Anything Goes Quotes - Page 2

• Comedy clubs are sacred ground. That's where anything goes.

  Tracy Morgan

  Clubs, Sacred, Comedy

  "A Wild Conversation with Tracy Morgan". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. February 17, 2010.

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• Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

  Etgar Keret

  Mean, Life Is, Complexity

  "Parables of anarchy". Interview With Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2005.

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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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• 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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• When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind: If anything goes wrong, I'll never have time to regret it.

  Edward Abbey

  Regret, Mind, Midnight

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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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• 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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• Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

  Imelda Marcos

  Fighting, Self, Survival

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

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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 and nothing matters.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Matter, Nothing Matters

  Interview with Addison Del Mastro, www.theamericanconservative.com. November 21, 2017.

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• If the national security is involved, anything goes. There are no rules. There are people so lacking in roots about what is properand what is improper that they don't know there's anything wrong in breaking into the headquarters of the opposition party.

  Helen Gahagan Douglas

  Party, Roots, People

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• The fun thing with the newer characters in the movie was that anything goes. The life they brought to it just exceeded my expectations. It was just above and beyond.

  Coley Sohn

  Fun, Character, Expectations

  Source: collider.com

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• What was wrong with train toilet doors that just locked, instead of this multiple choice system? If anything goes wrong, you'll be sitting there while the whole toilet wall slowly slides away, unveiling you like a prize on a quiz show. For 500 points, a shitting woman!

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Wall, Humor

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• Never let anything go out into the world that you don't understand.

  William Zinsser

  World

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• How fortunate we are to exist in the moneyless economy of poetry! When you take money out of the equation, anything goes and nobody cares. It's truly free.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Care, Economy, Equations

  Interview with Dave Mandl, believermag.com. October 1, 2011.

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• There are a lot of parallels between doing a sequel and doing low budget movies, which is they give creative parameters. As a creative person myself, I work better with parameters as opposed to anything goes.

  Jason Blum

  Giving, Creative, Lows

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

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• I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect. The anything-goes, anarchic qualities of jazz and Surrealism seemed to offer a way to cross some of the forbidden frontiers of Eastern Europe.

  Nicholas Royle

  Artist, Europe, Theatre

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Because the problems are objective features of the human situation - social animals without the capacities for making social life come easily - ethics is objectively constrained. It's not the case that "anything goes".

  Philip Kitcher

  Animal, Ethics, Problem

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• For everyday you just need one makeup element. People dress so casual today and we're living in a time where almost anything goes.

  Zac Posen

  Makeup, People, Everyday

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I'm not very much an open book, I do really express myself only through my music and when I'm in that safe environment and I don't have to let anything go out of the studios that I don't want to go out.

  Ella Henderson

  Book, Safe Environment, Want

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• What I wanna do with Methods is keep that around as sorta my freak out, creative free for all- anything goes project.

  Tommy Lee

  Creative, Freak, Projects

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• My school of thought is, anything goes, but I can't do that anymore.

  David Spade

  School, I Can

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• When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Progress, Trouble, Bottom

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• Before you judge me as some kind of 'anything goes' language heathen, let me just say that I'm not against usage standards. I don't violate them when I want to sound like an educated person, for the same reason I don't wear a bikini to a funeral when I want to look like a respectful person. There are social conventions for the way we do lots of things, and it is to everyone's benefit to be familiar with them. But logic ain't got nothin' to do with it.

  Arika Okrent

  Judging, Funeral, Sound

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• Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned. If no individual or institution possesses the authority to act without of everybody else in the room, then nobody is at fault if anything goes wrong.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Broken, Faults, Pieces

  Lewis H. Lapham (1997). “Waiting for the Barbarians”, p.75, Verso

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