If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, "I want to come to your house and have you talk to me and tell me... the story of your life." I mean people are going to say, "You're crazy." Plus they're going to keep mighty guarded. But the camera is a kind of license. A lot of people, they want to be paid that much attention and that's a reasonable kind of attention to be paid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At its best New Wave/punk represents a fundamental and age-old Utopian dream: that if you give people the license to be as outrage...ous as they want in absolutely any fashion they can dream up, they'll be creative about it, and do something good besides.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think that if most guys in America could somehow get their fave-rave poster girl in bed and have total license to do whatever th...ey wanted with this legendary body for one afternoon, at least 75 percent of the guys in the country would elect to beat her up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It would much conduce to the public benefit, if, instead of discouraging free-thinking, there was erected in the midst of this fre...e country a dianoetic academy, or seminary for free-thinkers, provided with retired chambers, and galleries, and shady walks and groves, where, after seven years spent in silence and meditation, a man might commence a genuine free-thinker, and from that time forward, have license to think what he pleased, and a badge to distinguish him from counterfeits.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than l...eave that task to people with a vested interest in stressing only some of the implications and falsifying others. The idea that academics should remain "above the fray" only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty,... than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
License my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.... O my America! my new-found-land, My kingdom, safeliest when with one man manned, My mine of precious stones, my empery, How blest am I in this discovering thee! To enter in these bonds is to be free; Then where my hand is set, my seal shall be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Animals struggle with each other for food or for leadership, but they do not, like human beings, struggle with each other for that... that stands for food or leadership: such things as our paper symbols of wealth (money, bonds, titles), badges of rank to wear on our clothes, or low-number license plates, supposed by some people to stand for social precedence. For animals the relationship in which one thing stands for something else does not appear to exist except in very rudimentary form.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drin...k. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »