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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."
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"The golden rule is that there are no golden rules."
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"I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?"
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"There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once."
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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?"
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"I don't get to live by different rules. The same boundaries that apply to everyone apply to me."
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"You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity."
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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."
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"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own."
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"I had these recipes that say do this, do that. Who MAKES these rules?"
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"There are no rules to writing a song."
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"I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned."
Trouble

"I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles."
Argument

"As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scen."
Language

"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."
Rules

"These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try."
Writing

"I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner."
Desire

"Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture."
Cultural

"Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides."
Writing

"The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown."
Experience

"My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible."
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