Quotes About Boundaries

It's not okay to just make up false things about someone, especially in their personal life. Professionally, fine! Scrutinize me all you want. I know that I can't please everyone, but personally, let's just leave it alone. It's going too far.

I'm too nice, way too nice. Personal relationships I am very much like that, but not professionally.

If people enjoy my profile from the privacy of their own home, that's entirely up to you.

If your Facebook page has turned into a shrine to your relationship, pet, or newborn, no one will say anything, but all who are subjected to your news feed are totally annoyed. Super fans who turn their profiles into mausoleums dedicated to their teams are equally insufferable and one hundred times more pathetic.

I'm in constant battle with MTV to see where the line falls. You know, the things I do and say and the things they profit on and the things I profit on.

It's not necessary with your friends to discuss something you know you will disagree profoundly on.

As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box.

I can do something for 30 days or 50 days. I can program myself, but I can't give my year for a shooting. No, I will die. I can't handle it.

Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.

People talk about computer programmers as if computers are our whole lives. That's simply not true.

I just don't want to talk about my personal life. I feel like it's mine, I'm not trying to promote it. It's nice to have things that are your own, that you value enough that you don't have to use to sell a movie.

You can promote fights - of course, you have to - you can say 'I'll beat you' or whatever, but you cannot put family, religion, anything like that in the mix. You need to separate things. That is a line a lot of fighters cross.

Parents are trying to be friends with their kids rather than draw the line and tell them what proper public behavior would be.

Some people may get in to the building without the proper passes and things, but I think that's the price you pay for being an open place for people to come.

One important part of scientific training is that scientists learn the boundaries, the safety issues, how to properly deal with and dispose of chemicals and reagents.

I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'

What's awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That's scary, and they just seem to think it's okay to do it, like you're public property.

I like the idea of not everything happening between two human beings to be everyone's property.

I've had enough of being public property.

Defence for me is so important because I do not want anyone to trespass and invade my property because that goal is my property.

When an enlightened ruler controls his ministers, he makes it so that ministers cannot get credit for achievements gained by overstepping the bounds of their offices or make proposals and then fail to match them with actual achievements.

I grew up understanding the pros and cons of what you're getting into and knowing what comes with your job. I like to keep my private life private, and then work is work. I feel so far I've had a really good balance with that.

Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.

You have to find a way to protect yourself in a certain way from people who are constantly demanding your time.