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I've agreed to do several Star Trek conventions this coming year.


Nichelle Nichols


#coming #conventions #i #several #star

Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures.


Francis Parkman


#back #brought #conventionality #elements #fabric

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


#around #building #cause #common #community

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


#challenging #conventional #dislike #disturbed #does

I met a bunch of comic-book writers at the Metropolis convention and there was such an interesting discussion about the story of 'Supergirl' and trying to get it right. It can be a challenge, because you don't want it to be the same as the Superman story.


Helen Slater


#because #bunch #challenge #convention #discussion

I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research.


John Forbes Nash, Jr.


#conventional #delusional #finally #human #hypotheses

The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field.


Ted Nelson


#computer #convenience #conventions #decisions #field

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.


Major Owens


#cost #costs #executives #eyes #great

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


#been #blame #conventional #conventional wisdom #girl

Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat.


Anna Quindlen


#beginning #came #child #conventional #cubism






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