Conventions Quotes
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Convention Quotes
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Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I`m afraid it did.
Bette Davis
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[on refusing to take his shirt off for fans at conventions] Nobody was interested until the episode when I kissed Buffy, then wham. (March 29, 2005)
James Marsters
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On "Star Trek" conventions: "I have the best time. My stand-up material is pretty well-set now. The traveling part gets me down, but the actual convention part I still love. I come home after a weekend at a convention, and you have to scrape me off the ce...
Marina Sirtis
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Within the walls of these conventions, I am Leonardo DiCaprio...when I step out of that situation, I am just another actor.
James Marsters
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I don`t work with high-concept things that start with a premise, "Wouldn`t it be funny if there was this spy who met a ..." For me, it could be, "What about people who sell shoes? That must be a bizarre world ... when they meet at conventions and talk abo...
Christopher Guest
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While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.
Allan Kline
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We support every effort to combat international terrorism through the formulation of international conventions and hope that the international community will take further steps to improve the anti-terrorism international legal framework.
Alma Denny
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We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, not only in the case of Iraq. They must be tackled by the international community together, by strengthening conventions, treaties and agreement...
Akitsugu Bando
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We are signatories to ILO conventions, and we don`t think we have done anything in contravention of the agreements. We will answer the complaint point by point. This is not the proper way to address the problem, and we would have preferred to have face-to...
Peter Hayes
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We are off 75 percent because of the hurricane and the subsequent cancellation of our big conventions.
Mark Wilson
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Traditionally, the third and fourth quarters are the peak for tourism on a higher number of conferences and conventions during that time, ... This, in addition to the Disney effect, will likely lead to stronger tourist spending.
Daniel Chan
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There is a need in our community to provide for larger conventions that we`re now turning away.
Kelly Ward
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Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions.
Amanda Simmons
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The point is that these decisions they`ve made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field.
Andrew Arrington
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The feasibility study showed that conventions we`ve been getting here have been outgrowing our facilities. We`re not just going out to get more of a share of the pie but working to retain the piece we already have.
Kelly Ward
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That is because the conflict with al Qaeda is not governed by the Geneva Conventions, which applies only to international conflicts between states that have signed them.
Allan Kline
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Textbook publishers don`t even bother to advertise at their conventions.
Amy Dutton
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So the result was that in many cases the conventions really did represent the underlying electoral topography of the United States.
Amanda Simmons
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Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed.
John Fiske
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President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied.
Allan Kline
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Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.
Brian Molko
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Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot before there was a final nominee.
Amanda Simmons
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Mystery writers` conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily...
Anne Perry
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Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under their control.
Ali Allawi
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Listen to advice. You don`t know how many writer`s conferences I`ve taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.
Algernon D. Black
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It is important to recognize the differences between the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism. The treatment of those detained at Abu Ghraib is governed by the Geneva Conventions, which have been signed by both the U.S. and Iraq.
Allan Kline
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
Aleta Jackson
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In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It`s so schizophrenic.
Jonathan Carroll
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I`ve been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches.
Susan Estrich
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I`ve agreed to do several Star Trek conventions this coming year.
Nichelle Nichols
