Unconventional Quotes - Page 3

• The Islamic world is obsessed with the notion of strong leaders. This is a mistake. We don't need powerful leaders, but rather unconventional, progressive thinkers with the courage to open our minds.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Strong, Powerful, Mistake

  "They Live in a Bleak, Devastated Universe". Interview with Erich Follath and Romain Leick, www.spiegel.de. November 14, 2005.

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• Our people should feel free to express diverse views, pursue unconventional ideas or simply be different.

  Lee Hsien Loong

  Views, Ideas, People

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• I’m not sad about any of my life. It’s so unconventional. It doesn’t look anything like I thought it would.

  Edie Falco

  Looks

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• Because I am untrained I approach my designs in an unconstrained way and I feel a freedom in this. It is unconventional but it means outcomes are not limited by traditional boundaries.

  Trelise Cooper

  Fashion, Mean, Design

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• You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.

  Macklemore

  Crumbling, Labels, Approach

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Royal Young has accomplished a rare feat in his fresh and riveting debut: he manages to recount his fascinating youth and unconventional family with a mixture of humor, scathing honesty and tenderness. Much more than simply a book about a kid who dreams of stardom, Fame Shark is a thoughtful, hilarious and moving love letter to his family and the Lower East Side of New York City.

  Kristen Johnston

  Love, Dream, New York

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• Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.

  Steven Pressfield

  Crazy, Stupid, Heart

  Steven Pressfield (2014). “Do the Work!: Overcome Resistance and get ouf of your own way”, p.36, Black Irish Books

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• It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention.

  Steve Vai

  Musician, Conventions, Approach

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• One may have a right to be unconventional and even eccentric, so long as one is fully competent and a decent person; but one's ideal as a professor should be to conduct oneself as an admirable human being: just, kind, tolerant, competent, committed, and good-humored.

  Robert Audi

  Teaching, Long, May

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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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• A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

  E. B. White

  Suicide, Suicidal, Presidential

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• He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing.

  Michael Lewis

  Blessed, Class, Mind

  Michael Lewis (2010). “Liar's Poker”, p.263, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began - in their civilized incarnations - in the same time and place, Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. . . . Science thrives on, indeed requires, the free exchange of ideas; its values are antithetical to secrecy. Science holds to no special vantage points or privileged positions. Both science and democracy encourage unconventional opinions and vigorous debate. Both demand adequate reason, coherent argument, rigorous standards of evidence and honesty.

  Carl Sagan

  Honesty, Ideas, Democracy

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• I've created a very unconventional family. I have lovers who are three decades younger than me. This makes people very uncomfortable.

  Madonna Ciccone

  People, Three, Lovers

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Donald Trump was a very unconventional candidate. He's going to be an unconventional president.

  Paul Ryan

  President, Trump, Candidates

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• The true mark of a leader is the willingness to stick with a bold course of action - an unconventional business strategy, a unique product-development roadmap, a controversial marketing campaign - even as the rest of the world wonders why you're not marching in step with the status quo.

  Bill Taylor

  Unique, Leader, Marketing

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• I also think we need unconventional political action, and I increasingly think that there is a need for people of faith to be able to do the kind of things that people of faith did 40 years ago in the heat of the civil rights revolution. This is a moral issue of every bit as much importance requiring every bit as much sacrifice, courage, and energy as that crisis did.

  Bill McKibben

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Rights

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• I've been making 16mm urban landscape films about San Francisco for many years. I choose different nonfiction themes to investigate and am generally interested in surfacing lesser-known histories. I like to investigate and illuminate these histories, combining them with my own unconventional storytelling style, which is generally a stream-of-consciousness voiceover involving a steady stream of personal reflections on pining over unavailable women.

  Jenni Olson

  Reflection, Years, San Francisco

  "Sundance Women Directors: Meet Jenni Olson – ‘The Royal Road’". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. January 25, 2015.

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• We are very confident that the data is showing that carbon capture and sequestration is technologically feasible and it's available. It has been successfully demonstrated and there are full-scale both conventional and unconventional coal projects with CCS that are moving forward. So there is no question that there's continued investment in this technology.

  Gina McCarthy

  Moving, Technology, Data

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Donald Trump is going to be an unconventional president. I really think we have a great opportunity in front of us to fix problems, produce results, and improve people's lives.

  Paul Ryan

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• When you see a Donald Trump and a Bernie Sanders, very unconventional candidates, have considerable success, then obviously there's something there that's being tapped into; a suspicion on globalization, a desire to reign in it's excesses, a suspicion of elites and governing institutions that people feel may not be responsive to their immediate needs. And that sometimes gets wrapped up in issues of ethnic identify or religious identity or cultural identity, and that can be a volatile mix.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Issues, People

  Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece in Joint Press Conference, Maximos Mansion, Athens, Greece, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 15, 2016.

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• Director Park always talked to me about her in a very innocent way, that the story was of her coming of age and her sexual awakening and her going from girl to woman and that she had the same desires and hopes as other young people in terms of being very infatuated, which comes in the form of her uncle, which is very unconventional.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Girl, Uncles, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• That's always attractive to me, to work with music whose form is a big question mark. Even many of my favorite bands growing up, when I was just a kid learning to play drums and guitar and everything, were bands like Pink Floyd, where the arrangement, the number of bars in each section is unconventional and often lopsided, and there will be small little instrumental interludes and that sort of thing. So those odd forms, as well as dark content, are the things that I think are continuous through all the type of projects that I've been attracted to.

  Charlie Clouser

  Growing Up, Kids, Dark

  "Nine Inch Nails' Charlie Clouser makes American Horror Story and Saw sound creepy". Interview With Alex McLevy, www.avclub.com. July 2, 2016.

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• If you can't be unconventional, be obtuse. Be deliberately obtuse, because there are 5 billion people out there thinking in train tracks, and thinking what they have been taught to think.

  James Dyson

  Thinking, People, Track

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• Jews with unconventional identities should not have to wrestle alone at the intersection where their tradition seems to clash with their integrity as loving human beings. Like Moses responding to the travail of his brothers (Ex. 2:11), a caring halachic Jewish community should respond seriously to the heartfelt appeal of our contemporary sisters.

  Vanessa L Ochs

  Brother, Integrity, Heart

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