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It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. -- Grace Hopper
Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission. -- Joseph Sobran
The things the writers have me doing on 'Suburgatory' are insane. I think they think it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. -- Cheryl Hines
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. -- Thomas Piketty
Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system. -- Lars Ulrich
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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. -- Doris Roberts
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. -- Francis Ford Coppola
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. -- Julianne Moore
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. -- Shane Carruth
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. -- Ricky Martin
During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair. -- Patrick Stewart
There's been so much corruption and so much cronyism in the taxi industry and so much regulatory capture, that if you ask for permission upfront for something that's already legal, you'll never get it. -- Travis Kalanick
Originally, when I wrote the song 'The Sensual World' I had used text from the end of 'Ulysses.' When I asked for permission to use the text, I was refused, which was disappointing. -- Kate Bush
Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely. -- Rita Dove
I don't have to ask anyone's permission to do anything. It's nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four people, which can be like pulling teeth. So the amount of control that I have over what I'm doing is better for me as a solo artist. -- Graham Nash
At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin. -- Rita Levi-Montalcini
I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years. -- Indra Nooyi
Congress hasn't declared war on the countries - the majority of them are our allies - but without asking for public permission, NSA is running network operations against them that affect millions of innocent people. And for what? So we can have secret access to a computer in a country we're not even fighting? -- Edward Snowden
The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it. -- Lance Henriksen
Can I cut off your head?" "Are you asking for my permission? -- Amanda Hocking
Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later. -- Seth Godin
But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission. -- Hermann Hesse
Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy. -- Amy Vanderbilt
Without asking her permission, someone is trying to intrude her life, draw her attention, in short, to bother her. -- Milan Kundera
Democracy means doing whatever you want without asking permission of anybody but your boss, your doctor, your lawyer, your landlord, your bank, your city, your state and federal authorities, and your wife and children. -- Sam Levenson

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