I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it’s usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call it whatever they please. I identify with that system, or lack of system, much more than I do the landscape of contemporary publishing.
In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.
We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.
There are no rules in fights with girls. Just hurting.
Habits are safer than rules; you don’t have to watch them. And you don’t have to keep them either. They keep you.
I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women’s rules.
It’s like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules.
I would describe my personal style as putting Twiggy and Yoko Ono together. It is hobo with no rules.
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
I always say that it’s about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.
When men organize themselves into groups, and they make rules based on common or self-interest, it’s always tangled and political.
Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn’t part of what I wanted to do. It wasn’t my goal.
I was very pushed to look a certain way and act a certain way, and it wasn’t me, but I played by their rules to get my foot in the door.
The concept of doing something with child benefit, of changing the rules around child benefit, is something that has been being discussed for some time.
I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.
Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.
As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play – and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger.
If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
Judges are like umpires. Umpires don’t make the rules. They apply them. The role of an umpire and a judge is critical. They make sure everybody plays by the rules. But it is a limited role. Nobody ever went to a ballgame to see the umpire.
I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.
We slow the progress of science today for all sorts of ethical reasons. Biomedicine could advance much faster if we abolished our rules on human experimentation in clinical trials, as Nazi researchers did.
You are remembered for the rules you break.
No rules. Don’t be afraid to do whatever you want. Cooking doesn’t have to have rules. I don’t like it that way.
While we believe there are fruitful opportunities to update and improve old rules, we do not want to set up a review process that could create a litigation morass.
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
When I was a young kid, girls were taught that their role in life was to get married and have children. It was the 1950s. Those were the rules.
Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms of someone who has a troubled relationship with their father. And yet, I never had a problem with my father.
We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.
When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don’t believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed.
I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.
The animated bug has bitten pop culture. It makes me feel happy and free. When you don’t act seriously, you can make up your own rules.
Where there is no will, no rules or laws can help.
If any sort of error is inexcusable, it’s an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.
Our ethos for ‘Now You See Me 2’ was that everything in the movie at least had the potential to be done in real life, and I’d say over 90% of it was actually done in-camera with no CGI. Of course, movies like this are always going to be bound by the rules of Hollywood, being there’s going to be enhancements of CGI.
I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.
I knew it would happen. I knew I’d be No. 1. I’m a new artist; I don’t know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn’t happen.
Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I’m not convinced we changed it for the best.
We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules – without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction.
You know, I like to think that I will subscribe very much to the core Republican principles of small government. Making a small number of rules and getting out of the way. Keeping taxes low. Creating an environment for small businesses to grow and thrive.
I’ve stated my position, and that is we do not need a contraption to play the game of golf. I would hope that we’d play under one set of rules, and those rules would include a ban on the long putter hooked to the body in some way, shape or form.
The rules of survival never change, whether you’re in a desert or in an arena.
A scam is a scam. A fraud is a fraud. Different rules don’t apply in the City than they do for you and me.
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
Women have the feeling that since they didn’t make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them.
Don’t make your journey through life harder by placing rules on yourself like, ‘I can’t get married till I get promoted to your dream job.’
The way I understand the rules on trading on inside information, it’s very vague.
Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.
Natural disasters are terrifying – that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.
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 only to listen. Pleasure is the law.
No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.
I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.
My characters aren’t losers. They’re rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else’s rules.
If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.
Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.
I figure it’s okay to make certain rules, whether or not people despise you for it at the time.
My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn’t exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.
The rules of the global economy are rigged against those who have to work to earn a living and in favour of multinational corporations and the ultra-rich.
The Democrats filibustered something in the Senate when I was eight years old. I don’t remember what it was on and I didn’t honestly care when I was eight years old. I cared about the history and the Senate rules.
The ‘Road Rules’ thing was just something that happened. It was never like when I was little I said, ‘I want to be on a reality show when I grow up.’ They didn’t even have them then, you know?
That white uniform was her ‘pass’ to get into white places with us – the grocery store, the state fair, the movies. Even though this was the 70s and the segregation laws had changed, the ‘rules’ had not.
I’ve always thought that being in the UFC is what the name suggests: Ultimate Fighting Championship. As time went on, people started learning to use the rules that suit them.
