not done by the permission of Allah will not happen, and what is not done for the sake of Allah will not benefit or remain. Votes: 0

Ibn Taymiyyah

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How we live our lives gives those we love permission to do the same. That is a power and a responsibility that we can never take lightly. Votes: 0

Hal Elrod

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What do you mean I have to wait for someone's approval? I'm someone. I approve. So I give myself permission to move forward with my full support! Votes: 0

Richelle E. Goodrich

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You wait until life is in the frame, then you have the permission to click. I like the adventure of waiting until the whole frame is full. Votes: 0

Robert Rauschenberg

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A lot of the best work I've ever done started out as something completely different because I gave myself permission to have space around my time and expectations. Votes: 0

Merlin Mann

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What Alpha offers, and what is attracting thousands of people, is permission, rare in secular culture, to discuss the big questions - life and death and their meaning. Votes: 0

Madeleine Bunting

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I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to be abstract' no problem at all. Votes: 0

Robert Motherwell

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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. Votes: 0

Phyllis Schlafly

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Sometimes it's better not to ask-or to listen-when tell you something can't be done. I didn't ask for permission or approval. I just went ahead and did it. Votes: 0

Michael Dell

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Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent. Votes: 0

Dennis Prager

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I've been in a lot of indie movies, where we didn't necessarily have permits or permission. I've even run from the cops in the New York City subways! Votes: 0

Gillian Jacobs

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In my family, there was one parent you asked for money and the other for permission to do things. You could never get both out of one parent. Votes: 0

Julianne Moore

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But that's how memory works," Bitterblue said quietly. "Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission." And sometimes they came back incomplete and warped. Votes: 0

Kristin Cashore

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When you give your weakness permission to be because you understand that it is simply an expression of your strength, it tends to no longer be a weakness. Votes: 0

Chris Matakas

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I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else Votes: 0

Robert Rauschenberg

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The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it? Votes: 0

William Temple

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I've been waiting for someone to sign the permission slip for me to write about sex. In the meantime, I've written about sex in all my books anyway. Votes: 0

Meg Wolitzer

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I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission. Votes: 0

Francis Ford Coppola

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When people who believe themselves to be addicts or alcoholics come under great stress or trauma, they mentally give themselves permission to drink or use drugs as a remedy. Votes: 0

Chris Prentiss

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Requesting permission from someone to be honest is really a way of accusing the other person of being so demanding or overbearing that you couldn't be honest all along. Votes: 0

Walter Kirn

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This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal. Votes: 0

R. A. Salvatore

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You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it. Votes: 0

Anatoly Chubais

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George Bush doesn't care about black people... They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food... they're giving the (Army) permission to shoot us. Votes: 0

Kanye West

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In many countries, laws still work to women's disadvantage - for example, by requiring married women to obtain their husbands' permission to register a business, own property, or work. Votes: 0

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

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It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people. Votes: 0

Julie Walters

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I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused to give me this permission. Votes: 0

Fritz Sauckel

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We had to give each other permission to be different as parents. That's why there's a mom and a dad with two different approaches, because you do need both. Votes: 0

Bridgette Wilson

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I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody. Votes: 0

Shane Carruth

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Before, I used to ask permission to my parents to leave the house. Now it's - I ask permission to my children to leave the house. They own the house. Votes: 0

Ricky Martin

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My first obsession was actually sports. I was a very good handball goalkeeper. With special permission, I played in the premier league in Germany before I was even old enough. Votes: 0

Peter Lindbergh

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The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one's willingness to give oneself permission. To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot. Votes: 0

Bill Drayton

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No person shall preach without the permission of his Superior. All preachers shall explain the Gospel according to the Fathers. They shall not explain futurity or the times of Antichrist! Votes: 0

Pope Leo X

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The big one I missed out on was 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' MGM wanted me for it, and Warner Bros. wouldn't give me permission to do it. Votes: 0

