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.
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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.
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Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.
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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.
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Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit.
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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.
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Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.
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All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary.
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Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
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I'm really not working in a environment that's sonically pristine. It's not a conventional studio, obviously; it's a bit ramshackle.
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Of course, mothers were very conventional, everything was very conventional. You had to have approval.
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The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.
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I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.
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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.
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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.
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I began my career at Teledyne, where I worked on various navigation systems, including Inertial, Doppler radar, and other conventional radio navigation systems.
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It is interesting that people are trying to change the conventional methods
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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?
