Legitimate Quotes

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity.

If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do.

If you want to be a legitimate artist, it's more important what you say no to.

I don't like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created something to make a good living.

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

I totally accept that it's a legitimate criticism that when you are involved in the day-to-day scrum of government... that what can get lost is the narrative, the hymn sheet... the song that inspires and lifts people's sights.

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

If there's criticism of my work that's legitimate. I'm ready to hear of it.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

Most of Albania considers this Government to be legitimate.

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.

You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime, because deep down it's not a legitimate regime, it doesn't represent the will of the people, it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

It's kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even though in the past I was hacking for the curiosity, and the thrill, to get a bite of the forbidden fruit of knowledge, I'm now working in the security field as a public speaker.

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

Of course, I think it is legitimate for the Commander-in-Chief to be concerned for the safety of his soldiers.