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States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.


Victor Davis Hanson


#conventional #dramatic #event #lax #like

Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours.


Don Hewitt


#back #commentary #conventions #give #news

A convention was drawn up on June 17, 1925, in which the principle of supervision, as opposed to that of simple propaganda, was recognized, thanks to the efforts of the labour members, of whom I was one.


Leon Jouhaux


#drawn #efforts #i #june #labour

I only went to one Star Trek convention and that was in the late '80s. I hadn't gone to a convention before that. It was quite amusing, with the people dressed up and all of that.


Persis Khambatta


#before #convention #dressed #gone #hadn

The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.


Atal Bihari Vajpayee


#benefits #convention #poor #tangible #world

I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.


Timothy White


#decade #every #i #i think #magazine

I think it is probably more important to attend specialized conventions for a journeyman writer than any other, but it's useful at all stages of a career, if for nothing else, to find out how the industry is working at any given time.


Chelsea Quinn Yarbro


#attend #career #conventions #else #find

Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.


Chelsea Quinn Yarbro


#break #conventions #isolation #necessary #nice

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.


Bob Woodward


#batting #because #conventional #conventional wisdom #lot

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.


Hedy Lamarr


#convention #humor #art






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