Carroll Baker

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Pray for whatsoever you will. In the name of Jesus you have permission, not only to stand in the presence of God, but also to pray for everything you need. Votes: 0

Ole Hallesby

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Hearts aren't handcuffs and people aren't prisons. When you feel it's time for you to leave, you leave. You neither need to wait to be released, nor ask for permission. Votes: 0

Beau Taplin

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I try and keep busy with something, but I also give myself permission to be busy with something that is creative and rewarding, not just the errands to the dry cleaner. Votes: 0

Eric Lange

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It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed Mommy and Daddy's permission, blessings, and money to survive. Votes: 0

Erma Bombeck

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NaNo[ National Novel Writing Month] is an awesome opportunity to stretch your writing muscles and gives you permission to write in a way you probably wouldn't do in a normal circumstance. Votes: 0

Michelle J. Howard

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We must learn to give ourselves permission to blunder, to fail, and to make fools of ourselves every day for the rest of our lives. We do so in any case. Votes: 0

Sheldon B. Kopp

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What would your head have been doing in Hogsmeade, Potter?" said Snape softly. "Your head is not allowed in Hogsmeade. No part of your body has permission to be in Hogsmeade. Votes: 0

J. K. Rowling

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As far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly. Votes: 0

John Green

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Why should I need a prescription to spit into a vial and get my DNA read? Why can't I get my own blood drawn without a doctor's permission? It's my blood. Votes: 0

Anne Wojcicki

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If there was one truth Evie had learned in her short life, it was that forgiveness was easier to seek than permission. She didnât plan to ask for either one. Votes: 0

Libba Bray

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You and I, the people of God, have permission to come before the throne of Heaven at any time we will, and we are encouraged to come there with great boldness. Votes: 0

Charles Spurgeon

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Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping. Votes: 0

Chuck Palahniuk

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I am not interested in releasing best of stuff and I have not given my permission. You release best of packages when you're a has-been and have nothing new to offer. Votes: 0

Amanda Lear

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I feel very confident that Americans flying in the air are safe and that only under the most dire of circumstances would our pilots ever even request permission to do that. Votes: 0

Hugh Shelton

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Essentialism: only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter. Votes: 0

Greg McKeown

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It is important to remember that when it comes to law, computers never make copies, only human beings make copies. Computers are given commands, not permission. Only people can be given permission. Votes: 0

Brad Templeton

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Let me define prayer for you in this show. Prayer is man giving God permission or license to interfere in earth's affairs. In other words, prayer is earthly license for heavenly interference. Votes: 0

Myles Munroe

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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. Votes: 0

Thomas Mars

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Nothing in the outer world makes you feel any way. You decide what you want to feel, and then use outer people and events as permission slips to execute your feeling agenda. Votes: 0

Alan Cohen

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I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass. Votes: 0

Edward Norton

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Angelo Badalamenti brought me into the world of music and that's really what gave me permission to get into it even though I'm not a musician. It's just an intuitive thing for me. Votes: 0

David Lynch

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When I invented the web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA. Votes: 0

Tim Berners-Lee

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In 1964, when we first arrived in New York City, I remember vividly seeing the skyline of Manhattan, and our first proposal of 1964 was to wrap two lower Manhattan buildings. We never got permission. Votes: 0

Christo

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During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair. Votes: 0

Patrick Stewart

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I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Strout

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I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please don't even bother asking. Don't bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it. Votes: 0

Peter Dinklage

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Develop a mailing list... anyone who comes through your studio or meets you at art shows or anywhere. It's the power of permission-based marketing. Email your latest work to the list, every month. Votes: 0

Cory Trepanier

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I seem to vaguely remember a time when America had confidence. And guts. And soldiers fighting a war didn't need to be given "permission" to defend themselves from enemies trying to kill them. Votes: 0

Charles Foster Johnson

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In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you can come to a lot of meanings within a short space. Votes: 0

