#legitimate

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

— Kesha

#important #legitimate #more #say #want

I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child. ↗

— Eartha Kitt

#child #i #illegitimate #still #well

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#bred #competition #desire #doubt #foremost

Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander's boss to get that changed. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#boss #certain #changed #commander #decisions

While we must ensure that these dangerous new drugs and precursors do not get in the hands of children or others who would use them improperly, we must also be aware that these same drugs have legitimate uses. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#aware #children #dangerous #ensure #get

I can't imagine anybody not wanting to make sure that noncitizens don't dilute legitimate U.S. citizens' vote. ↗

— Rick Scott

#citizens #i #imagine #legitimate #make

Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity. ↗

— Ron Silver

#celebrity #involvement #legitimate #public #public affairs

Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem... ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress. ↗

— Daniel Starch

#agency #competition #distribution #economic #fair

The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#balance #benign #between #caused #consumers

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us. ↗

— Josiah Warren

#almost #bankruptcy #brought #check #consumes