- Nov 07, 2020
Rules Quotes
Know the rules well enough to bend them.
One line credits Shakespeare with the lesson that you can only break the rules once you truly understand them, while another argues for living by ethics rather than rigid rules day to day. See Follow quotes for a related angle.
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- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I do solo material I definitely tend to overthink it. I make a lot of rules for myself that are a little bit arbitrary and... it's just painful.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't follow the rules!
- No Rules
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comedy has no rules, per se.
- Danger
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Supreme Court rules that rent control is an unconstitutional taking of property, it would put all sorts of zoning rules in danger.
- Extraordinarily
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no actual need to tighten voter ID rules: there have been extraordinarily few instances of people committing fraud at the polls.
- Reason
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rules are there for a reason.
- Nov 07, 2020
The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.
- Punishment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having rules means that sometimes people break them, and that means punishment.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Berlin has traditionally backed a rules-based eurozone in which every member state is responsible for its own finances, including bank bailouts, with political union limited to a fiscal overlord's possessing veto power over national budgets that violate the rules.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their ascendant, and the eleventh their twelfth house, and vary your Rules with Judgment.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020