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“I'd rather violate every one of the damn conventions and see my bills passed, than sit back in my office, all nice and proper, and watch 'em die.”

Dies Watches Nice Office Bills Damn Ems Conventions

Author:Huey Long

“Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.”

Stories Force Plot Conventions Forces Of Nature

Author:Teresa Nielsen Hayden

“Liverpool have played with no real convention.”

Real Conventions Liverpool

Author:Ray Houghton

“It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.”

People Ifs Play Young Desire Father Dad Drama Conventions Going Out Nightclubs

Author:Ian Hart

“Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.”

Should Firsts Persons Order Principles Teacher Achieve Changed Humility Ritual Instruction Conventions Courtesy

Author:Xunzi

“This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.”

War Agreement Conventions Geneva Geneva Convention

Author:Wilhelm Keitel

“I really think, if anything, there is more evidence to show that the violent games reduce aggression and violence. There have actually been some studies about that, that it's cathartic. If you go to QuakeCon and you walk by and you see the people there [and compare that to] a random cross section of a college campus, you're probably going to find a more peaceful crowd of people at the gaming convention. I think it’s at worst neutral and potentially positive.”

“We only have one future, and it will be made of our dreams, if we have the courage to challenge convention.”

Ifs Made Dream Challenges Conventions Our Dreams

Author:Soichiro Honda

“Public lives are lived out on the job and in the marketplace, where certain rules, conventions, laws, and social customs keep most of us in line. Private lives are lived out in the presence of family, friends, and neighbors who must be considered and respected even though the rules and proscriptions are looser than what's allowed in public. But in our secret lives, inside our own heads, almost anything goes.”

Jobs Law Certain Social Lines Secret Neighbor Customs Conventions Private Life Marketplace Public Life Secret Life Family Friends Anything Goes

Author:Robert Fulghum

“Kino-Eye uses every possible means in montage, comparing and linking all points of the universe in any temporal order, breaking, when necessary, all the laws and conventions of film construction.”

Mean Use Eye Film Law Order Universe Compare Construction Conventions

Book:Kino-eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov

Source: Kino-eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov

“I speak for a lot of church groups, youth groups, schools, colleges and do personal appearances. I've done conventions and trade shows. A lot of different little hats.”

Littles Different Done Shows School Speak Church Groups Youth College Trade Appearance Hats Conventions Personal Appearance

Author:Donna Douglas

“I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable pleasure, though I sin frightfully against the conventions of the stage. It is a comedy with three female parts, six male, four acts, a landscape (view of the lake), lots of talk on literature, little action and tons of love.”

Love Writing Littles Ends Play Action Three Literature Sin Pleasure Views Comedy Four Stage Six Female Males Landscape Lakes Conventions November

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.”

Conventions Massachusetts Old Time

Author:Julia Ward Howe

“We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, not only in the case of Iraq. They must be tackled by the international community together, by strengthening conventions, treaties and agreements.”

“There's no point in making films unless you intend to show us something special, otherwise just go out and watch a play. Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions.”

Play Shows Film Challenges Watches Special Direct Cinema Conventions Assault No Point Something Special

Author:Bryan Singer

“I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.”

World Trying Years Firsts May Two Lasts Purpose Fantasy First Time Decades Conventions Last Year Try Again

Author:Alan Dean Foster

“I am opposed to looking upon logic as a kind of game. ... One might think that it is a matter of choice or convention which logic one adopts. I disagree with this view.”

Thinking Kind Matter Might Science Choices Games Views Logic Disagree Conventions Adoption

Author:Karl Popper

“I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.”

Stage Theatre Conventions Swear

Book:The Life and Genius of Anton Chekhov: Letters, Diary, Reminiscences and Biography: Assorted Collection of Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned Russian Author and Playwright of Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters and The Seagull

Source: The Life and Genius of Anton Chekhov: Letters, Diary, Reminiscences and Biography: Assorted Collection of Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned Russian Author and Playwright of Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters and The Seagull

“Sex is difficult, yes. But they are difficult things with which we have been charged...If you only recognize this and manage out of yourself, out of your own nature and ways, out of your own experience and childhood and strength to achieve a relation to sex wholly your own (not influenced by convention and custom) then you need no longer be afraid of losing yourself and becoming unworthy of your best possession.”

Ifs Way Needs Has Beens Sex Difficult Childhood Achieve Becoming Losing Relation Possession Manage Customs Conventions Difficult Things Unworthy Losing Yourself Swagger

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.”

Should Humans Human Nature Conventions Despicable

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism, laziness and irrationality of men and women.”

Men Writing Character Facts Design Men And Women Chiefs Witness Conventions Laziness Conservatism Irrationality Typography

Book:An Essay on Typography

Source: An Essay on Typography

“Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.”

Inspiring Conventions

Book:The Wisdom of Insecurity

Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity

“To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.”

Inspiring Conventions Deceived

Book:The Way of Zen

Source: The Way of Zen

“The creation of a nuclear weapons convention is not only achievable, it is imperative if civilisation is to survive.”

