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Conventional Quotes

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The conventional wisdom is often wrong.
Steven Levitt

Authors on Conventional Quotes: Madonna Ciccone Elizabeth von Arnim Sinclair Lewis Judith Martin Ralph Waldo Emerson Leni Zumas Jack Kevorkian Erich Fromm Robert M. Gates Joan Didion Reid Hoffman George Harrison Lauren Groff David Halberstam Steven Levitt Paul Fussell Martin Fleischmann Tim Curry Helmut Schmidt Kathleen Norris Dontrelle Willis Rush Limbaugh Peter Jennings Mumia Abu-Jamal Richard Arnold Epstein George R. R. Martin Margaret Deland Billy Corgan J. K. Rowling Edgar Allan Poe Simon Doonan John Thomas Sladek Albert Einstein
2.
Conventional wisdom would have one believe.
Mumia Abu-Jamal

3.
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

4.
The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.
Edgar Allan Poe

5.
Why be formal when you can be fabulously feral? Why be conventional when you can be happy?
Simon Doonan

6.
I'm not a conventional leading man at all and have no wish to be.
Tim Curry

7.
One of the toughest battles in intelligence is combating conventional wisdom.
Robert M. Gates

8.
I refuse to live a conventional life.
Madonna Ciccone

9.
Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.
Erich Fromm

10.
My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
Jack Kevorkian

11.
I've always wanted to lead an ordered, relatively conventional and private life.
George Harrison

12.
Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way.
Paul Fussell

13.
Men are more conventional than women and much slower to change their ideas.
Kathleen Norris

14.
I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.
Peter Jennings

15.
I reject most conventional wisdom.
Rush Limbaugh

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I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.
George R. R. Martin

17.
In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.
John Thomas Sladek

18.
I think that the solution of the question of numerical superiority of Russian conventional forces has to be solved.
Helmut Schmidt

19.
No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love.
Francoise Sagan

20.
Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning?
Elizabeth von Arnim

21.
Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
Sinclair Lewis

22.
The most conventional statements are both true and welcome.
Judith Martin

23.
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

24.
Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization.
Leni Zumas

25.
I lead a very conventional life.
Joan Didion

26.
It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.
Reid Hoffman

27.
My childhood was as conventional as you could get.
Lauren Groff

28.
You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really.
Martin Fleischmann

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I'm not a conventional guy. I've never been a conventional guy.
Dontrelle Willis

30.
There are no conventional games involving conditions of uncertainty without risk.
Richard Arnold Epstein

31.
I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.
Billy Corgan

32.
nothing is as conventional as adolescence.
Margaret Deland

33.
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