Rules Quotes
3000 quotes by 2235 authors
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There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
— Mason Cooley
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Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.
— Mason Cooley
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I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.
— Billy Corgan
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Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
— Bill Cosby
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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
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Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.
— Simon Cowell
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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
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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
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Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
— Jefferson Davis
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Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
— Claude Debussy
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
— Bob Dylan
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Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
— Wayne Dyer
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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
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As a whole, investors should welcome attempts to safeguard the integrity of markets. You need very clear rules applied to markets.
— Mohamed El-Erian
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'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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