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Look, I like my music, and I don't have a conventional background for a politician, but I'm pretty conventional in many senses.
Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.
It's probably conventional wisdom now that you bring openness of markets only after the market has developed to a certain level.
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.
There was a period of 10 years where the conventional wisdom was Black shows don't sell overseas, therefore nobody is interested.
Difficult times disrupt your conventional ways of thinking and push you to forge better habits of thought, performance and being.
I never nursed the ambition of being launched like a conventional heroine - instead, I picked up films which I liked and here I am.
Stephen King's 'Mr. Mercedes' is not a conventional horror novel. No ghosts, no vampires, no prune-faced escapees of the graveyard.
Whenever a film doesn't follow to the letter the preset strict conventional rules of today's commercial cinema, it's considered weird.
I am an entrepreneur, but not in the conventional sense. I have learnt business as time passed, but I do not have a B-school education.
All I am looking for is a fine combination of critical and commercial acclaim. Whether conventional or unconventional - does not matter.
I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.
People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.
I am not bothered with whether my characters are conventional or not. Because I am not in this for the designer labels and the autographs.
The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.
I came to feel an artist might use anything - a dot, a line, the most conventional or unconventional symbol - t say what he wanted to say.
It is interesting that cyberwarfare is developing into something conventional and attacking objects, infrastructure, and critical services.
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.
Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to people that conventional banking cannot. It has demonstrated that it's a doable proposition.
With '44 Scotland Street' I found myself having to work out how a daily novel works, and it is completely different to a conventional novel.
The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
We just don't subscribe to the conventional wisdom that you can't have an action series led by a female character. It's kinda nonsense to us.
I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
To shoot a conventional film means that you are always covering yourself. You are putting nets and, in a way, letting bad decisions take over.
States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.
Ultimately, I love everything about making games, but I've come to hate everything about conventional sustainability, and I know I'm not alone.
I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I'm not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I'm the odd one out, the outsider.
Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
Landmines are different from other conventional weapons. When a war is over, the landmines stay in the ground and continue to kill - for decades.
I think audiences crave something new. I don't think audiences want the same old thing, no matter how much conventional Hollywood tells you that.
My method of praying does not meet the conventional standards as I don't recite any specific prayers but rather indulge in conversations with God.
We as politicians have to understand that the greatest threats to our security are no longer conventional military ones. You cannot nuke a famine.
A unique style comes from not being able to do things in a conventional manner. If David Byrne could have sung like Paul McCartney, he would have.
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.
The series 'Generation Kill' is, along with everything else, a sustained critique of the structural and conventional fictions of 'The Hurt Locker.'
I think being the conventional beauty is limiting, so I'm glad I'm not that. If I looked different, I wouldn't have the great opportunities I've had.
What has now become conventional in terms of digital marketing and the discovery of new talent was once very unconventional - and people forget that.
Because of its shortcomings - driving range, cost, and recharging time - the electric vehicle is not a viable replacement for most conventional cars.
A conventional truth can be important - it's essential to learn elementary mathematics, for example - but it won't give you an edge. It's not a secret.
I don't think of myself as a maverick at all. Quite the opposite - I really think of myself as quite conventional but dispersed over unusual territory.
Adam Gilchrist and Ricky Ponting are anything but conventional, and you can't frown on Steve Waugh for playing his slog-sweep because it's so effective.
I don't think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to their own easiest techniques.
It is far easier and more effective - and not just in terms of cost - to prevent conventional conflicts than to intervene after an eruption of violence.
Of course, people say maybe there are some self-published books out there that shouldn't be out there. Well, it's the same with conventional publishing.
I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative.
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.
The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.
People told me I was nuts when I went to sign an act from YouTube - and now, that's one of the most conventional things you can do as an agent or manager.
It's not about finding Mr Right, or that sort of conventional ending, but I do want my characters to have hope - and that's what I do with all my stories.