Conventional Quotes - Page 15

• Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure.

  John Thorn

  Baseball, Player, Treasure

  John Thorn (1995). “Baseball: our game”, Penguin Books

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• Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was not anything "magical" but the right attitude, the focus on nature's reality, the focus on asking the right questions, the willingness to try (and to discard) unconventional answers, the sensitive ear for phoniness, self-deception, bombast, and conventional but unproven assumptions.

  Philip Warren Anderson

  Nature, Attitude, Science

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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.

  Jane Birkin

  Fun, People, Wish

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

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• I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Thinking, Choices, Foolish

  "Madonna Misses "Certain Things" About Being Married". OK! Magazine, January 12, 2012.

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• I'm not a conventional leading man at all and have no wish to be.

  Tim Curry

  Men, Wish

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Doing the Muppet Show you forget about conventional filming.

  Peter Mayhew

  Forget, Muppet, Shows

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• I've been with the same person for a very long time but I'm just non-conventional in that way. I don't think people need to be married. I think a lot of people need that piece of paper, but I don't think everybody needs that to feel secure

  Eva Mendes

  Thinking, Long, People

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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

  Wisdom, Media, Filters

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• Because investors are not usually penalized for adhering to conventional practices, doing so is the less professionally risky strategy, even though it virtually guarantees against superior performance.

  Seth Klarman

  Practice, Guarantees, Strategy

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• Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms, downplaying or giving verbal respectability to savagery and slaughter.

  Patrick Cockburn

  War, Thinking, Giving

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• I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Teacher, Art, Mind

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• I think conventional wisdom is that time is not on our side. But there are a number of members of Congress who have primaries and when those primaries are done, they may be more inclined to address the issue of comprehensive immigration reform.

  John McCain

  Thinking, Numbers, Issues

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• Saddam Hussein had a lengthy history of reckless and sudden aggression. He cultivated ties to terror -- hosting the Abu Nidal organization, supporting terrorists, and making payments to the families of suicide bombers. He also had an established relationship with Al Qaida -- providing training to Al Qaida members in areas of poisons, gases and conventional bombs. He built, possessed, and used weapons of mass destruction.

  Dick Cheney

  Suicide, Mass Destruction, Organization

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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

  Women, Home, Pity

  Anita Brookner (1987). “A friend from England”, Pantheon

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• I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it in a conventional way. A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

  Alan Cumming

  Blood, Play, Mind

  "Alan Cumming To Strip Off In One-man MacBeth" by wenn.com, June 7, 2012.

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• A clearer and more conventional narrative would have helped the film without, in my opinion, lessening its beauty and its impact. Frankly, I'm still trying to figure out what I'm doing there and what I was supposed to add in that context! What's more, Terry Malick himself never managed to explain it to me clearly.

  Sean Penn

  Impact, Trying, Add

  "Sean Penn on The Tree of Life: 'Terry never managed to explain it clearly'" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2011.

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• I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films.

  Laura Dern

  Stars, Office, Hollywood

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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

  Inspirational, Real, Work

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• I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel, and I think that the quality of the novel I write will derive precisely from the peculiarity or aloneness, if you will, of the experience I write from.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Thinking, Quality

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.10, Macmillan

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• My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Attitude, Golf, Games

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process we lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: the guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win. The North Vietnamese used their armed forces the way a bull-fighter uses his cape to keep us lunging in areas of marginal political importance.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Military, War, Army

  "The Vietnam Negotiations". Foreign Affairs, Vol. 48, No. 2, p. 214, January 1969.

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• The conventional heaven with its angels perpetually singing etc nearly drove me mad in my youth and made me an atheist for ten years. My opinion is that we shall be reincarnated.

  David Lloyd George

  Atheist, Angel, Years

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• Two [Massachusetts coal burning power plants] remain: Brayton Point in the South Coast region and Mt. Tom, just down the road. Within the next four years, both should shut down and Massachusetts should finally end all reliance on conventional coal generation.

  Deval Patrick

  Two, Years, Next

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• Currency speculation-over a trillion dollars a day-is a tax-free activity. The notion of a tax on "day trades" or other speculative swaps was revived in recent years, but has been studiously ignored by all our purveyors of conventional economic wisdom. That is because we have been persuaded, against logic, and moral sense, that the institution that most needs our support these days is not society, nor the human community, but the global corporation.

  Eric Kierans

  Years, Support, Community

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• Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.

  Moby

  Funny, Family, Father

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