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Why do we need to universally condemn entire sectors of our society, as opposed to talking about what's happening within them that is in violation of values and creating regulations and rules that make sure that they are affirming what's in the best interest of our country?

— Cory Booker, Sen. Cory Booker Promises To Bring America Together. But How?

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We can't play with fire here.

— Deborah Czeresko, Blown Away, Season 1: Clash of the Robots

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We waffle between following the rules and bending them, constantly worrying that if we bend too far, this whole rickety structure might topple and break. Because we know that we're always one dumb move away from ruin.

— Becca Gelb (Gideon Adlon), The Society, Season 1: Allie's Rules

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What is it with boys? It's like you all suddenly woke up with boundaries.

— Lily Iglehart (Jean Louise O'Sullivan), Sex Education, Season 1: Episode 6

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Rules existed for a reason: if you followed them, you would succeed; if you didn't, you might burn the world to the ground.

— Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

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If he breaks the rules, he pays the price.

— Baldwin Montclair (Trystan Gravelle), A Discovery of Witches, Season 1: Episode 5

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Win a no-win situation by rewriting the rules.

— Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht), Suits, Season 1: Play the Man

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Bobby: I'd like a plain omelette, no potatoes, tomatoes instead, a cup of coffee and wheat toast.

Waitress: [points at his menu] No substitutions.

Bobby: What do you mean? You don't have any tomatoes?

Waitress: Only what's on the menu. You can have a number two, a plain omelette, it comes with cottage fries and rolls.

Bobby: Yeah, I know what it comes with, but it's not what I want.

Waitress: Well, I'll come back when you make up your mind.

Bobby: Wait a minute, I have made up my mind. I'd like a plain omelette, no potatoes on the plate, a cup of coffee and a side order of wheat toast.

Waitress: I'm sorry, we don't have any side orders of toast. I'll give you an English muffin or a coffee roll.

Bobby: What do you mean you don't make side orders of toast? You make sandwiches, don't you?

Waitress: Would you like to talk to the manager?

Palm Apodaca: Hey, Mac...

Bobby: Shut up. [to the waitress] You've got bread and a toaster of some kind?

Waitress: I don't make the rules.

Bobby: OK, I'll make it as easy for you as I can. I'd like an omelette, plain, and a chicken salad sandwich on wheat toast, no mayonnaise, no butter, no lettuce, and a cup of coffee.

Waitress: A number two, a chicken salad sand. Hold the butter, the lettuce, and the mayonnaise, and a cup of coffee. Anything else?

Bobby: Yeah, now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a cheque for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.

Waitress: You want me to hold the chicken, huh?

Bobby: I want you to hold it between your knees.

[Palm Apodaca sniggers]

Waitress: [points at a sign behind her] You see that sign, sir? Yes, you'll all have to leave! I'm not taking any more of your smartness and sarcasm!

Bobby: You see this sign?

[he sweeps all the glasses off the table onto the floor]

— Robert Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson), Five Easy Pieces

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It's like I was playing some kind of game, but the rules don't make any sense to me. They're being made up by all the wrong people. I mean no one makes them up. They seem to make themselves up.

— Ben Braddock (Dustin Hoffman), The Graduate

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Kat Stratford: We're going now.

Walter Stratford: Alright, wait a minute. No drinking, no drugs, no kissing, no tattoos, no piercings, no ritual animal slaughters of any kind. Oh, God, I'm giving them ideas.

— Katarina "Kat" Stratford (Julia Stiles), 10 Things I Hate About You

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Sebastian: You could just write your own rules. You know, write something that's as interesting as you are.

Mia: What are you gonna do?

Sebastian: Have my own club.

— Mia Dolan (Emma Stone), La La Land

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I built this place. Down here I make the rules. Down here I make the threats.

— The Trainman (Bruce Spence), The Matrix Revolutions

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Morpheus: We've survived by hiding from them, by running from them. But they are the gatekeepers. They are guarding all the doors, they are holding all the keys. Which means that sooner or later, someone is going to have to fight them.

Neo: Someone?

Morpheus: I've seen an agent punch through a concrete wall; men have emptied entire clips at them and hit nothing but air; yet, their strength, and their speed, are still based in a world that is built on rules. Because of that, they will never be as strong, or as fast, as you can be.

— Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), The Matrix

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You have a problem with authority, Mr. Anderson. You believe you are special, that somehow the rules do not apply to you. Obviously, you are mistaken.

— Rhineheart (David Aston), The Matrix

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These aren't my rules. Come to think of it, I don't have any rules.

— Betelgeuse (Michael Keaton), Beetlejuice

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I suppose a princess just does what she’s told!

— Mérida (voice) (Kelly MacDonald), Brave

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My ho-tation. I make the rules. Get in my line-up.

— Issa Dee (Issa Rae), Insecure, Season 2: Hella Blows

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We are all subject to rules, Miss Crain, and if we fail to live by them, the consequences are severe.

