"You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over."

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"You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over."

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"So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on."

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"I don't think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands like Amazon have had to spend hundreds of millions of pounds you know, building their brands, whereas Virgin is already well-known around the world."

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"The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went."

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"We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone."

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"I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing."

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"We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case basis."

Joel Coen, American Director

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"Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology."

Jacques Derrida, French Philosopher

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"I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?"

Leo Durocher, American Athlete

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"It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"I followed the rules, and I was a high achiever."

Daniel Greenberg, American Educator

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"A little more movement of the defensive side of the ball, some rules that will be unnoticed, but a big rule will be allowing the jack linebacker to move out of the box sideline to sideline."

Ron Jaworski, American Athlete

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"The big producer is going to figure out how to deal with whatever the rules are, but the little guy who is running a few hundred units or maybe feeding 1,500 cattle a year, how will they ever comply with these requirements?"

Mike Johanns, American Politician

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