#permission

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

— Janet Jackson

#confusion #permission #self-acceptance #love

Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#action #active #allow #choice #choices

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 L. Bergen

#city #compound #enter #february #first

There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#difficult #first #front #getting #given

Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth. ↗

— Leslie Charteris

#did #done #eliminate #four #good

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

— Patricia Schroeder

#copy #copyright #full #make #permission

There are many people who could be Olympic champions. All-Americans who have never tried. I'd estimate more than 5 million people could have beaten me in the pole vault the years I won it... at least 5 million. Men that were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground trying to get over the bar. ↗

— Bob Richards

#ray-pelletier #men

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. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#band #basically #behind #done #i

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. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#cuba #get #go #man #married

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. ↗

— Barbara Feldon

#anything #best #better #bliss #given