Strict Rules Quotes

• When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Suicide, Boys, Narrative Voice

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• I love good food but I follow strict rules the days I perform.

  Jose Carreras

  Good Food, Strict

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• It is not the practice, now will I allow subversives to get away by insisting that I’ve got to prove everything against them in a court of law or [produce] evidence that will stand up to the strict rules of evidence of a court of law.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Law, Practice, Produce

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• I don't have storyboards, but I have some very strict rules, like not moving the camera.

  Lucile Hadzihalilovic

  Moving, Cameras, Strict

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think that there's etiquette for every means of communication. People are very judgmental and have strict rules. I don't think you should end a relationship with a Post-it note. I know some people who get offended when an e-mail is sent as a "thank you" note instead of a hand-written card.

  Debra Messing

  Communication, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The Universe is very, very big. It also loves a paradox. For example, it has some extremely strict rules. Rule number one: Nothing lasts forever. Not you or your family or your house or your planet or the sun. It is an absolute rule. Therefore when someone says that their love will never die, it means that their love is not real, for everything that is real dies. Rule number two: Everything lasts forever.

  Craig Ferguson

  Real, Mean, Love Is

  Craig Ferguson (2010). “Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel”, p.108, Chronicle Books

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• My parents had very strict rules for me. Rules like, I couldn't be home until a certain hour.

  Emo Philips

  Home, Parent, Hours

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• I'm an English songwriter/composer, working in Mandarin and trying to find something about Chinese culture that I really relate to and respect and feel some genuine emotions for - and it's quite hard, the pentatonic scale, and that, in a way, is why I think it works. Because I'm forced to limit myself to quite strict rules about what I did. Maybe that's how I avoided pastiche.

  Damon Albarn

  Thinking, Chinese, Trying

  "Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett". Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. January 26, 2009.

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• Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To depart upon any occasion from those rules, is consequence of some flattering speculation of extraordinary gain, is almost always extremely dangerous, and frequently fatal to the banking company which attempts it.

  Adam Smith

  Practice, Principles, Banking

  Adam Smith, Dugald Stewart (1843). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.104

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• I guess there are no real strict rules [in comedy], but I just learn to apply my philosophy about comedy which is, it's a serious business and the result needs to be funny, not the process.

  Christoph Waltz

  Philosophy, Real, Needs

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Strict rules of evidence would destroy psychoanalysis and literary criticism.

  Mason Cooley

  Criticism, Evidence, Strict

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• For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules-- it hasn't been taught to us by means of strict rules, either. We, in our discussions on the other hand, constantly compare language with a calculus preceding to exact rules.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Mean, Hands, Taught

  Garth Hallett, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1977). “A companion to Wittgenstein's "Philosophical investigations"”, Cornell Univ Pr

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• The insight at the root of artificial intelligence was that these "bits" (manipulated by computers) could just as well stand as symbols for concepts that the machine would combine by the strict rules of logic or the looser associations of psychology.

  Daniel Crevier

  Roots, Psychology, Machines

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• One of my strict, strict rules is a no auto-tune policy.

  Yukimi Nagano

  Auto Tune, Tunes, Strict

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules.

  Evan Davis

  Behaviour, Cheat, Accepted

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• Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest

  Michel de Montaigne

  Use, Grammar, Combat

  Michel de Montaigne, John Florio, Michael Innes (1928). “Montaigne's essays”

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• I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that I finally obey.

  Albert Camus

  Order, Strict

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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• The Yankees have strict rules. You can have a mustache but no other facial hair.

  Derek Jeter

  Yankees, Hair, Mustache

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• Halloween is one of my favorite days of the year. I have a strict rule: I don't work on Halloween and I won't travel on Halloween. Not for any reason.

  Simon Sinek

  Halloween, Favorite Day, Years

  "Look On The Bright Side: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands [and I] are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game. I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results. How can it be that writing down a few simple and elegant formulae, like short poems governed by strict rules such as those of the sonnet or the waka, can predict universal regularities of Nature?

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Nature, Hard Work, Writing

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• There are competing studies on how much crime drops or doesn't drop when there are strict rules on gun possession and sale. I don't think there's any question that New York City's very tough laws have reduced violence.

  Gail Collins

  New York, Gun, Thinking

  "Guns, Guns, Guns". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 3, 2013.

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