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You can't break the rules until you know how to play the game. -- Rickie Lee Jones
I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity. -- Bill Veeck
There are lighter colors of granite and I like to break the rules. -- Douglas Wilson
When you break the rules and you win, you're a hero; when you lose, you're scurrilous. -- Peter Coyote
You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules. -- Sebastian Thrun
I love anyone who breaks the rules, and musicians always break the rules - in an aggressive way. -- Donatella Versace
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 want to remind people of a different kind of glamour, a different look, and breaking the rules of fashion. I wanna break the rules. -- Dita Von Teese
break the rules pay the price -- Brandon Mull
Life is short, break the rules. -- Mark Twain
By all means break the rules... -- Robert Bringhurst
Remember: Life is short, break the rules -- James Dean
As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules. -- Mary Oliver
I didn't break the rules, but I challenged the rules. -- Ella Baker
By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well. -- Robert Bringhurst
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity. -- Bill Veeck
Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules. -- Marvin Bell
If you're going to break the rules, you might as well break them correctly. -- Dan Gutman
If you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar. -- Kurt Vonnegut
If you have something to say, then say it. Express yourself and break the rules. -- Trent Reznor
To free yourself from the past you must break the rules of silence and compliance. -- Claudia Black
I feel like I have always played within the rules. I would never break the rules. -- Tom Brady
If you spend too much time worrying about how other people perceive you, you'll never break the rules. -- John Sculley
n the world, those who break the rules are scum, but those who abandon their friends are worse than scum. -- Masashi Kishimoto
People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place. -- Richard Rohr
The spirit of house music, electronic music, in the beginning was to break the rules, to do things in many different ways. -- Thomas Bangalter
I really am passionate about making low-budget movies. You can try new stuff and unusual stuff, and you can break the rules. -- Jason Blum
I don't care about the rules, if I don't break the rules at least 10x every song then I'm not doing my job. -- Jeff Beck
You shouldn't run around killing people or eating meat. That's not what we mean by tantra. There's no need to break the rules. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
You shouldn't run around killing people or eating meat. That's not what we mean by tantra. There's no need to break the rules. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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. -- Nicolas Cage
Composers can do things that weren't allowed in the 17th century. Until we had composers like Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff to break the rules. -- Aaron Zigman
The trading rules I live by are: 1. Cut losses. 2. Ride winners. 3. Keep bets small. 4. Follow the rules without question. 5. Know when to break the rules. -- Ed Seykota
Some people would break the rules to get things done and some wouldn't; it was simple as that. John didn't have much use for the latter. -- Max Barry
For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography. They break the rules and admit the thing that is imagined, but is not licensed to be imagined. -- Hilary Mantel
Nothing could be easier than disturbing a status quo instituted by others; the real work of the sinister current is to break the rules we rigidly establish for ourselves. -- Zeena Schreck
What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself. -- Malcolm Mclaren
Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention. -- Ville Valo
For me, acting is like a holiday. When you're directing, you have a strong sense of responsibility for others. It's exciting but exhausting, especially when you're like me: always wanting to break the rules. -- Simon McBurney
Practitioners of tantra don't decide to break the rules. They are not particularly hung up on having sex or eating meat or drinking alcohol. They don't strive to do these things, nor do they strive to avoid them. -- Frederick Lenz
I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules. -- Vera Wang
The impossible - we are told - cannot be achieved. To overcome the 'impossible,' we need to use our wits and be fearless. We need to break the rules and to circumvent - some would one say to cheat. -- Philippe Petit
They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game -- R. D. Laing
Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones. -- Beau Willimon
Management gurus in general are, I think, best avoided. All too often they reduce your working life to a list of rules to be followed. Targets are aimed at. Goals kicked at. You then break the rules or forget them and, hey presto, you start beating yourself up. -- Tom Hodgkinson
When 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' premiered on the WB Network in 1996, American culture was in trouble. Americans were bowling alone, pursuing individual interests to the detriment of the communal good. Business leaders were celebrating creativity and neglecting discipline. Nike's 'Just do it' ads were teaching young people to break the rules. -- Virginia Postrel
Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women. -- Nora Ephron
I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style. -- Frank Black
I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style. -- Frank Black
Lying and corruption are in the Iranian society in all sense of the world, and if you do research about married women, you see that a lot of them tell you they get a lot of enjoyment from breaking the rules of corruption, because just for the fact that they break the rules, it makes them oppose the system. -- Bahman Ghobadi
I spent the majority of time at school trying to break the rules. I would climb to the top of buildings; I even burned a building down once - not intentionally, just because I was interested in fire. I remember going through the rule book, ticking off the ones I had broken and looking for the ones I hadn't. -- Simon McBurney
