Unspoken Rules Quotes

• You never date someone's ex-boyfriend. Period. That's not even the unspoken rule - that's the spoken rule.

  Eva Longoria

  Ex Boyfriend, Periods, Exes

  "Eva Longoria Parker Shows Her Sexy Side". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. December 28, 2008.

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• In society, we have these unspoken rules of conduct, these 'shoulds.' Even though we pride ourselves on being a democracy, there are all these ways we say you 'should' behave. But what if you're living your life by the 'shoulds' and you're not really living your life?

  Chris Noth

  Pride, Live Your Life, What If

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• There's a set of unspoken rules we live by when it comes to fighting. We can't help it. It comes from living in a civilized world. Even when you're fighting your hardest, somewhere deep down, you know how far you can go. But today the rules are gone. Today I fight not to win, but to destroy.

  Neal Shusterman

  Life, Fighting, Winning

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• There is this idea in Hollywood, and I've seen it work for people, where the unspoken rule is 'Do two for them and one for yourself.' And that's kind of considered a fact. I've never really found that to be true for me. I've gotten more opportunities out of working on things I believed in than I ever did on things that weren't special to me.

  Ryan Gosling

  Opportunity, Ideas, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I violated apparently an unspoken rule that we are supposed to take care of our own. Frankly if that invites discomfort, I welcome it. I don't think there's enough discomfort in journalism, especially in Washington.

  Mark Leibovich

  Thinking, Care, Welcome

  "'This Town' Author Mark Leibovich: 'I Violated An Unspoken Rule...' (VIDEO)". Interview with Mike Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2013.

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• I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them enough space to live or create, and they were bucking all kinds of spoken and unspoken rules.

  Anne Roiphe

  Fighting, Artist, Thinking

  "Anne Roiphe's Lust, Passion, and Very Good Memory". Interview with Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 15, 2011.

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• I’m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don’t know what to say. I know the unspoken rules of boys, but with girls I sense that I am always on the verge of some unforeseen, calamitous blunder.

  Margaret Atwood

  Girl, Boys, Awkward

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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• Other problems confront women in power. One is fine but two's a crowd seems to be an unspoken rule when the one wears a skirt. And those in authority have found ways to reward women for excluding others of their kind.

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  Power, Two, Rewards

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