My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.
Bruce Springsteen

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
Mortimer Adler

It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.
Douglas Horton

I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.
Sonia Sotomayor

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Samuel Butler

I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that's it.
Charlie Watts

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
James Thurber

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.
Francis Ford Coppola

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
Orison Swett Marden

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
Gustave Flaubert

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
Ninon de Lenclos

Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.
Jackie Collins

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.
Alan Alda

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.
Johannes Brahms

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
Mikhail Bakunin