— Inspector Kido (Joel de la Fuente), The Man in the High Castle, Season 1: The New Normal

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Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors.

— Sheldon Cooper, The Big Bang Theory, Season 2: The Lizard-Spock Expansion

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The code of the schoolyard, Marge! The rules that teach a boy how to be a man! Let's see: Don't tattle, always make fun of those different from you, never say anything unless you're sure everyone feels exactly the same way you do, and what else...?

— Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta), The Simpsons, Season 1: Bart the General

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Third rule of shadowhunting; emotions cloud judgement.

— Jace Wayland (Dominic Sherwood), Shadowhunters, Season 1: Bad Blood

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First rule of shadowhunting... when something explodes, just keep walking. Never think twice. Never look away.

— Jace Wayland (Dominic Sherwood), Shadowhunters, Season 1: Bad Blood

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Please, let me explain the rules of the boat. Rule number one, it’s my boat. Rule number two, it is my boat. And if there remains any confusion about rules one and two, I offer rule number three, it’s my goddamn boat.

— Victor Strand (Colman Domingo), Fear the Walking Dead, Season 2: Monster

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The old rules of conduct no longer apply.

— Victor Strand (Colman Domingo), Fear the Walking Dead, Season 2: Wrath

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The game has changed. We return to the old rules.

— Victor Strand (Colman Domingo), Fear the Walking Dead, Season 1: Cobalt

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Without the rules, we're playing God. We need the rules.

— Dr. Marcus Andrews (Hill Harper), The Good Doctor, Season 1: Oliver

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When there are no rules, women take charge.

— Tatiana Petrovna (Gaite Jansen), Peaky Blinders, Series 3: Episode 4

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Rule one, you don’t punch above your weight.

— Polly Gray (Helen McCrory), Peaky Blinders, Series 1: Episode 2

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We all make rules for ourselves. It's these rules that help define who we are. So when we break those rules we risk losing ourselves and becoming something unknown.

— Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall), Dexter, Season 7: Surprise, Motherfucker!

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You know the rules. I don’t talk how my meat gets made, you don’t talk about your magic man in the sky.

— Odin Quincannon (Jackie Earle Haley), Preacher, Season 1: Monster Swamp

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In the darkness, there are no rules. So, tonight Gotham, do what you want. Kill who you want. And when morning comes, you too shall be reborn.

— Jerome Valeska (Cameron Monaghan), Gotham, Season 3: Mad City: Smile Like You Mean It

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Whoa, whoa. Hold up. What the hell happened to you? I get it, the first rule of Fight Club, right?

— Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk), Better Call Saul, Season 2: Rebecca

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Lana, it's cashmere, there are rules.

— Sterling Archer (voice) (H. Jon Benjamin), Archer, Season 6: Vision Quest

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I'll enforce the unwritten rules while you enforce the written ones.

— Luke Cage (Mike Colter), Marvel's Luke Cage, Season 2: They Reminisce Over You

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As long as you follow the rules, you'll be fine. Rule number one: You will obey every rule I say after rule number one. Rule number two: None but the righteous shall see God. And since we ain't got no righteous people in here, God ain't gonna have to worry about your shitty prayers. So that means I'm His mean, shitty substitute.

— Albert Rackham (Chance Kelly), Marvel's Luke Cage, Season 1: Step in the Arena

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Press secretaries can't cry! It's, like, a rule!

— Abby Whelan (Darby Stanchfield), Scandal, Season 4: Baby Made a Mess

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Your problem is you spent your whole life thinking there are rules. There aren't.

— Lorne Malvo (Billy Bob Thornton), Fargo, Season 1: The Crocodile's Dilemma

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The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them.

— Aleister Crowley, Magical and Philosophical Commentaries on The Book of the Law

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I don't guess anybody would think much of what Joe did nowadays, including myself. But he was supposed to be a leader, so he had to live by the rules. It was the hardest thing I ever had to do, and it was to the greatest athlete I ever coached.

— Bear Bryant, Football's Supercoach

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I'm a conservative kind of guy, so I do have these rules—I won't talk about this, this, and this. And I don't like talking about topical things. I like talking about little things, like lint.

— Steven Wright, Steven Wright

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You're on a jet, you're five miles in the air, you're going 500 miles an hour, and you ask someone to bring you another Coke. That is as weird to me as any joke I said last night. I think that's why people identify with me, because there are a billion pieces of information, and there's so much chaos. So much of civilization is just trying to organize this information. Everyone's trying to have rules so that it's not complete madness-chaos. But as organized as it can be, it's only organized to an extent. Shit is spilling over the edges. I'm just pointing out the stuff they're trying to make rules about, and the stuff that's spilling over. As I'm saying this to you, it sounds so deep, but all I'm noticing is that things are funny. You can just move something and look at it from a slightly different angle, and it's funny.