Ifs Creation Weapons Nuclear Conventions Nuclear Weapons Imperatives Civilisation Disarmament

Author:C. G. Weeramantry

“To create a community of radical scholars, men and women who recognize that rules and social conventions are arbitrary, but have mastered them nonetheless, a community which shares such a scorn and disrespect for the present society that it can embrace the whole bundle of rules and subvert them thereby, that should be our goal.”

Men Should Whole Social Goal Community Share Genius Men And Women Embrace Radical Conventions Scholar Arbitrary Scorn Disrespect Bundles

Author:Howard Adelman

“I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches.”

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Author:Susan Estrich

“My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.”

Men World Whole Thousand Army Golden Destroyed Instant Conventions Dynamite

Author:Alfred Nobel

“White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. It’s a form of theatrical empathy that’s socially and financially rewarded. When you learn to say and perhaps even believe the right things about race, doors are opened for you. When you say the wrong thing, those doors slam shut. Then, the gossips and church ladies will shame you publicly, demand that you be fired from your job, and use every avenue available to them to coerce a confession, a public apology and a staged conversion that contributes to their progressive narrative.”

“It's a lonely road for those of us who choose to be remarkable, and the path of convention can sometimes be appealing. That path is paved with safe lives, middle of the road monotony, and little chance of failure. But where's the fun in being like everyone else out there?”

Littles Sometimes Fun Chance Path Middle Safe Lonely Get Up Remarkable Conventions Monotony Middle Of The Road Lonely Path Lonely Roads

Author:Chris Guillebeau

“Most people don’t really want to think independently or make decisions; they’re herd animals with herd instincts to keep to the middle of the group where it’s safest, don’t stand out too much, don’t move too far away from convention, etc. They want to be led and dictated to. But they’re stubborn, mulish animals and they like to think they’re independent and free.”

People Thinking Want Moving Decision Animal Too Much Groups Middle Independent Instinct Etc Conventions Far Away Stubborn Standing Out Herds

Author:Blanche Barton

“A better everyday life means getting away from status and conventions -- being freer and more at ease as human beings.”

Humans Mean Human Beings Everyday Ease Get Away Conventions Everyday Life Being Free Life Means

Author:Ingvar Kamprad

“Welcome delegates to the 2012 Republican Convention! Remember to set your watches back 400 years.”

Years Remember Watches Republican Welcome Conventions Delegates

Author:Andy Borowitz

“Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.”

Children Has Beens Different Taught Conventions Fearful Shocked

Book:The Day of the Triffids

Source: The Day of the Triffids

“It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming that it bursts the conventions and produces something new - again more by accident than design.”

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Book:The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy

Source: The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy

“Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules and games which we call civilisation. They're often absurd and farcical, and sometimes they're tragic, yet we acknowledge that they are necessary.”

Humans Sometimes Games Crosses Absurd Acknowledge Tragic Conventions Civilisation Human Relations Human Relationships Caged

Author:Peter Greenaway

“There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention.”

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Author:Charles Guggenheim

“All conventions are very enjoyable. The more variety you do, the better.”

Variety Conventions Enjoyable

Author:Jeremy Bulloch

“If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're gonna have to take what they get.”

Ifs Enough Political Asks Dumb Ask Me Conventions

Author:Clint Eastwood

“A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.”

Challenges Radical Willingness Conventions

Book:David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

Source: David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

“Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.”

Knows Play Moments Light Given Black Dark Comedy Chinese Conventions Light And Dark Farce Black Comedy

Author:Peter Shaffer

“I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.”

War Constitution Foundation Lays Civil War Conventions Proceeding Constitutional Convention

Author:Elbridge Gerry

“President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied.”

President Conflict Conventions President Bush Commanders

Author:John Yoo

“Tonight, I am pleased to announce that I have secured $1 million from the Convention Host Committee to fund the beautification of Boston's neighborhoods.”

Millions Tonight Neighborhood Fund Host Conventions Committees Boston Secured Beautification

Author:Thomas Menino

“He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of 'let's do it,' the costs were very small. They were less than they'd had to spend to host a convention of transportation executives. The cost was not that great.”

Eye Cost Executives Host Conventions Transportation Through The Eyes

Author:Major Owens

“One does not succeed by sticking to convention. When your opponent can easily anticipate every move you make, your strategy deteriorates and becomes commoditized.”

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Author:Garry Kasparov

“The difference between a GOP convention and Comic-Con is that the people at Comic-Con have a much firmer grasp of reality.”

People Reality Differences Comic Conventions Gop Comic Con

Author:Bill Maher

“It is day two of the Democratic convention, and apparently they had a huge lighting problem in the convention hall today. They worked all day on it. They still couldn't get President Obama out of Bill Clinton's shadow.”

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Author:Jay Leno

“So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week.”

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Author:Michael Beschloss

“Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.”

People Wells Has Beens Made Given Deals Mystery Skills Prepared Wit Welcome Excellent Conventions Anchors

Author:Anne Perry

“Bound by conventions, people tend to reach for what is easy. Here we must be unafraid of what is difficult. For all living beings in nature must unfold in their particular way and become themselves despite all opposition.”

People Way Easy Difficult Particular Bounds Despite Opposition Conventions Unafraid

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke