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Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional.
Therese Fowler
Tags: Life Been Never
People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.
Anna Quindlen
I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.
Maria Bartiromo
Tags: Money You More
All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations.
Henry Petroski
Tags: Good Truth Design
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I try to live holistically and avoid conventional medicine.


Pamela Sue Martin
Tags: Live Try Avoid
In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's place is in the home!
Ezra Taft Benson
Tags: Home His Place
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I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.


George R. R. Martin
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Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.


Paul Farmer
Tags: Me Much Does
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I'm not a conventional guy. I've never been a conventional guy.


Dontrelle Willis
Tags: Been Never Guy
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Doing the Muppet Show you forget about conventional filming.


Peter Mayhew
Tags: You About Doing
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There isn't much about my life that's been particularly conventional.


Ken Livingstone
Tags: About Life Been
I'm very proud of the Rome episode of 'No Reservations' because it violated all the conventional wisdom about making television. You're never, ever supposed to do a food or travel show in black and white.
Anthony Bourdain
Tags: Food Travel You
The conventional wisdom with David Mamet is, you do not change a word. And that agrees with me. If you want to change any of David's words, it's like wanting to change the iambic pentameter in Shakespeare - you should do something else.
John C. McGinley
Tags: Change You Me
Israel specifically does not want Syria to hand over weapons, chemical or conventional, to Hezbollah.
Richard Engel
Tags: Want Over Does
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I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.


Billy Corgan
Tags: Me Think I Think
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I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense.


Daniel Okrent
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Anytime we wanted to do something, we found a way to do it through conventional banking means.


Alan Gerry
Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.
Tom Peters
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
John Barrymore
Tags: Would Thing Say
Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.
Rainbow Rowell
Tags: God You Between
I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to.
Eric Burdon
Tags: Think Just Way
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As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.


Lucy Maud Montgomery
Tags: Very Am Where
In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.
Olafur Eliasson
Tags: More Much Now
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.
Thorstein Veblen
Tags: Up Well Come
The most conventional romantic trope of all is that you put lovers under extreme pressure, where they have to make decisions that illuminate aspects of that bond.
Lenny Abrahamson
Tags: Romantic You Make
Isn't that what love means, to fill ordinary, commonplace, conventional things with magic and significance, not to need the moon and white scent-heavy flowers at night?
Elizabeth Bibesco
Tags: Love Things Need
I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.
Om Puri
Tags: Am I Am Myself
I like suggesting that 'we are slaves to the objects around us,' that 'plenty should be enough,' or that the 'buyer should beware,' within the context of conventional selling space.
Barbara Kruger
Tags: Space Like Us
The reason Jennifer Lawrence is allowed to be a body-positive role model to young girls and 'chubby' women is because she is representative of conventional beauty.
Jennifer Armintrout
I think there will be a 200-story skyscraper someday. However, it will require a developer who will not think in conventional terms and for whom economic restraints won't apply.
Helmut Jahn
Tags: Think Who I Think
If organized religion has become less relevant, it's not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs - it's because they've held fast to their conventional structures, programs, roles and routines.
Gary Hamel
Beast Books will be longer than conventional long-form magazine articles but shorter than conventional nonfiction books. They will be published digitally and distributed on multiple platforms, and will soon thereafter be available as handy paperbacks.
Tina Brown
Tags: Than Will Books
Most of my work has no conventional narrative, so it's not essential to have a beginning and an end - your attention can flow in and out of the experience rather than having a set entry point.
Marco Brambilla
Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.
Nancy Kress
I'm seeing and hearing lots of B to B instruments, and everybody isn't, you know, using them... a lot of these guys are trying to do it on conventional guitars, although that has its own sound, and maybe its okay.
John Sebastian
Tags: You Know Them
Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job, and most people are disturbed if a man in a well- paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it.
Alice S. Rossi
Tags: Work People Who
My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in someone's mind and which they wish to use for their own purpose and which they cannot find in conventional dictionaries of quotation.
Nigel Rees
Tags: Who Out Up
For me to want to be an actor was an improbable idea. I wasn't beautiful or pretty in any conventional way. I wasn't an ingenue at 22. But I was always certain of it and certain of its power. I felt the power when I went to the theater at 9, 10, 12 and 14.
Linda Hunt
Tags: Power Me Always
I'm quite lucky in that at certain angles I look all right, and at others I don't look so good, which enables me to play some leading roles and some stranger, more 'character'-type parts. I wouldn't say I'm the conventional handsome Hollywood leading man.
Tom Riley
Tags: Good Me More
Booksellers are tied to publishing - they need conventional publishing models to continue - but for those companies, that's not the case. Amazon is an infrastructure company; Apple sells hardware; Google is really an advertising company. You can't afford as a publisher to have those companies control your route to market.
Nick Harkaway
Tags: You Really Your