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Rules Quotes

After the election of George McGovern in 1972 as a peace candidate – I should say his election to the nomination of the Democratic Party – the party changed the rules to steeply tilt that playing field, creating superdelegates and Super Tuesdays that make it very hard for a grassroots campaign to prevail.

– Jill Stein

Ultimately, the best driver will always do something special, whatever the rules and whatever the regulations. Same thing with the teams.

– Jacques Villeneuve

If you’re going to say to all the people that you’re working with, ‘We want you to treat the customers honestly; don’t lie and don’t cheat,’ it is somewhat hypocritical if you’re not following the same rules.

– James Sinegal

Freedom without rules doesn’t work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette.

– Judith Martin

I had three rules for my players: No profanity. Don’t criticize a teammate. Never be late.

– John Wooden

Everybody wants all of our businesses to have no restrictions in any country, but even in Canada, in order to distribute home entertainment, you need to follow the Canadian rules, and it’s just about as hard to do business there as it is in China.

– Jon Feltheimer

The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.

– Jamie Dimon

The school-boy doesn’t force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.

– Hermann Ebbinghaus

There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.

– John Kenneth Galbraith

When it comes to international trade, the question is, who is going to write the rules, the United States or China? And my vote is the United States.

– John Barrasso

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.

– Jeanette Winterson

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.

– Joan Jett

I simply refuse to play by the rules.

– John McAfee

I got a lot of publicity, but it steamrolled. Event organizers weren’t used to that kind of behavior, so later, they tightened the rules.

– John McEnroe

Literature invents its own rules.

– Joseph Brodsky

In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.

– Hayden Fry

Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.

– John Podhoretz

All you have to be is kind. That’s all you need. Once you’ve got that, it virtually rules out everything else.

– Joanna Lumley

It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

– John Updike

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

– Isabel Allende

Scientists who play by someone else’s rules don’t have much chance of making discoveries.

– Jack Horner

For decades, my identity was political, but I’ve come to understand that there’s no political solution when you’re dealing with someone else’s rules.

– John Trudell

I’ve always tended to play people who relish playing against the rules.

– Jeremy Irons

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

– John Madden

Every different social group that I encountered had its different set of rules, so you learn very quickly how to pick up the nuances and change yourself accordingly. When you are not from anywhere, you have to try to find what’s universal. You are always trying to fit in.

– Julianne Moore

There are certain rules one must abide by in order to succesfully survive a horror movie.

– Jamie Kennedy

You write a novel by inventing a world and inventing the rules that govern that world. Then you break the rules when you want to.

– Joshua Cohen

I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don’t know how to be creative.

– Julian Casablancas

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.

– James Frey

One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when you don’t know them.

– Joan Collins

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