Conventional Quotes
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I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.
Om Puri -
The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the world.
William Kentridge
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Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.
Vladimir Nabokov -
Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit.
Alexandra Robbins -
It's an opportunity to get involved in the home front and be a little less conventional. You never know, maybe I'll end up taking some classes.
Tommy Thayer Kiss -
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
John Barrymore -
All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary.
Paul Gauguin -
The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Of course, mothers were very conventional, everything was very conventional. You had to have approval.
Jack Kirby -
I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative.
Nicholas Mosley -
I'm really not working in a environment that's sonically pristine. It's not a conventional studio, obviously; it's a bit ramshackle.
Julia Kent Antony and the Johnsons -
I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you
Charlotte Bronte -
The megapixel war in conventional cameras has been a total myth. It's taking us all in the wrong direction. Once a picture goes online, you're throwing away 95 to 98 percent of those pixels.
Ren Ng -
Active management strategies demand uninstitutional behavior from institutions, creating a paradox that few can unravel. Establishing and maintaining an unconventional investment profile requires acceptance of uncomfortably idiosyncratic portfolios, which frequently appear downright imprudent in the eyes of conventional wisdom.
David F. Swensen
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The elderly have weathered enough squalls to know that this one, too, shall pass. They own the courage to be original; they've learned to hold their own values above the conventional wisdom.
Sarah Ferguson -
I wonder if I would have been capable of producing anything if I worked in a more conventional way with a prewritten script, because I'm of the procrastinator class.
Mike Leigh -
The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and to see the subject from a new perspective.
Anthony James Leggett -
Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.
Carroll O'Connor -
Thrumpton Hall can be thought of as a venerable old lady, ageing gracefully. But I didn't always feel this way. Children want more than anything to be very conventional and very normal, so it was excruciating and, at times, very upsetting to grow up in a house like this.
Miranda Seymour -
Conventional money is supposed to be doing everything. By adding in complementary currencies, you actually get different types of things and different outcomes from different complementary currencies.
Bernard Lietaer
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His Grace explained his choice of bride as follows: “Why would I take a conventional wife, when I could have an extraordinary one?
Courtney Milan -
I began my career at Teledyne, where I worked on various navigation systems, including Inertial, Doppler radar, and other conventional radio navigation systems.
Min Kao -
I really think if you have a tattoo you have to wonder about what kind of future you have ahead of you. As an employer, I wouldn't employ someone with tattoos as I would wonder what customers would think about them. For me, tattoos are just a way for people to find attention who haven't found another way in their life to achieve it by conventional means.
Katie Hopkins -
Why would I take a conventional wife, when I could have an extraordinary one?
Courtney Milan