#license

There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy. ↗

— Beck

#entire #gave #get #greedy #hit

Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#because #even #failed #full #giving

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech. ↗

— Harry A. Blackmun

#chills #creates #deny #discretion #existence

Just the actual physics of putting it all together, you know, the latter period is actually quite fragmented in terms of the licenses and all those things so it makes a compilation of the full twenty years really a technical minefield. ↗

— Geoff Downes

#actually #compilation #fragmented #full #just

For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments. ↗

— James Brady

#departments #get #go #home #license

The BBC were not playing the music that was happening on the street so we did an independent production because we knew we had an audience. Then we licensed the album to EMI. ↗

— Georgie Fame

#audience #bbc #because #did #had

My pilot's license. I'm proud of that. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#license #pilot #proud

Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license. ↗

— George Chapman

#chastity #cold #contrary #does #effects

I have 3 dogs myself - I actually have a kennel license in order to do so. I love them so much I couldn't imagine my life without them. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#dogs #i #i love #imagine #license

I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture it might seem, because I've learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#books #encourage #feel #gesture #heroic