Conventional Quotes - Page 11

• I think Donald Trump is new. He's a business guy running for president. So, you're not going to see a conventional campaign because he is not a conventional politician. He's not even a politician.

  Paul Ryan

  Running, Thinking, Guy

  "Face The Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. September 25, 2016.

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• Like a lot of writers, I just got sick to death of conventional fiction. I absolutely couldn't stand the illusion of reality and plot. I just couldn't stomach it.

  Jane Alison

  Reality, Sick, Plot

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Buddhism is the most active one! The whole time, we're dealing with the mind and how to tame it, and how to transcend our ordinary conventional mind. This takes an enormous amount of determination and perseverance. It also requires an attitude of being relaxed and spacious, rather than tense and stressed. It's certainly not a matter of lying back and expecting it all to happen. If we don't make it happen, it won't!

  Tenzin Palmo

  Perseverance, Determination, Attitude

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• If you thought Donald Trump was going to be swallowed up by the conventional Republican Party or by Washington, you were wrong.

  David Brooks

  Party, Republican, Trump

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I live in a country where 90 or 95 percent of the people profess to be religious, and maybe they are religious, though my experience of religion suggests that very few people are actually religious in more than a conventional sense.

  John Rawls

  Country, Religious, People

  John Rawls, Samuel Richard Freeman (1999). “Collected Papers”, p.616, Harvard University Press

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• You have this all the way through this cabinet so that I think there are a lot of other things to worry about [Donald] Trump. But in conventional political terms, this is a cabinet that I think is going to have a very hard time delivering to the base that Trump courted in this election.

  E. J. Dionne

  Thinking, Hard Times, Worry

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I've chosen films that are different compared to the conventional Bollywood films we all know and love.

  Hrithik Roshan

  And Love, Bollywood, Different

  Source: www.danielpillai.com

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• Any time you try to apply conventional techniques to Donald Trump, you're going to be disappointed.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Trying, Technique, Trump

  "Trump Adviser Dismisses Potential Business Conflicts, Defends Children's Roles" by Jessica Taylor, www.npr.org. November 21, 2016.

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• One is told that you're either a hot writer, or you're finished and you're over. But of course, the more you hang around and the more you become aware not only of what "reputation" is for other writers, but also what your own reputation is, you become aware that it's much more complicated than the conventional media would have you believe.

  Tony Kushner

  Believe, Media, Hot

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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.

  Bernard Lietaer

  Different, Outcomes, Currency

  Interview with Tracy Fernandez Rysavy, www.greenamerica.org. 2009.

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• The exclusion of true esoteric religion has been the business of the State since ancient times. At first this was done via the establishment of the popular idealism of exoteric religious institutions in league with the State. But in modern times the same process is done by the strategic exclusion of conventional religious cultism, mystical idealism, and higher evolutionary Wisdom from the mechanisms of popular culture.

  Adi Da

  Religious, League, Done

  Adi Da Samraj (1980). “Scientific proof of the existence of God will soon be announced by the White House!: prophetic wisdom about the myths and idols of mass culture and popular religious cultism, the new priesthood of scientific and political materialism, and the secrets of enlightenment hidden in the body of man”, Dawn Horse Pr

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• So long as a novelist works selfishly for the pleasure of creating character and situation corresponding to his own illusions, ideals and intuitions, he will always produce something worth while and natural. Directly he takes himself too seriously and begins for the alleged benefit of humanity an elaborate dissection of complexes, he evolves a book that is more ridiculous and tiresome than the most conventional cold cream girl novel of yesterday.

  Willa Cather

  Girl, Book, Character

  Willa Cather (1990). “Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters”, p.59, U of Nebraska Press

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• In most old communities there is a common sense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable to certain laws of conventional propriety and honor, has for its object simply the gratification of its appetites, and frowns with quite a conservative air on all new inventions, all untried experiments in iniquity.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Air, Law, Common Sense

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.39

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• When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?

  Honore de Balzac

  Fashion, Good Man, Littles

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• As anyone who has ever fallen foul of an airport, a conventional hospital or a bad restaurant knows, misery is made up of little things.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Airports, Littles, Misery

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• George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Kings, Would Be, Duty

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• It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Sleep, Gains, Conformity

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• The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain our security. We must begin to become compassionate and wise in the fundamental sense, open and relating to the world as it is.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Wise, Honesty, Meditation

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.156, Shambhala Publications

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• All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Practice, Agency, Self

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• The secret of literature, which conventional people don't guess, is that writers are forever looking for the surprising revelation - not for reinforcement of collective wisdom.

  Carol Bly

  People, Forever, Secret

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• A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional and orthodox way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him. It is necessarily part of the business of a banker to maintain appearances, and to confess a conventional respectability, which is more than human. Life-long practices of this kind make them the most romantic and the least realistic of men.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Men, Practice, Long

  "The Consequences to the Banks of the Collapse of Money Values" (1931)

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• Dewey repudiated what he called militant atheism. He felt that people have innate religious qualities, such as compassion for sufferers, an urge to improve life, and a sense of awe before the mysteries of existence. However, by the standards of conventional religion, Dewey was an atheist.

  James A. Haught

  Religious, Atheist, Compassion

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• Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.

  Dan Barber

  Agriculture, Needs, Alternatives

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• Within 2 years Im predicting...that youre going to see a suitcase nuke in this country. Youre probably going to see a release in a few years of something communicable. & I am predicting that you will see a lot of conventional bombings...in the next year or so.

  Alex Jones

  Country, Years, Next Year

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• I was like most teenagers. I wanted to look more conventional - you know, to just be the pretty girl in school.

  Lily Cole

  Girl, Teenager, School

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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