That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most important in ethics.
We have very specific rules about how we go to market with children, and I think they are very responsible.
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.
We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case basis.
A traditional rabbi is the man to whom the community and its members turn to rule on what Jewish law requires of them, particularly in cases of doubt.
When preparing a presentation, it’s never a good idea to begin with a rule. If you do, you’re focusing on the appearance of good delivery and not the effect of it.
My relationships were never equitable. My husbands were always older than me, and they made the rules, they ran the show, and I followed them.
The real crime of Hosni Mubarak is that he ruled for 30 years and left behind an Egypt where the Muslim Brotherhood is the single strongest player.
I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen.
I think there's been a major shift in grass roots media because of the Internet and because the geeks and nerds rule the world. They are in control in so many ways.
The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing.
To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
Helena, like many women who ruled their own lives, adored being told what to do when there was no obligation to follow the advice given.
The first thing I ever learned in roller derby is to fall, and in the author world I believe that same rule applies.
Facebook is weird. They have all of these seemingly random rules that I'm sure make sense to them, but don't make sense to me or any people.
The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.
In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
Any use of chemical weapons, by anyone, under any circumstances, is a grave violation of the 1925 Protocol and other relevant rules of customary international law.
