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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.
Instead of asking for permission, we're seeing more artists and creatives taking control over the stories we tell.
To be given permission to be confused -- and remain confused -- for as long as it takes would have been a huge gift.
If music is to continue to support the livelihoods of artists, it cannot be taken without the permission of artists.
Stop looking for permission to pursue your dreams! They are YOUR dreams and you don't need a co-signer to chase them!
Write yourself a permission slip to be surprised by someone's potential. Who knows? One day that person could be you.
...that's how memory works ... Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission.
Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?
The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage.
You simply collapsed, sir. In layman's terms, your body revoked its permission for you to continue heaping abuse upon it.
I performed stand-up because I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. My set was never joke-centric. It was a performance.
A certain kind of permission is given to live differently, to conceptualize and to act according to a new conceptualization.
I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
The Commerce Clause has already been inflated so much that we basically can't do anything without the government's permission.
But the main thing is to give people permission to feel it and to put grief at the heart of what Extinction Rebellion's about.
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.
I often ask people what I did wrong in the last meeting, because then others feel they have permission to own their mistakes, too.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission.
I take the view that we all have permission to be a little baffled by quantum information science and algorithmic information theory.
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.
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.
The things the writers have me doing on 'Suburgatory' are insane. I think they think it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
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.
Troops fighting for their lives should not have to ask a lawyer sitting in air conditioning 500 miles away for permission to drop a bomb.
The novelist has permission to do whatever she chooses to supercharge whatever's interesting in her story. This is also known as freedom.
If just one person touches you without your permission, stepping back and saying clearly, "Please don't touch me" should get them to stop.
They have permission to play all the indoor games they want, but my daughters are not going to be competing in public sporting activities.
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.'
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.
Everybody has will - you just have to gather it. And I guess you choose where your inspiration comes from and give yourself that permission.
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.
I want the least number of decision makers. We want to empower people to get more things done and also give permission to question orthodoxy.
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.
The biggest lesson I've learned throughout the first season of 'Workin' Moms' is that you have to give yourself permission to forgive yourself.
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.
We didn't worry about getting a venue or asking permission. We started out guerrilla. We were illegal, going down to the beach to burn this thing.
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?
Bitcoin is open-source, global, and requires no permission from anybody, so thousands of entrepreneurs are gravitating in and building their vision.
What could be more important to the pursuit of happiness than the right to choose your spouse without asking a Washington politician for permission?
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.
We all need permission to do science, but for reasons that are deeply ingrained in history, this permission is more often given to men than to women.
Where workers are not free to change employers or leave the country without the permission of their employer, workers are, de facto, in forced labour.
There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.
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.
I rarely asks people for advice or permission when I'm planning on doing something I feel strongly about. That only opens the plan up to be crapped on.
The Internet should be an open platform where you are free to go where you want and say and do what you want without having to ask anyone's permission.