A Quote by Erin O'Toole

Beijing has a history of ignoring the rules. It takes pride in it.

Erin O'Toole

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Beijing History Ignoring Pride Rules Takes

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Erin O'Toole
Canadian - Politician
Born: January 22, 1973

Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a little ingenuity, you can make the Constitution mean anything you like.

Joseph Sobran

I enjoy fighting here in Japan under the regular Dream/Pride rules with the ring and the whole rules criteria.

Nick Diaz

The only problem with Pride was guys would try to slip through the ropes to escape. But other than that, I love Pride rules.

Anderson Silva

The folks that are suggesting Occupy move to electoral politics are ignoring history, ignoring what actually creates change. People get involved in electoral politics because they think there is no movement that can create change.

Boots Riley

There's a level of shame attached to our history, and we need to replace that shame with pride and own our history. These are our superheroes. These are our people, and I would love to see us own this side of our history with pride.

Jurnee Smollett

Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it.

Adam Davidson

In 2007, as a condition for hosting the Olympics in Beijing, the Chinese government removed restrictions barring Beijing-based journalists from leaving the capital without prior written permission.

Evan Osnos

Okay, so either (a) I just teleported somewhere else entirely (b) they can fold space like no one's business or (c) they are simply ignoring all the rules.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

I have a weakness for treating people's economic interests as their only interest, ignoring things like belonging and pride and the desire to send a message to those who ignore you.

Anand Giridharadas

A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.

Malcolm X

Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.

Norman Borlaug

Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so does pride. In this they differ: charity gives her glory to God; pride takes her glory from man.

Francis Quarles

Beijing didn't go the way I planned and I would have liked to have performed a little bit better personally. After Beijing that is what stuck in my mind. I want a better Olympic finish.

Alicia Sacramone

As an anonymous participant in financial markets, I never had to weigh the social consequences of my actions ... I felt justified in ignoring them on the grounds that I was playing by the rules.

George Soros

I grew up in the old neighborhood of Beijing where you had a courtyard and trees. Actually, the whole of Beijing was a garden - the Forbidden City - and the lakes and gardens in the city center were all artificial.