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  • What I'm a bit more worried about is what looks like an emphasis on Kirk as rebel and rule-breaker.

    Lance Mannion: 2009

  • Simply saving the Enterprise, even if he saved the galaxy while he was at it, might get him back into Starfleet's good graces, but it wouldn't earn him command of a Starship, unless somebody among the powers-that-be believed that was more typical of his behavior than landing himself in hot water and indicative of his potential, neither of which opinions career military types are likely to hold of an incorrigible rebel and rule-breaker.

    Lance Mannion: 2009

  • Kirk is a rule-breaker and he does often succeed because he breaks the rules.

    It's Kirk the Explorer not Kirk the Rebel 2009

  • Kirk is a rule-breaker and he does often succeed because he breaks the rules.

    Lance Mannion: 2009

  • What I'm a bit more worried about is what looks like an emphasis on Kirk as rebel and rule-breaker.

    It's Kirk the Explorer not Kirk the Rebel 2009

  • I just want to address one point you make: What I'm a bit more worried about is what looks like an emphasis on Kirk as rebel and rule-breaker.

    It's Kirk the Explorer not Kirk the Rebel 2009

  • My favorite line: "Singers aren't supposed to have dairy before a show, but we all know I'm a rule-breaker."

    Going viral: Actor Gordon Pinsent reads Justin Bieber's memoir Liz Kelly 2010

  • But if there's one aspect of a rule-bender — if not rule-breaker — that the singer-turned-actor finds most fascinating is his relationship with his father, police Commissioner Frank (Selleck).

    Blue Bloods' Donnie Wahlberg: What Makes Danny Tick? 2010

  • Simply saving the Enterprise, even if he saved the galaxy while he was at it, might get him back into Starfleet's good graces, but it wouldn't earn him command of a Starship, unless somebody among the powers-that-be believed that was more typical of his behavior than landing himself in hot water and indicative of his potential, neither of which opinions career military types are likely to hold of an incorrigible rebel and rule-breaker.

    It's Kirk the Explorer not Kirk the Rebel 2009

  • An inveterate rule-breaker, Herrera pushes the envelope by taking traditional dishes one step further – trotter with a cap i pota head and innards of crayfish for example – and is all the more exciting for it.

    10 of the best restaurants for new Catalan cuisine 2011

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