Julian Castro

But one of the most enjoyable things for me is that running for office gives you this license to enter the world of somebody else and to hear about the dreams that they have for themselves, for their family, for the country.

American Politician

Loretta Swit

Acting is not hiding to me; it's revealing. We give you license to feel. 'Hey, she's crying, so it's okay if I cry, too.' That's the most important thing in the world, because when you stop feeling, that's when you're dead.

American Actress

Gary Payton

My dad was known as a mean guy. He never smiled, and he had 'Mr. Mean' put on his license plate. But he was one of the neighborhood dads who looked out for everyone. He would take kids in and help them out.

American Athlete

Robert Cailliau

If you operate a TV or radio station, you have to have a license. It has nothing to do with fundamental freedom. It has to do with protection of the average citizen against abuses.

Belgian Scientist

Ted Sarandos

Typically, if you buy a studio with a library, their library is pretty well licensed out many years in advance, so you are not really gaining access to the programming in that way.

American Businessman

Sarah Silverman

Traditionally, I have no right to talk about race. I'm white; I didn't grow up in an all-black neighborhood. But the license I see for myself is I'm a member of the world.

American Comedian

Sebastian Stan

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

American Actor

P. J. O'Rourke

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

Steve Wozniak

I believe you should have a world where you've got to license something at a fair price.

Gavin Newsom

Do I support a driver's license for everybody? The answer is yes.

Think of 'license' as a key document that unlocks the right to do certain activities legally.

Required document

'License' implies government or authority approval, not just any informal permission.

Official approval

Licenses often have an expiration date after which they must be renewed.

Not indefinite

Using 'license' as a verb means to grant formal permission, often by an institution.

Formal permission

'Licensed' means allowed under control, not freely without any restrictions.

Controlled allowance

Here, 'license' refers to going beyond social or artistic norms, sometimes negatively.

Beyond rules

The noun can imply that someone might abuse a granted freedom.

Possible abuse

Artists often use 'license' to express personal interpretation or style.

Creative freedom

 They are residing in the person who is designing that form. When you walk into the DMV, the person who designed the form will have a huge influence on what you'll end up doing. Now, it's also very hard to intuit these results. Think about it for yourself. How many of you believe that if you went to renew your license tomorrow, and you went to the DMV,

Are we in control of our...

 he might walk a little jacket late first but if you see it you know a couple days ago buyer cats are really unique because they're the only pets we have that we just give free license to roam wherever they want if we let them outside people who said that they want to track their cats think they know generally where their cats go

Where Your Cat Goes May...

 Instead of showing you my driving license, which shows you I know how to drive, what my name is, my address, all these kind of things, I show you my psychic paper, and all it tells you is, am I over 18 or not. Right. Is that just a pipe dream? Of course not, otherwise I wouldn't be here talking.

David Birch: A new way...

 despite his later denials, used his control over land and forest licenses to enrich himself and his family. And HSBC, well, we know that HSBC bankrolled the region's largest logging companies that were responsible for some of that destruction

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 Now, throughout history, men practically had a license to cheat with little consequence, and supported by a host of biological and evolutionary theories that justified their need to roam, so the double standard is as old as adultery itself.

Rethinking infidelity...

 jaws deep inside its throat slides up to chew the meal and that is alien that is the xenomorph from alien can be licensed some footage of alien to put up alongside this ah no I'm being told no we cannot afford it we begun entangling

The Battle Between Eel...

 hundred thousand that they approved my application then there will be two gsm network in the country so we paid a hundred thousand now I am expected to get a GSM license three weeks after he called me he said

Attracting outside...

 while strictly limiting pollution. Many critics called these allowances licenses to pollute, or said the government was selling clean air. But since the cap was set to lower five years into the program,

Whatever happened to...

 of fruit you've got to train for about two years before you can get your license to actually care for flying foxes you don't have much life at all in that season

Baby Flying Foxes...

 I just got my license renewed this year yet they give you a kiss everything they're given our passion I feel good going on driving

License

An official document that gives you permission to own, do, or use something.

Often appears as...

To give someone official permission to do something.

Often appears as...

Freedom to behave as you wish, especially in a way which is not acceptable.

Often appears as...

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Required document

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Not indefinite

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