Anything Goes Quotes

• Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.

  Cole Porter

  Funny, Change, Humorous

  "Anything Goes" (song) (1934)

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• Now: heaven knows, anything goes.

  Cole Porter

  Freedom, Heaven, Olden Days

  'Anything Goes' (1934 song)

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• If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

  Bear Bryant

  Success, Leadership, Football

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• The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Science, Progress, Principles

  Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.14, Verso

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• In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. Now, Heaven knows, anything goes. The world has gone mad today, and good's bad today, and black's white today, and day's night today.

  Cole Porter

  Night, White, Mad

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• When anything goes, it's women who lose.

  Camille Paglia

  Women, Loses

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.51, Vintage

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• Don't worry about anything. Go out and have a good time.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Worry, Good Times, Having A Good Time

  "No Ordinary Genius". Book by Christopher Sykes, p. 252, 1994.

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• I am all in favor of the skeptical mind. Do not believe anything unless you have experienced it. Do not believe anything - go on questioning, however long it takes.

  Rajneesh

  Believe, Long, Mind

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  I believe that you should put the right people around you, people that will not let anything go wrong.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Positive, Believe, Positivity

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• This is Zen, and in Zen, as we all know ... anything goes!

  Frederick Lenz

  Introduction, Knows

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• To me, anything goes. But that's me.

  Paris Hilton

  Paris Hilton (2012). “Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-In-Chic Peek Behind the Pose”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• For me, anything goes when I pick up a mike. I'm not trying to hurt people - I try not to get too personal - but I look at myself as a reporter. If you can report on anything that has to do with pop culture, then why can't I make jokes about it? Yes, it hurts. But I figure that laughter sometimes starts from pain. You might wince, but then I know that I'm doing my job. The only thing I can do wrong is not be funny.

  Chris Rock

  Hurt, Jobs, Laughter

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think it's one of those things about live performance - anything goes, anything can happen, and you have to just be ready and able to roll with the punches.

  Sara Bareilles

  Thinking, Able, Anything Can Happen

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I've always found that one of the biggest benefits of being a girl is that most people refuse to take you seriously. While boys must be constantly monitored and are always the first suspects when anything goes wrong, everyone expects girls to do what they're told. It may seem a little insulting at first, but low expectations can be a blessing in disuise. If you're smart, you can use people's foolishness to your own advantage. It's amazing what you can get away with when no one bothers watching.

  Kirsten Miller

  Girl, Smart, Blessing

  Kirsten Miller (2007). “Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City”, Bloomsbury USA Childrens

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• In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt.

  Saul Alinsky

  Fighting, Blow, Land

  Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.7, Vintage

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• In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made. Because I would not want to blame anyone else but myself if anything goes wrong.

  Caprice Bourret

  Moving, Careers, Want

  "Caprice Bourret...the sexiest fish in the pond". www.askmen.com.

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• Everybody gets high, everybody gets low, these are the days when anything goes.

  Sheryl Crow

  Reality, Getting High, Lows

  Song: Every Day Is A Winding Road, Album: Sheryl Crow, 1996

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• When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.

  Graham Swift

  Book, Taken, Air

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• Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?

  Richard Brautigan

  Space, Perfection, Lovely

  "An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey". Book by Richard Brautigan, p.15, 2000.

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• We’re stuck in the middle and need to decide what kind of sport do we want to be. Either anything goes and we accept the consequences or take the next step and eliminate fighting.

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Fighting, Next Steps

  "Steve Yzerman calls for ban on fighting" by James Mirtle, www.theglobeandmail.com. October 2, 2013.

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• In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens.

  Northrop Frye

  Imagination, World, Happens

  Northrop Frye (1964). “The Educated Imagination”, p.22, Indiana University Press

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• Public lives are lived out on the job and in the marketplace, where certain rules, conventions, laws, and social customs keep most of us in line. Private lives are lived out in the presence of family, friends, and neighbors who must be considered and respected even though the rules and proscriptions are looser than what's allowed in public. But in our secret lives, inside our own heads, almost anything goes.

  Robert Fulghum

  Jobs, Law, Secret

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• If a window is broken and left unrepaired, people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no one is in charge. Soon, more windows will be broken, and the sense of anarchy will spread from the building to the street on which it faces, sending a signal that anything goes.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  People, Broken, Care

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• I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.

  Karl Rove

  Race, Style, Elements

  "Karl Rove Calls Out Stupid Journalists Who Believed the Worst About Him". www.newsbusters.org. March 8, 2010.

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• Anything goes on any given Sunday, especially Monday Night.

  Jon Gruden

  Monday, Sunday, Night

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