Rules Quotes

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There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them. — Mason Cooley
Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking. — Mason Cooley
I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version. — Billy Corgan
Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them. — Bill Cosby
I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it. — Simon Cowell
Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that. — Simon Cowell
Normally, I am a vocal advocate for 'looking both ways' and 'knowing the size of one's own body.' But working, socialising and simply running errands… — Sloane Crosley
We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere… — Evan Davis
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. — Jefferson Davis
Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art. — Claude Debussy
Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have… — Claude Debussy
Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology. — Jacques Derrida
I don't think the law exists to arrive at the truth. If it did, we wouldn't have exclusionary rules, we wouldn't have presumptions of innocence,… — Alan Dershowitz
I was born fat and have always been, which was just fine and even healthy and cute until I turned ten or so. Puberty hit… — Beth Ditto
My life hasn't been conventional and it hasn't been linear. I've had to make it up as I've gone along, which has taught me a… — Beth Ditto
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be. — Bob Dylan
Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules. — Wayne Dyer
There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know… — Henry Van Dyke
As a whole, investors should welcome attempts to safeguard the integrity of markets. You need very clear rules applied to markets. — Mohamed El-Erian
'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be. — Roger Ebert

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