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One of the things I learned, the easiest of lessons, was that the better you do your job, often going against conventional mores, the less popular you are likely to be.
David Halberstam
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The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Why be formal when you can be fabulously feral? Why be conventional when you can be happy?
Simon Doonan
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I'm not a conventional leading man at all and have no wish to be.
Tim Curry
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One of the toughest battles in intelligence is combating conventional wisdom.
Robert M. Gates
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Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.
Erich Fromm
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My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
Jack Kevorkian
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I've always wanted to lead an ordered, relatively conventional and private life.
George Harrison
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Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way.
Paul Fussell
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Men are more conventional than women and much slower to change their ideas.
Kathleen Norris
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I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.
Peter Jennings
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In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.
John Thomas Sladek
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I think that the solution of the question of numerical superiority of Russian conventional forces has to be solved.
Helmut Schmidt
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No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love.
Francoise Sagan
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I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization.
Leni Zumas
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It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.
Reid Hoffman
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My childhood was as conventional as you could get.
Lauren Groff
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I'm not a conventional guy. I've never been a conventional guy.
Dontrelle Willis
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I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.
Billy Corgan
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I have some problems with conventional organized religion.
J. K. Rowling
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Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred to is sufficiently established and can be reproduced at will.
Albert Einstein
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
Sinclair Lewis
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The most conventional statements are both true and welcome.
Judith Martin