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• First rule of politics: you can’t win unless you’re on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ballot, Rule

• Here’s a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Vices, Practice, Rule

• I don’t work a five-day week as a rule, and I’ve managed to fill that time up. It hasn’t been that hard. I volunteer at school. I’m working because I love it. Yet, I don’t not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff.

  Deidre Hall

  Topics in Job, Work

  Tags in Rule

• For generations, Americans who aren’t rich have been generous and admiring of their wealthy compatriots – they want a country where people who work hard can succeed, where the same rules apply to everyone.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Topics in Country, Work

  Tags in People, Rule

• Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.

  Dean Rusk

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rule

• The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

  Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Dies, Rule

• May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

  David McCullough

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rule

• Tech executives have historically been owners of significant portions of their companies’ stock so there is a propensity for them to diversify as a rule.

  David Coleman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rule

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rule

• Allow me a bit of philosophy here… We started tele skiing as a rebellion against rules.

  Paul Parker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Allow, Rule

• We have to be careful about creating more rules.

  Paul Parker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rule, Careful

• The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.

  Paul Hawken

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Rule

• As a general rule, I don’t plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

  Paul Haggis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rule

• I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been no reserve.

  Bill Dixon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rule

• My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can’t make your children carry.

  Bill Bryson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rule

• Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?

  Patricia Clarkson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Rule

• California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There’s a lot of craziness out there.

  Parker Stevenson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rule, Rules

• Despite what people think, I was such a rule follower at school.

  Kristen Stewart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School, Rule, Follower

• In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

  Sydney Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in General, Rule

• As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Result, Rule