Karen Russell

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The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty or judgmental about any other time, the better I feel about the quality of my work. Votes: 0

Wayne Dyer

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I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface. Votes: 0

Chadwick Boseman

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I have been given permission to announce that I and others from All My Children have been approached by the company Prospect Park, who bought AMC, with the intention to move it online. Votes: 0

Cameron Mathison

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Because the completion of labour service was a precondition for permission to study at the university, I was able to begin my studies of Germanistics and Classical Philology during the summer term of 1939. Votes: 0

Heinrich Boll

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Jesus said, "Teach all nations." He never said that we need governmental permission to evangelize. Faithfulness to God and the Great Commission compels us to reach beyond borders to people in restricted nations. Votes: 0

Richard Wurmbrand

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I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, and finally got permission to leave Oxford and do civilian work till the War ended. Votes: 0

Leonard Alfred George Strong

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There's been so much corruption and so much cronyism in the taxi industry and so much regulatory capture, that if you ask for permission upfront for something that's already legal, you'll never get it. Votes: 0

Travis Kalanick

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Because the worst of all worlds is when you pretend like you have an immigration policy, you make coming into the United States without our permission illegal, and then you actually don't enforce it. Votes: 0

Tom Tancredo

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People have to be given permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to be given time to develop and to reveal what they can do. Votes: 0

Toni Cade Bambara

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They babble and talk absurdly who, in the place of God's providence, substitute bare permission - as if God sat in a watchtower awaiting chance events , and his judgments thus depended upon human will. Votes: 0

John Calvin

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Democracy means doing whatever you want without asking permission of anybody but your boss, your doctor, your lawyer, your landlord, your bank, your city, your state and federal authorities, and your wife and children. Votes: 0

Sam Levenson

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If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day. Votes: 0

Banksy

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Originally, when I wrote the song 'The Sensual World' I had used text from the end of 'Ulysses.' When I asked for permission to use the text, I was refused, which was disappointing. Votes: 0

Kate Bush

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From the spring of 1941, I controlled all prices in the United States. You could lower a price without my permission, but you couldn't raise a price without my permission or that of my staff. Votes: 0

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well. Votes: 0

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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I definitely have to give myself permission, like on "Master Swarm," to rip a lead on that. Just play a violin solo that's - it's a bit showoff-y, but it's fun, so who cares? Votes: 0

Andrew Bird

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Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well. Votes: 0

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Not like a heart, which let people in without permission, held them in a special place she never had any say in and then yearned for them to remain there longer than they planned. Votes: 0

Cecelia Ahern

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There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission. Votes: 0

Jean Giraudoux

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To have a friend and a comrade as your co-star, especially in a romantic comedy, is really important. It gives you the room. It's easier to give yourself and the other person permission to play. Votes: 0

Alex O'Loughlin

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I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I'll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life. Votes: 0

Stevie Nicks

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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. Votes: 0

Ava DuVernay

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The most temptation I'd experienced had been with Tomas, the Senate's spy who had been feeding off me without permission, and Mircea, who was probably plotting some nefarious scheme. I have no taste in men. Votes: 0

Karen Chance

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Homeschooling will certainly produce some socially awkward adults, but the odds are good they would have been just as quirky had they spent twelve years raising their hand for permission to go to the bathroom. Votes: 0

Quinn Cummings

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The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified... and pick yourself. Votes: 0

Seth Godin

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You playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightening about shrinking so others won't feel insecure around you. As you let your own light shine, you indirectly give others permission to do the same. Votes: 0

Marianne Williamson

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So basically the understanding on these so-called reissues is that they were done behind my back, without my permission, and the band informed me that I would no longer be paid on them at all. Votes: 0

Jello Biafra

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Art is free, but of course you have to be alert to catch it when it comes onto the canvas. I don't choose the ideas, they choose me. I don't wait for them. They come without my permission!