— Steven Wright, Steven Wright

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I think it’s important for people to have their own sense of style—a personal style. I think there are certain rules, especially when you’re English, because you’re brought up on ‘this is how a gentleman should dress.’ If you’re lucky enough to be able to afford it, you can go to Savile Row and have a suit made, or you can go and see how people dress. We’re brought up around that. I think we’re lucky to have that. In that sense of fashion, and the way men dress, there are rules. But I do also think that rules are made to be broken and I think I’ve done that over the years, in good ways and in bad ways. But I’m having fun and I wear what I like to wear: I don’t get told what to wear.

— David Beckham, via www.mrporter.com

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Gentlemen, welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is: You do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: You DO NOT TALK ABOUT FIGHT CLUB! Third rule of Fight Club: Someone yells stop, goes limp, taps out, the fight is over. Fourth rule: only two guys to a fight. Fifth rule: one fight at a time, fellas. Sixth rule: no shirts, no shoes. Seventh rule: Fights will go on as long as they have to. And the eighth and final rule: If this is your first night at Fight Club, you have to fight.

— Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), Fight Club

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The only rules that really matter are these: what a man can do and what a man can't do.

— Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl

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Rule number one: Don't bother sucking up. I already hate you.

— Dr. Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson), Grey's Anatomy, Season 1: A Hard Day's Night

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The rules here are pretty simple. There are only two. Rule number one: you listen. Number two: you pass it on. Hopefully, neither one will be easy. It's not supposed to be easy, or I would have emailed you an MP3. When you're done listening to all 13 sides, because there are 13 sides to every story, rewind the tapes, put them back in the box, and pass them on to the next person.

— Hannah Baker (Katherine Langford), 13 Reasons Why, Season 1: Tape 1, Side A

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Play by the rules, but be ferocious.

— Phil Knight, via www.inc.com

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Interviewer: Describe yourself in only 1 word
Me: Rule breaker

— CoatsBoi, Interviewer: Describe yourself in only 1 word

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Rules are made for people who aren’t willing to make up their own.

— Chuck Yeager, via todayinsci.com

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Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

— Confucius, The Analects

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I cannot understand why the world is arranged as it is.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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We all have rules; they differ, but we all play by them.

— Philip K Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

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We think we understand the rules when we become adults, but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

— David Lynch, Interview with Kristine McKenna

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You can’t reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

— Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

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Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

— Pablo Picasso, The Los Angeles Method E- Book Introduction

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First rule for me, if it’s not something I would want to see in my feed, why would somebody else want to see it in theirs? If you don’t want to look at someone else’s Cheerios or sleeping cat, why would they want to look at yours?

— Garin Kilpatrick, How to Get More Instagram Followers and Likes

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How dreadful... to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.

— Caroline Stevermer, Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot

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Lose the antiquated set of ‘rules’ we’ve all had drilled into our pretty little skulls. About who can ask who out, and ‘don’t act too interested or he might get turned off’. These rules were made up by some delirious 19th century chick whose corset was obviously too tight.

— Stephanie Russel, 6 Courageous Steps For Single Ladies To Stop Playing Games And Get The Guy They Want

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I don't know why we human beings are so obsessed with making rules about everything.

— Paulo Coelho, Like The Flowing River

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If your arrangement appears ongoing, it's best to establish some ground rules. Ask some or all of these questions of yourself and your partner: Is this actually casual for both of us? What happens if our feelings change? How often and when do you want this to happen? Do you expect a date beforehand? Are you cool that I'm also seeing other people? Is this a secret from friends and coworkers? Have you been tested? Do you like it when I put it there? How does that feel? Do you mind getting on top this time? Really? Right now? In the kitchen?

— Ben Kassoy, 6 Unspoken Rules of Casual Sex

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Over the years, I’ve found one rule. It is the only one I give on those occasions when I talk about writing. A simple rule. If you tell yourself you are going to be at your desk tomorrow, you are by that declaration asking your unconscious to prepare the material. You are, in effect, contracting to pick up such valuables at a given time. Count on me, you are saying to a few forces below: I will be there to write.

— Norman Mailer, The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing

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We play by their rules long enough and it becomes our game.

— Valentine, Ender's Game

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The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us.

— Stephen Hawking, Human Nature: Reflections on the Integration of Psychology and Christianity

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You make up the rules and then you follow them.

— Octavia Butler, Science Fiction Writer Octavia Butler on Race, Global Warming and Religion

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I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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There are so many rules in our culture. Anything from how you build a space to what you can inject into your body is dictated by rules. And the only way that I think you can be free from external rules is to create your own personal set of rules that are even more rigid, but because they are your own, you feel like you're completely free. So rules are actually a way of liberating oneself, I've also been thinking too about the creation of rules. The progression of art until the seventies was all about breaking boundaries or rules, but creating rules is almost more difficult and more creative, because it is a more complex level of reasoning, instead of blindly trying to break them down.

— Andrea Zittel, Yorku.ca

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