106 quotes found
“To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.”
“I've always wanted to find the rules that govern everything. It's amazing that such rules exist. It's even more amazing that we can find them.”
“Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.”
“The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.”
“Many progressives understand Scalia, and other conservative judges, in crassly political terms - as opponents of affirmative action, abortion, gun control, and campaign finance legislation. But wha...”
“Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and ...”
“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.”
“It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.”
“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' ha...”
“Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.”
“There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.”
“Works of art make rules rules do not make works of art.”
“Rules and models destroy genius and art.”
“Political correctness - the rigging of politics using different rules for different groups, and buttressed by the media - ensures that Democrats always have the upper hand.”
“I played by the rules of politics as I found them.”
“Trouble is, we call politics a game, but it isn't one. There is no referee, and the teams make up the rules as they go along. You can't cry foul or offside in politics. Almost anything goes.”
“Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don't use one piece of technology that I used when I started directing.”
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
“The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.”
“Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are ...”