Mirka Mora

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The truth is, whoever I've dated, if I've ever wanted to talk about them on stage, I've asked them first. And I've gotten their permission to tell a story or talk about them before I do it.

Amy Schumer

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What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.

Erica Jong

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My dean gave me permission to model during my work semester, even though I was in the Criminal Justice Department. I don't know whether I'd ever have become a model if he hadn't let me do that.

Beverly Johnson

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When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion...th at in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing-you may know that your society is doomed.

Ayn Rand

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Our time is fixed, and all our days are number'd; How long, how short, we know not:"this we know, Duty requires we calmly wait the summons, Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission.

Robert Blair

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People were always able to look at Bettie Page and see what they needed her to be and she gave them that permission to do so. So in that way she's a feminist but I don't think she was ever trying to be.

Gretchen Mol

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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

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No one can manage you if you don't give them permission to do so. But if you are interested in accomplishing as much as you are capable of, then I believe there are good reasons to grant that permission.

David Maister

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I think parents need to make sure they have parental controls and not have their credit card linked up to in-app purchases so their kids can just spend whenever they want to. They need to ask permission.

Kim Kardashian

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The first rule about a black womanâs hair is you donât talk about a black womanâs hair. And the second rule is you donât ever touch a black womanâs hair without getting written permission first.

Ben Aaronovitch

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Pity for these inhabitants, I have none. In the first place, they are rebels, and I am almost prepared to agree with Sherman that a rebel has no rights, not even the right to live except by our permission.

Charles Fessenden Morse

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What I love about writing is that you don't need anyone's permission to do it. You can just get up in the morning, grab a pad and pen and start writing. With acting you're really beholden to everyone else.

Leigh Whannell

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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

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The problem with acting is that there's really no control. You're at the behest of others. Everyone else decides if you did a good job and you have to wait for other people's permission to work as an actor.

Leigh Whannell

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In its permission to man to render subject to him all other living creatures of the earth, it continued the cruelty of the barbarian and the pagan, and endowed these with what appeared a divine authority ...

Ouida

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If, before undertaking some action, you must obtain the permission of society-you are not free, whether such permission is granted to you or not. Only a slave acts on permission. A permission is not a right.

Ayn Rand

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When you record for a label, they own that material in perpetuity, meaning that they can release, chose not to release , or repackage it any way they so choose... with or without the permission of the artist.

Edgar Winter

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Gaiaguys are free to think for themselves, and since their translations of our texts - even if these are of a preliminary nature - are sought for by many people, we see no reason for withdrawing our permission.

Billy Meier

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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

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Slamming the book shut produces a wind on the face, a weather that is copyrighted by the author, and this wind may not be deployed without permission, nor may the pages be turned without express written permission.

Ben Marcus

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love, if it be love indeed, asks no permission as to where it shall seek vantage ground or gain its victory - it is of all powers the most unfettered and the one which takes the widest course of largest liberty ...

Marie Corelli

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You owe the companies nothing. You especially don't owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.

Banksy

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Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave him permission.

William Carlos Williams

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What does an entrepreneur do? The first thing is they've given themselves permission to see a problem. Most people don't want to see problems ... Once you see a problem and you keep looking at it you'll find an answer.

Bill Drayton

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Perhaps we invented the gods so that we could put the blame on them. They gave us permission to eat flesh. They gave us permission to play with unclean things. It's not our fault, it's theirs. We're just their children.

J. M. Coetzee

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He kissed her. Without warning, without permission. Without even deciding to do it, but simply because he couldn't have done anything else. He needed that breath she was holding. It belonged to him, and he wanted it back.

Tessa Dare

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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

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Love isn't actually a feeling at all--it's an illness, a certain condition of body and soul.... Usually it takes possession of someone without his permission, all of a sudden, against his will--just like cholera or a fever.

Ivan Turgenev

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The digital asset that matters is trust. Awareness first, then interaction, and maybe a habit, but all three mean nothing if they don't lead to permission and trust. The privilege of connection. Everything else is slippery.

