Rules Quotes
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I was a suburban kid who fancied myself somehow intellectual. I was into punk rock but I couldn't get into the subcultural signifiers of dyed hair, safety pins and torn denim. Being a punk seemed like a new set of rules that I wasn't interested in having to follow.
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Rules are for those who can't think of a better way.
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Passion of any sort is seldom governed by the rules of etiquette.
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We have to be careful about creating more rules.
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The confessing church of American Ragamuffins needs to join Magdalene and Peter in witnessing that Christianity is not primarily a moral code but a grace-laden mystery; it is not essentially a philosophy of love but a love affair; it is not keeping rules with clenched fists but receiving a gift with open hands.
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If you intend to make a living at drawing, by all means learn it the rules of perspective now, and do not have them bothering you and your work for the rest of your life.
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A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline; for this is the sole art that belongs to him who rules, and it is of such force that it not only upholds those who are born princes, but it often enables men to rise from a private station to that rank. And, on the contrary, it is seen that when princes have thought more of ease than of arms they have lost their states. And the first cause of your losing it is to neglect this art; and what enables you to acquire a state is to be master of the art.
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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
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I've always been attracted to the 'don't follow the rules' type of girl, the rocker girl. I've always been attracted to somebody who you can lose yourself in the moment with. You can hang out with her, and it's like you're the only two people in the room.
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We understand the rules because we made them up—not in the state we currently find ourselves as human beings, of course, but back when we were literally one with God, before God decided to temporarily become us.
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To me, the rules are made for guys to score more. And I guess that's where the entertainment comes in.
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I used to always pull my jersey out of my pants. Earl Tatum was like that, too. I was just more comfortable. There were no rules then. They didn't make you tuck your jerseys in and it was just comfortable for me.
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I think you don't break new ground in anything in life if you are willing to just follow the rules.
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Different rules apply to those who shake the worlds.
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Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
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Reactionary: One who wants the rules enforced so nobody can take his pile away from him the way he got it from others.
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People should dress the way they want. Any rules for age or shape are silly. If you walk out the door feeling good about yourself, that’s what counts.
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A strong spirit transcends rules.
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I do not make the rules. This annoys me, and so I comfort myself by breaking them.
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A really failing society has a lot of rules or laws.
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The rules may seem obvious but when you think about them they're not. For somebody who has my job they're not as obvious as one would think.
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As a designer, I love to explore user edge cases and figure out what appear to be rules.
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The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.
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We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally rules and makes right.
