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My rule of thumb is that if I am interested or intrigued by something, others will be as well.
Wolf Blitzer

Others, Interested, Thumb

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.
Matt Blunt

Education, Society, Knowledge

Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.
Moses Mendelssohn

Care, Himself, Except

We Americans look at the last 300 years of history, and we basically see a world that's getting better and better. The rule of freedom expands. The economy develops. We have risen to become the world's greatest power.
Walter Russell Mead

Power, History, Freedom

No one in this body wants to see terrorism and the rule of force prevail in Iraq. Some on the other side say otherwise, but I believe they know better.
Raul Grijalva

Body, Wants, Terrorism

Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule.
Richard Curtis

Nice, Down, Small

For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are.
Leslie Charteris

Life, Everything, Adventure

I try to live by the rule do what makes you happy.
Niki Taylor

Happy, Live, Try

As a rule it usually takes three or four readings for me to be interested in a script, and if I'm interested I'll read it three or four times before I make a strong decision.
Chris Cooper

Strong, Decision, Before

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.
Edward Carpenter

Success, Great, Thought

The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.
John Mortimer

Yourself, Writing, Found

And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don't.
Vanessa Williams

Throughout my political career, I've believed in the concept of home rule. Some call it local control. Whichever phrase you use, the concept is the same - the best decisions are those made closest to those who will be impacted by the decisions.
Linda Lingle

Best, Home, Political

I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.

Worth, Followed

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.
Herbert Marcuse

Powerful, Made, Liberty

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
Alice James

Five, Minutes, Twenty

The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.
Anthea Turner

Yourself, Everything, Try

If we accept the rule of those who think they are the bosses and lords of Mexico, nothing will change for the people on the bottom.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Change, Nothing, Accept

It is no secret to anyone that we are going to rule in the most delicate circumstances Spain has faced in 30 years.
Mariano Rajoy

Secret, Anyone, Spain

There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both.
Roland Emmerich

Snow, Away, Both

The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life - it didn't make up a rule for the convenience of a particular time like a rule at a country club as the Governor would have us believe.
Wellington Mara

Life, Time, Human

That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money.
Pauly Shore

Money, Spend, Hollywood

As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to sleep under totalitarian rule and wake up in a democracy, it makes me laugh.
Aleksandr Lebed

Sleep, Laugh, Democracy

A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things.
James Inhofe

People are, well, only human. We know that. The rule of law is borne out in identifying, condemning, and punishing those who violate the standards on which we all agree. This is exactly what we do in America.
James Inhofe

Human, Law, America

I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.
Ava Gardner

Trust, Heart, Him

My dad is a lawyer and my mom is an artist. So growing up was exactly what it sounds like - strict household but a lot of creativity. They are so psyched that I get to make music for a living. My parents rule.
Ty Segall

Music, Mom, Dad

I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.
Hume Cronyn

Everything, Play, Try

Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.
Helena Rubinstein

Remember, Artist, Whether

The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.
Jane Bryant Quinn

Give, Once, Alive

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