Seth Godin

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All you need to find and accomplish God's purpose in your life is God's permission and approval--not anyone else's. When you get in step with Him, there will be a glow on your face that will make people wonder what you're up to.

Zig Ziglar

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And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission

Robert Rauschenberg

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Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not regard such wealth as a permission or even an obligation to procure for ourselves the pleasures of the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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It used to be the boast of free men that, so long as they kept within the bounds of the known law, there was no need to ask anybody's permission or to obey anybody's orders. It is doubtful whether any of us can make this claim today.

Friedrich August von Hayek

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It [sin] cannot occur at any time nor in any form without his permission. While he does not actively originate it, he holds such absolute control over it that no single event in connection with it can take place without his permission

James Petigru Boyce

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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

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This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. Some people just do it, but others need help with the mindset, permission almost to listen to themselves. Understanding how things work is the key.

Sally Schneider

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The best time to start promoting your book is three years before it comes out. Three years to build a reputation, build a permission asset, build a blog, build a following, build credibility and build the connections you'll need later.

Seth Godin

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Life found itself alive and somehow knew its opposite was death. We are ever being born, or dying, and the thrill of choosing is ours. Only once, must we be born without our own consent. Only once, must we die without our own permission

Calvin Miller

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While everyone has a different experience of what is soulful, these experiences do share similar beginnings. We start by giving ourselves permission to be soulful, to take seriously this aspect of ourselves, our soul and our soul needs.

Jean Shinoda Bolen

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Sin must be within God's eternal decrees in some sense in which He is not the author of it . . . We must conclude then that within the decrees of God, there are decrees of permission of those things of which God Himself is not the author

J. Oliver Buswell

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In February I secured permission to enter Osama bin Laden's compound in the northern Pakistani city of Abbottabad, where he was killed and where he had lived for the last half-decade of his life; the first, and only, journalist to do so.

Peter Bergen

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No matter what the legislature may say, a man has the right to make his speech, print his handbill, compose his newspaper, and deliver his sermon without asking anyone's permission. The contrary suggestion is abhorrent to our traditions.

William O. Douglas

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My teaching, if that is the word you want to use, has no copyright. You are free to reproduce, distribute, interpret, misinterpret, distort, garble, do what you like, even claim authorship, without my consent or the permission of anybody.

U.G. Krishnamurti

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It also signals to me, when I pick up a pencil, that this is a rough draft. This is not going anywhere, and no one's going to see it. You have permission to make all the mistakes you want. It signals freedom to me, and it signals mistakes.

Lily King

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Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.

Chuck Palahniuk

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I believe when we are in the Lord's will and following Christ, we are His responsibility, and He will look after us. Until He has accomplished His purpose through us, nothing can touch us without His permission - we're 'bullet-proof', so to speak.

Franklin Graham

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To allow your organization the permission to fail is a very powerful thing. If we want to really be thought leaders and industry leaders, it doesn't come without taking risks. We're not afraid to take those risks that will get us to a better place.

Rick Welts

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The Creed of the Assassin Brotherhood teaches us that nothing is forbidden to us. Once, I thought that meant we were free to do as we would. To pursue our ideals, no matter the cost. I understand now. Not a grant of permission. The Creed is a warning.

Arno Hintjens

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Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It's yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

Banksy

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The most important thing for aspiring writers is for them to give themselves permission to be brave on the page, to write in the presence of fear, to go to those places that you think you canât write - really thatâs exactly what you need to write.

Cheryl Strayed

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It's injustice. It's wrong. [The pipeline companies] didn't get the permission. They didn't do the things they should have done in the first place. They tried to just bully their way through there and they got stopped. But they're not really stopping.

Neil Young

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When people can be vulnerable to one another then you're kind of giving people permission to really be yourself and not try to impress all the time and you get into more interesting work. You're being real and you're not afraid to mess up or seem weird.

