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Never bend the rules. You bend the rules a little bit and then it's a slippery slope.


Thomas Peterffy

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PATRICIA BRIGGS “Wisdom is the subtlety of knowing which rules to bend and which rules to break”
SARA LOKEY I don't break the rules, I bend them. A delicate art you cannot learn.
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JOHN WESLEY (BUSINESS EXECUTIVE) The fact that fans are so fickle...with a superstar, you've got to bend the rules for him.
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GREG SALZER Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
ROBERT GRAVES Did Belikov bend the rules of time and space to get here so fast? He can do that, right?
RICHELLE MEAD Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians ...
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KRISTEN STEWART You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with ro...
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TONY DORSETT I don?t think this is a slippery slope. This is the cliff at the bottom of the slippery slope.
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MATT SPIRE If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women,...
NAOMI WATTS Adversity - If need be, let it bend, but never let it break you.
JACEY R. FOLEY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break
JANE WELLS Memories are slippery bastards – bring them into the light, handle them too often, they’ll bend,...
SUE PERKINS And if you get caught up in combing the Internet for what people think of you or how people perceive...
ADAM SCOTT I've got a feeling that with the best coppers - and in fact the best people in any field of work...
KEN STOTT We must never bend too much.
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GEORGE LUCAS The Equipment you'll leave at home, you'll need the most. You're always out of film when you'll ha...
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JOE DIMAGGIO I can't even bend over.
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SAMANTHA POWER I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics.
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TERRY GLAVIN My thing is, when you put a bunch of rules on a tour, you have to hire three more people to enforce ...
LUKE BRYAN Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
HELEN KELLER While you're sitting there wondering why you've kept all the rules and you still haven't achieved ev...
DAN PEARCE It's always fun to play a character that bends the rules.
MIKE COLTER It's a little bit of a bellwether for the Western Slope.
JOHN MARSHALL I try not to apologize, especially publicly. That's a slippery slope, because I'm a comedian...
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DAN COHEN Love is a slippery slope and it's so easy to fall.
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JEFF BUCKLEY Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
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ANTON DU BEKE Never give in and never up- keep going. I’ll always be with you and help you through. Good times a...
LATIKA TEOTIA Break the rules this fucking world set for you but never ever break the rules the ones you set for y...
SUPERNA BATHEJA The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.
BEAR GRYLLS Christian values were important at home. Cleanliness. Don't steal. Don't lie. Those were the...
JIMMY CLIFF I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers.
GIANNI VERSACE The whole point of fanfiction is that you get to play inside somebody else's universe. Rewrite the r...
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APURVA GAGLANI Harry was speechless. Hermione was the last person to do anything against the rules, and here she wa...
J.K. ROWLING [B]eware trying to bend the Truth to fit your story instead of facing it head-on. That was your fath...
SOMAN CHAINANI The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what peop...
DAVID BALTIMORE But a true diva has dismissed that drama. A true diva's heart is open, and she's ready to pl...
JENIFER LEWIS Go excess volume: more of a bend in the fringe, more of a bend in the sides, tighter curls -- becaus...
CHELA DAVISON Try to grow straight, and life will bend you.
G.K. CHESTERTON In the context of general relativity, space almost is a substance. It can bend and twist and stretch...
ALAN GUTH When it's low-budget, and you have one other person on the set, you have to make rules.
LENA DUNHAM I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar befo...
ROBERT GRAVES So be careful when you bend over.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI You are the steer of your God given dreams. By the authority from the Holy Spirit of God, you will a...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Those who love you the most, let you bend your notes
PARESH SHAH More guns equaling more safety is a slippery slope, and what makes it so is human blood.
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ADRIANA MATHER Cowards Bend at the Knee,
GUY MADDIN Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.
ELIZABETH, THE QUEEN MOTHER The moral high ground to which I aspired had turned into a slippery slope.
ALFRED ALCORN South Bend is where it belongs,
JOE KERNAN Build your life not on the strongest ,but most flexible frame for it will bend but never break.
ANDONI GARCIA It gets a little crazy at Disneyland. It's a little bit more hardcore then people think.
AJA NAOMI KING All I know is I could bend for two hours.
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Which wrinkles will devour;
Brightness falls from the air;
Queens h...
THOMAS NASH The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
THOMAS MANN Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by re...
THOMAS MERTON The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots o...
DYLAN THOMAS Every man loves what he is good at.
THOMAS SHADWELL Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.
THOMAS WOLFE