I like breaking the rules. -- Lexa Doig
You are remembered for the rules you break. -- Douglas MacArthur
Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them. -- Anthony de Mello
Shakespeare showed me that once I understand the rules, I can break them. -- Zoe Wanamaker
Being vital means knowing the rules and being brave enough to break them. -- Logan Marshall-Green
Slavery didn't break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules. -- Andrew Young
I'm not very good at being a wife because I break all the rules. -- Katherine Heigl
A key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules. -- Vivek Wadhwa
The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break. -- John Madden
I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers. -- Gianni Versace
I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules. -- John Irving
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. -- Rick Wakeman
Learn the rules before you break them. -- Steven Taylor Goldsberry
Learn all the rules... then break them. -- Lea DeLaria
The whims of youth break all the rules. -- Homer
I think I've always been somebody to break rules. -- Manish Dayal
When you break rules, break 'em good and hard -- Terry Pratchett
You've got to know the rules to break them. -- Alexander McQueen
Break the rules and make up your own rules. -- Elle Meyer
What you have to do is break all the rules. -- Andrew Wyeth
Everybody knows the rules, even though some break those rules. -- George A. Romero
The young break rules for fun. The old for profit. -- Mason Cooley
Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively. -- Dalai Lama
Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. -- Neil Gaiman
I like rules. Without them, we don't know what to break. -- Helmut Krone
There are no rules, but you break them at your peril. -- Peter Guber
If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones. -- George Orwell
Break the rules, stand apart, ignore your head, and follow your heart, -- Paula Abdul
What are you gonna do if I break one of your *&^%$ing rules? -- Simone Elkeles
Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules. -- Andrew Young
Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form. -- Robert McKee
Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em. -- Terry Pratchett
We were sort of coming from an angle where we wanted to break rules. -- Stephen Mallinder
Learn not only the rules of art, but 'when' and 'how' to break them. -- Robert Warren
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. -- Pablo Picasso
I know the rules of the game, you hit it once, then break away clean. -- Ray Parker, Jr.
To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them. -- Nadia Boulanger
If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them. -- Ayumi Hamasaki
You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them. -- Keira Knightley
I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break. -- Jeanette Winterson
And I seek people who break rules with happiness "? and not bringing pain to themselves. -- John Waters
Follow the rules whenever possible. That makes it a lot more surprising when you break them. -- Mira Grant
Learn and obey the rules very well so you will know how to break them properly. -- Dalai Lama
I still feel as if I weren't a good enough mother. I didn't break any rules. -- Mary Tyler Moore
Learn the rules and then break them in such a way as to exercise good taste. -- George Shearing
Rules are a great way to get ideas. All you have to do is break them. -- Jack Foster
I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them? -- Leo Durocher
Why did I want to break all the rules? Because the rules didn't make sense, that's why -- Madonna Ciccone
I am not much about rules, I like to break 'em and don't like to make 'em. -- Carson Kressley
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them. -- Robert Graves
That was the rule. Break one of my rules once, and I'm bound to break many more. -- Haruki Murakami
See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules. -- Herbie Hancock
It is better to give children a rule to break than to give them no rules at all. -- Tipper Gore
I approach everything as an absolute outsider. It is the only way I can break so many rules. -- Klaus Nomi
I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break -- Morton Feldman
I believe love isn't simple, and it's one of the things that makes people break all the rules. -- Martine McCutcheon
Tough break today. Looks like I gotta go back and rememorize a couple hundred pages of the usga rules book! -- Jeff Overton
Break the rules. Be a fighter. Any dream is possible if you are brave enough to do it YOUR way. -- AJ Lee
I think you don't break new ground in anything in life if you are willing to just follow the rules. -- Brad Furman
You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so. -- Hans Hofmann
Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss SLOWLY. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile. -- Mark Twain
One wonders what would happen in a society where there were no rules to break. Doubtlessly everyone would quickly die of boredom. -- Susan Howatch
In diplomacy, like in great many other things, the rules of engagement survive only until one remarkable person decides to break them. -- Ilona Andrews
Emily Dickinson liked to shock people. She liked to break rules. There was a kind of rebellious freedom in her inner world. -- Christopher Benfey
I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don't like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks. -- Quentin Tarantino
One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom. -- Susan Howatch
One of the first rules in fishing is that there are few rules in fishing that resourceful trout do not manage to break. -- John D. Voelker
Life is good, life is great. Always love and never hate. Break the rules, stand apart. Ignore your head and follow your heart. -- Ashley Purdy
We're not even supposed to have a break in August if we have not passed the appropriations bills. It's in the House rules. -- Daniel Webster

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