Mark Webber

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If a man, in a lifetime of 50 years, can point to six songs that are immediately identifiable, he has achieved something. Irving Berlin can sing 60 that are immediately identifiable. Somebody once said you couldn't have a holiday without his permission.

Sammy Cahn

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If successful people have one common trait, it's an utter lack of cynicism. The world owes them nothing. They go out and find what they need without asking for permission; they're driven, talented, and work through negatives by focusing on the positives.

Mike Zimmer

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I used to feel like I was waiting for someone to discover me, to 'produce' me, like Lana Turner at the drugstore. Utlimately I realized that the person I was waiting for was myself. If we wait for the world's permission to shine, we will never receive it.

Marianne Williamson

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A cat's body can sustain a lot of damage without actually dying," Lucas said, his voice as deep as the rumble of the earth itself. "You just think about that before you so much as scratch yourself without permission." Ryan gulped and nodded, still mute.

Rachel Vincent

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You think you're the foreigner here, and I'm the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I'm a foreigner, too.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Eleanor Roosevelt doesn't ever do anything that is going to hurt her husband. She tries things out on him. She gets permission to do things. The amazing thing, I think, historically, is that he says, "Go do it. If you can make this happen, I'll follow you."

Blanche Wiesen Cook

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Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.

John Ruskin

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What he means by this is that instead of saying you'll "try", you need to "do". And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Nelson Mandela

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Ultimately, of what possible social significance is it if a person likes to masturbate over a shoe? It may even be non-consensual, but since we do not ask permission of our shoes to wear them, it hardly seems necessary to obtain dispensation to come on them.

Gayle Rubin

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A narrative thread gives people permission to think about other things whilst being carried by its flow. It does not mean that one has to compromise one's vision, or question formal concerns. It's just being more subtle and clever by having one accessible thread.

Sally Potter

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I do believe 50 is the new 40 and 60 is the new 50. Hell, maybe 60 can be the new 40, I don't know. I believe that when we give ourselves permission, we can live with an excitement and heat and passion that most women in previous generations were unable to attain.

Marianne Williamson

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Do we as adults have the right to make decisions about what we put in our own bodies and what we experience with our own consciousness without reference to the powers of the state, or must we seek permission from the state in order to explore our own consciousness?

Graham Hancock

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A partnership was established between Hitler's Nazis and the leadership of the Zionist movement... [the Zionists] gave permission to every racist in the world, led by Hitler and the Nazis, to treat Jews as they wish, so long as it guarantees immigration to Palestine.

Mahmoud Abbas

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When you're dying, you're liberated to do what you want to do. You give yourself permission. I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.

Laura Linney

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Here's the way the licensing works ... If you write a song, nobody can record your song before you do without your permission. But, once the song is recorded, they can get what's called a 'compulsory license', and they can record the tune, but they have to pay you royalties.

Frank Zappa

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The internet has opened the door for millions of businesses to do things differently, because there are other assets now, assets that can transcend location. Your permission to talk to customers, your reputation, your unique products-you can build a business around them online.

Seth Godin

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In 1993, I had my Super Show in Red Square, Moscow. No one before me had ever gotten permission to use that location and my show included fashion, fireworks, and dancing. I felt like it really communicated my heartfelt belief that all human beings are wonderful and unique individuals.

Kansai Yamamoto

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The single most important duty of the federal government is to protect and defend our national sovereignty. There are new and disturbing reports of American nuclear submarines passing though Canadian waters without obtaining the permission of, or even notifying, the Canadian government.

Stephen Harper

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Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy to ask for permission. By being allowed to make their own decisions the teachers are able to create strong partnerships with parents.

Gary Larson

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In 1994 while on weekend manoeuvres in France, I commandeered a Chieftain tank without permission of my immediate superiors. I then attempted to invade Paris. However, en route I stopped off at Disneyland, or Eurodisney as it was then called, and was subsequently apprehended on Space Mountain.

Nick Frost

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