Conventional Quotes
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Sanity - that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought
Erich Fromm
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The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.
Agha Hasan Abedi
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[last words] Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
John Barrymore
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I don`t know why people keep banging on about the `60s. I was very conventional because I came from a conventional family and I didn`t go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having. I just remember bei...
Jane Birkin
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I don`t know why people keep banging on about the `60s. I was very conventional because I came from a conventional family and I didn`t go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having. I just remember bei...
Jane Birkin
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I`ve tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.
Tallulah Bankhead
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I`m not a conventional leading man at all and have no wish to be.
Tim Curry
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I`ve never been accepted as that conventional artist. Whatever you say about David Lynch or Martin Scorsese, they are considered major film artists and nobody can argue with that. I`ve never had that. I`ve had people say it about me. And I`ve had people s...
Brian De Palma
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But thinking of cinema being a dinosaur, you know what they say about dinosaurs: the brain dies but it takes maybe several weeks before that message gets to the tail. So if we`re lucky, maybe, the notion of conventional celluloid cinema has perhaps one or...
Peter Greenaway
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You get to a point where you identify everybody you can by conventional means, and we`ve really pretty much gotten to the end of the road on that. The fact that we have been able to identify close to 90 percent of these people working under these conditio...
Chuck Smith
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When people are looking for federal judges, they`re looking for people who are safe, sound and reliable. These are criteria that favor people who have chosen conventional careers in the law.
Robert Gordon
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What they`re saying is the conventional firms are waiting too long,
Andy Petersen
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Well, what a show like this will do that conventional news reporting can`t, is, we can show you the two minutes before and after what you see on CNN.
Aaron Sorkin
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We use many skylights, which provide a bright, well-lit home. Most of the homes also have at least one side to the house which is visible and has windows and doors for a more conventional look,
Ann Davis
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We have views on social issues that may seem to some that we are hard-line Tories. However our economics policies and our opposition to the process called globalisation could be considered by some to place us on the far-left of conventional politics.
Andreas Renschler
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They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they`ll be called "war" too. And there will still be no conventional war.
Alaina Walker
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They recognized that our air power was just going to brush aside their conventional forces, which is what happened in the early part of the ground campaign. They knew that the only chance they had was to wage a struggle against us that marginalized our ai...
John Pike
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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
Andrew Klenert
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The conventional process of reticle enhancement is highly iterative and time-consuming. First it`s necessary to segment the design into areas to be treated in like manner. Then you iteratively move an edge, simulate the resulting image, and if that result...
Andrew Moore
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The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.
Yoko Ono
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Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this conventional perspective of the Middle East thus contends that democracy in that region is neither possible nor even desirable.
Amy Popp
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Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts, as well as threats to peace, can be dealt with using convent...
Allan Walsh
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Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.
John Major
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No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
Andre Breton
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My religion centers in different areas than what`s considered conventional religion.
Jack Kevorkian
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Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.
Isadora Duncan
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Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
Bob Woodward
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Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
Arianna Huffington
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Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work`s conventional exterior remain genuine for all times.
Alex DeCroce
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It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.
Anita Brookner
