Conventions Quotes - Page 14

• Bill Clinton blasted anti-immigration supporters at the National Council of La Raza convention in Los Angeles Saturday. Thousands of Hispanics poured into Los Angeles for the convention. The hot weather in the desert kept the numbers down.

  Argus Hamilton

  Weather, Numbers, Immigration

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• As I get older, I 've shied away from a lot of convention. I've just been making my records.

  Kool Keith

  Records

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• If you are going to kill the families of terrorists, realize that there's something called the Geneva Convention we're going to have to pull out of. It would defy every norm that is America.

  Rand Paul

  America, Realizing, Terrorist

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• ...the nonexistence of God makes more difference to some of us than to others. To me, it means that there is no absolute morality, that moralities are sets of social conventions devised by humans to satisfy their needs.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mean, Differences, Needs

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• If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, People, Hypocrisy

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• It's a convention, but in horror movies the female characters usually tend to believe easier in a supernatural event.

  Fede Alvarez

  Believe, Character, Events

  Source: collider.com

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• There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Mean, Soldier

  Interview with M. Junaid Alam, www.counterpunch.org. December 27, 2004.

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• Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?... A gang is a group of men... in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention. If this villainy... acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues people, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Cities, People

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• Photography has saturated us as spectators from its inception amidst a mingling of laboratorial pursuits and magic acts to its current status as propagator of convention, cultural commodity, and global hobby.

  Barbara Kruger

  Photography, Magic, Hobbies

  Barbara Kruger (1994). “Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances”, p.220, MIT Press

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• I might go visit it one day, but I couldn't do any more than just visit. I love it, don't get me wrong, but it's just too big. I'm going to be at a lot of other conventions this year, with the book and everything.

  Lance Henriksen

  Book, Years, One Day

  Source: collider.com

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• Unfortunately, the United States and a few other governments have used the war on terrorism as a way of violating human rights. I am referring to the case of the Guantánamo Bay prisoners. This violation of the rights of prisoners has been so unbelievable that the United Nations has reminded the United States repeatedly that the treatment of prisoners should take place according to the preestablished conventions of the United Nations.

  Shirin Ebadi

  War, Rights, Government

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 2, 2004.

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• New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear. To find these images is to dare to see, to be aware of what there is and how it is. The photographer not only gets information, he gives information about life.

  Lisette Model

  Giving, Information, Routine

  Ann Thomas, Lisette Model, National Gallery of Canada (1990). “Lisette Model”, National Gallery of Canada

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• Republicans are just rich, old, white people - that's all they are. You ever see the Republican National Convention? All white people - six black people: paid actors. James Earl Jones in his most difficult, challenging role! Tune in and attempt to watch him look pleased during a George Bush speech. And Clarence Thomas - as himself.

  Andy Kindler

  White, People, Challenges

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• A rigged convention is one with the other man's delegates in control. An open convention is when your delegates are in control.

  James Farley

  Men, Rigged, Delegates

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• I am interested in the conventions of picture-making, in the desire to picture the world and in our relationship, our continual love for and fascination with pictures.

  Uta Barth

  Desire, Fascination, World

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• A lot of senators are so worried about convention and how they look that they wouldn't let their hair down if they had any.

  Ben Nighthorse Campbell

  Hair, Looks, Worried

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• I've been fortunate enough to travel to comic conventions in Portugal, France, Canada, and it's an honor to get to meet people from all over the world.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  People, Honor, World

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Politics is quite draining. There are so many heated discussions and press conferences to cover during a convention.

  Megan Alexander

  Conferences, Discussion, Draining

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• A lot of people bring it to me at conventions. At first I was going, "I can't sign that. That's not me." And now I just say, "Eh, whatever."

  Cassandra Peterson

  People, Firsts, I Can

  "Elvira on her date with Elvis and the fish recipe she got from Vincent Price". Interview with Katie Rife, aux.avclub.com. October 5, 2016.

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• The pseudo-conscience ... demands not obedience to the inner law of our being, but conformity to super-imposed convention.

  Frances G. Wickes

  Law, Demand, Pseudo

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• There is no dualism in the world of light. The conventions of relativity say that time slows down as one approaches the speed of light, but if one tries to imagine the point of view of a thing made of light, one must realize that what is never mentioned is that if one moves at the speed of light there is no time whatsoever... One exists in eternity, one has become eternal... One is then apart from the moving image; one exists in the completion of eternity.

  Terence McKenna

  Moving, Light, Views

  "New Maps of Hyperspace". Terence McKenna's speech at the Berkeley Institute for the Study of Consciousness (1984) as quoted in "Magical Blend Magazine", Issue #22, April 1989.

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• We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Society, Substance, Body

  Michel de Montaigne (2003). “The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters”, Everyman's Library

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• One of the conventions that I always liked was Doctor Zhivago, where everything that's written on the screen is in Russian but everyone speaks English. That seemed to me to be quite a good convention to follow.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Doctors, Speak English, Doctor Zhivago

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

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• No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Action

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• A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign of the operation of the mind, drawing the assent of a sufficient number of other minds so that the agreement will be widely operative. A convention is not a custom; a custom is a habit in which a sufficient number acquiesce. A custom can appear as a convention, but it is really a lesser act, the result of passive acceptance rather than of the imposition of design. It is the difference between learning to live by the annual flooding of the river or by a calendar.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Acceptance, Agreement, Rivers

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