Rigid Quotes
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See also Core English Vocabulary (R) List-
Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.
Lawana Blackwell
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Life isn`t stable. Stability is unnatural. The only stable society is the police state. You can have a free society or you can have a stable society. You can`t have both. Take your choice. As for me, I`ll choose a free, organic society over a rigid, artif...
Tom Robbins
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If religion is used to allow you to come to terms with death, and also to guide you in how you live your life, then I think art can do the same thing. But in a schematic way, in a much less rigid and absolute way, which is why it appeals to me and religio...
David Cronenberg
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It`s as though you have crossed Niagara on a tightrope 250 times and, on the 251st crossing---vertigo. You are convinced you can`t move across the stage without falling over. You go rigid from the knees down. You suddenly wonder, why am I doing this? I kn...
Derek Jacobi
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You have to protect it too, you can`t let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don`t believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.
Paul Auster
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Unknown to her the rigid rule, the dull restraint, the chiding frown, the weary torture of the school, the taming of wild nature down.
Alison Goss
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There were pretty rigid rules and real traditional music. Traditional choreography. It`s gradually gotten more free, and the rules have changed.
Peggy Fleming
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The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
Ben Kingsley
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One of my rigid goals is to keep each book under 300 pages because I think so much nonfiction is literally weighty that people don`t get through these books, ... If people don`t finish your book, then they don`t know what you`re talking about.
Barbara Pratt
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Just in the first couple of games I did feel I was a little bit rigid,
Tim Henman
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It`s a very rigid guideline.
Barbara Nalley
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Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had.
Robin Cousins
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I`m interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it`s the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can`t be this way.
Roy Lichtenstein
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I`d just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.
Juliana Hatfield
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I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them.
Edward Olmos
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I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
Malcolm Bradbury
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I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it.
Andrew Aran
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I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world, my mission is to see men`s formal wear change a little bit. It is too rigid! Everybody looks like a penguin!
Steven Cojocaru
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Back when Lawton Chiles and I led the state, Florida was governed from the center, a place where good ideas trumped rigid ideology.
Terri Schiavo
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And I have to say, I agree with some of the criticisms that some have made about that state program which allocates the grant money on a very rigid formula all across the country, with a certain percentage to each state.
Michael Chertoff
