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Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, 'While I accept that everyone grows old and dies, it's a funny thing, but I'm an exception to that rule.'
Martin Amis

Funny, Thinking, Everything

The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get.
Scott Alexander

Give, Free, Order

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
Elizabeth Gaskell

Wise, Friend, Become

For me, my rule in this industry is I've got to listen to my butterflies. So if I got butterflies, then those are the scripts I go after.
Shailene Woodley

After, Listen, Industry

I'm a workmanlike writer. I show up every day and treat it like a job. The old rule that writing is like any other job, the first rule is that you must show up. I'm at the keyboard from 9 to 4 every day.
Justin Cronin

Job, Writing, Old

My rule has always been, write the next part of the book that you seem to know well. So I won't necessarily write chapter two after chapter one.
Justin Cronin

Book, Two, After

The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them.
William Kingdon Clifford

Simple, Enough, Same

Nothing can ever be a rule in drama, because then you're saying certain things won't ever happen, and that would be very boring.
Steven Moffat

Nothing, Saying, Boring

If I want to continue to build the kind of effort we have with Do Something, being in a public office would help. I wouldn't rule it out, but it's not something I feel determined to do.
Andrew Shue

Help, Effort, Public

Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

War, Long, Whole

One thing I always heard from the begining when I talked about this being a movie - was that the rule is that animated movies don't work unless they're Disney movies for kids. Unless they're family movies.
Mike Judge

Work, Family, Movies

Why should every single character be an honor student who goes around helping others and never doing anything wrong? Is that like the rule or something?
Mike Judge

Character, Single, Why

There are a lot of benefits representative of government and it is far better than any type of dictatorial system and it is far better than a one-man rule situation.
James Bovard

Government, Far, Situation

What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Democracy, Law, Separation

The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would be a formidable journey.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Cannot, Rather, Purpose

Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Fear, Human, State

No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
Robert Burton

General, Exception

No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

King, Dictator, Absolutely

But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made.
Errol Morris

Time, Amazing, Made

It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone.
Mary Oliver

Morning, Important, Thinking

The first rule to living in America is 'Stop tap dancing, you fool!'.
Ryan Stiles

Fool, America, Living

President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office.
Tom Allen

Him, Put, Energy

The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities.
Tom Allen

Special, Writers, Ignored

The cardinal rule for any performer is that they should know themselves before they enter the spotlight, and I didn't. I was just Neil and I did what I was supposed to do. I was supposed to get married, so I got married. I was supposed to get a job, so I looked for work.
Neil Diamond

Work, Job, Before

Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.
Olusegun Obasanjo

True, Political, Democracy

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
Aaron Burr

Life, Business, Pleasure

The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.
Jeffrey Sachs

Idea, Action, United

American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.
Michael Mandelbaum

Politics, Done, Control

When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy. Spencer Tracy's widow is still alive, and she respected that.
Morley Safer

She, Alive, Ground

It's almost like a genre rule: Don't Open The Box.
Joel Coen

Almost, Open, Box

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