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

  Frederick Lenz

  Introduction, Knows

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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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• 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 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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• 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'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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• If anything goes wrong, the customer doesn't care whose fault it is. He's the one who's going to suffer anyway.

  Jan Carlzon

  Educational, Suffering, Care

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• That seems to be crossing some kind of line," I say. :So anything goes?" They both stare at me- Beetee with doubt, Gale with hostility. "I guess there isn't a rule book for what might be unacceptable to do to another human being.

  Suzanne Collins

  Book, Doubt, Lines

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.186, Scholastic Inc.

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• There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past so there's not much that's missing.

  Graydon Carter

  Past, Missing, Wish

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• Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me

  Ethel Merman

  Four

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• It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive a view of man and his social surroundings. To those who look at the rich material provided by history, and who are not intent on impoverishing it in order to please their lower instincts, their craving for intellectual security in the form of clarity, precision, "objectivity," "truth," it will become clear that there is only one principle that can be defended under all circumstances and in all stages of human development. It is the principle: anything goes.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Truth, Science, Men

  "Against Method". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1975.

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• My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always been fascinated by the fifties because of him. There was a hip, cool, anything-goes atmosphere back then, but looking good was still a priority.

  Dylan McDermott

  Dad, Sharks, Priorities

  "In Search Of Dylan McDermott". www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• When it comes to the music making, that's when we completely are open and just let anything go down in the studio. It's nice to go with whatever's happening. It's really important to just let the music come out of you.

  Georgia Nott

  Nice, Important, Music Making

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• ... Really get to know and establish relationships with your teammates because they are your new family and they will be the ones there for you when anything goes wrong.

  Alex Morgan

  New Family, Teammate, Knows

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• Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes.

  Ayn Rand

  Taken, Long, Evil

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.80, Penguin

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• I was also partying a lot, and when you party that much, you feel irrelevant to the meaning of things; things hit you with a very sick center. And 9/11 is no exception to that. I really wondered: "How could anything go on?"

  Carlos Dengler

  Party, Sick, Goes On

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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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