#conventional

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

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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

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

— Peter Jennings

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Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans. ↗

— Joan Jett

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I like being unconventional. ↗

— Florence Griffith Joyner

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My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

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The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

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Charlie's not your conventional mathematician... we sexed him up a little bit. ↗

— David Krumholtz

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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein. ↗

— Adam Schiff

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