Conventional Quotes - Page 23

• I don't view myself as a particularly intelligent people, but I do have one ability that I've demonstrated over and over again, that's helped me see things that other people for whatever reason have not seen. That's that most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. I guess it could be stated that most people only hear the music, not the lyrics of human events.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Intelligent, Views, People

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• A bully has no respect for a weakling and the way to stop a bully is not to be weak. The way to stop a bully from ever being a bully is to say: "I'm as strong as you. Anything you do to me, I can do to you." We are going for nuclear and conventional disarmament but we're going about it in the right way.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Strong, Bully, Nuclear

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• Sonically, musicians always go above and beyond in our efforts to disrupt radio. It's always about being different. Our radio is never conventional anyway.

  Pusha T

  Effort, Being Different, Musician

  Source: theneptunes.org

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• Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization.

  Leni Zumas

  Writing, Realist

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There is a vast need for all types of protest today, whether it be civil disobedience, or whether it be on a - more conventional variety.

  William Kunstler

  Today, Needs, Type

  Source: openvault.wgbh.org

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• You can email me, but I prefer letters that come through conventional mail. I like letters that have been licked by strangers.

  David Letterman

  Email, Letters, Stranger

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• There are a very small number of doctors in France that use essential oils and herbs as well as conventional drugs in their treatments and sometimes they will use essential oils intensively, usually because they are treating people with cancer or chronic infections that patients have had for years, and ingested essential oils are a really a great choice for treating chronic infections if you're a doctor.

  Robert Tisserand

  Cancer, Doctors, Small Numbers

  Source: roberttisserand.com

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• I think the Russians basically don't think the North Koreans and the Iranians have the capabilities to get weapon systems that can threaten them, or that if they do the Russians know how to handle them and that that's the reason that it's all the more important that Russians be involved in the sale of high-end conventional weapons, the Bushehr nuclear reactor in the case of Russia and Iran, and similar kinds of relationships.

  John Bolton

  Thinking, Iran, Russia

  Source: humanevents.com

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• Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Wealth, Social, Mark

  Thorstein Veblen (1993). “A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism”, p.26, M.E. Sharpe

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• The music has gotten thick. Guys give me tunes and they're full of chords. I can't play them...I think a movement in jazz is beginning away from the conventional string of chords, and a return to emphasis on melodic rather than harmonic variation. There will be fewer chords but infinite possibilities as to what to do with them.

  Miles Davis

  Thinking, Play, Giving

  "Miles on Miles: Interviews and Encounters with Miles Davis". Book by Paul Maher, ‎Michael K. Dorr, p. 18, 2009.

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• (The) process of acting is no different to conventional screen acting, in that it's providing a perfect interface between the director and the performer. So there's no sort of long way around a viral committee of animators.

  Andy Serkis

  Long, Perfect, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• The British people are extremely conventional. You don't always know what one is thinking or feeling because it is basically hidden. The British people basically let you see what they want you to see.

  Tina Turner

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  Source: www.tina-turner.nl

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• Questions like, "Is my suit OK?", or "Is my job performance satisfactory?", are impossible to think about in the absence of a suitable frame of reference. For an interview suit to serve its purpose, it must make you look good relative to other candidates for the job you want. For your job performance to be satisfactory, it must compare favorably with the performance of others who want the same promotion you do. As Charles Darwin saw clearly, much of life is graded on the curve, and conventional economic models completely ignore that fact.

  Robert H. Frank

  Jobs, Thinking, Economic Models

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I've been a writer and a parent since adolescence, it feels like, and I'm still making both gigs up as I go along. I did both in different forms of isolation - too young by conventional standards, too far off-grid culturally and geographically. So my experience is probably too specific to be useful. None of us do this stuff the same way. We just try to endure and press on, I guess.

  Tim Winton

  Parent, Trying, Different

  Source: www.readings.com.au

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• I haven't looked at marriage in the conventional sense, as far as settling down. I look at it as putting faith in another person, which has always been hard for me to do.

  Marilyn Manson

  Looks, Settling, Persons

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• No country can hope to beat the Yanks off with conventional weapons - they've got air, sea and land completely covered. The only recourse is chemical, biological and nuclear weapons (the Yanks used them in Vietnam, and have not ruled out using them in this war).

  Margo Kingston

  Country, War, Air

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• Watch what happens on Twitter. One thing leads to another very quickly. And in an ironic sense, even though it's such a democratic form of communication, there's a funny way in which it leads to a hardening of a conventional wisdom much more quickly than might happen if you were reflecting on it a little more.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Communication, Ironic, Watches

  "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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• Remember, the conventional wisdom is, "Yeah, you can do this like [Donald] Trump has done it during the primaries, buuuut once you get to the general, it's not about national votes. It's about states! It's about swing states. It's about battleground states. And you've gotta have targeted expenditures, great ads running against your opponent in those swing states."

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Swings, Done

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In America we're seeing the emergence of Donald Trump, who's the anti-establishment candidate, if you will, who's bucking all the conventional political wisdom on the basis of the fact that so many Americans feel that they've been left behind by the political system and that it's working to entrench advantage by insiders, rather than advantage the people of that country.

  Cory Bernardi

  Country, America, People

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I disagree that Blood Will Out is a memoir in the conventional sense. It's the story of a relationship, primarily, not an individual. The "me" in the book is a specialized version of me, the person who Clark manipulated and fooled. I could cover the same years of my life from an entirely different perspective in another book, by concentrating on my experience as a husband, say. But I was selective. I focused on my duping.

  Walter Kirn

  Husband, Book, Blood

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you move furniture all day, if you're a construction worker, if you have a job that's real physical, this idea that there is a sport that involves the kind of conventional, traditional view of toughness, you see that still as a positive thing.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Sports, Jobs, Real

  "Chuck Klosterman: The future will be worse than you think". Interview with Chris Weller, www.businessinsider.com. June 6, 2016.

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• I think The Magicians takes these conventional ideas from this Christian literature of good vs. evil and it sort of shakes it up and asks a deeper, darker question about the nature of not just humanity in the face of good vs. evil, but the challenges of everyday life. And I think there's something incredibly timely about that and incredibly relatable to anyone who's growing up. Because we're all growing up. We're all constantly evolving.

  Hale Appleman

  Christian, Growing Up, Thinking

  "Why Eliot on The Magicians Is the Fantasy Character We've All Been Waiting For". Interview with Kelsie Gibson, www.popsugar.com. February 9, 2016.

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• When I did find guys with whom I was very sexually compatible, trying to figure out how romance worked... when you're a gay guy you don't necessarily have that same push to make a conventional relationship work.

  Guy Branum

  Gay, Guy, Romance

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In a sense these are questions that most people ask themselves to some extent. They become philosophical when asked with a persistence and rigour that pushes past conventional or evasive answers. It's nothing to do with acquiring a technical facility in an academic discipline.

  George Pattison

  Philosophical, Persistence, Past

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• If Americans were attacked, it does change the equation. The problem is, is that with regard to this is there've been horrendous killings of civilians with conventional weapons.

  Rand Paul

  Weapons, Doe, Problem

  "Rand Paul On Syria: 'I Think There's Evil On Both Sides'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 11, 2013.

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