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The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the reassurance and gratification of seeing the conventions fulfilled again.


Pauline Kael


#conventionality #quality #repetitiveness #standards #art

2004 was a great year for Boston! The Patriots won the Super Bowl! Boston hosted its first national political convention! And - the Red Sox won the World Series!


Thomas Menino


#bowl #convention #first #great #hosted

Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.


Kenneth Noland


#being #certainly #great #his #known

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


Dontrelle Willis


#conventional #guy #i #never

He wore a tiny turquoise stud earring I always associated with Dungeons and Dragons types. Men who own ferrets and think magic tricks are cool.


Gillian Flynn


#dungeons-and-dragons #ferrets #geeks #nerds #men

My religious beliefs also defied convention, leaning towards agnosticism and pandeism.


Alfred Tennyson


#deism #pandeism #pantheism #religion #spirituality

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.


Irving Babbitt


#aspiration #convention #disregarded #eagerness #get

I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films.


Laura Dern


#big #big studios #box #box office #consider

Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this conventional perspective of the Middle East thus contends that democracy in that region is neither possible nor even desirable.


Recep Tayyip Erdogan


#basically #conventional #culture #democracy #desirable

In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.


Jerome Bruner


#conventional #exhibits #generally #incongruous #more






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