#conventional

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

— Dontrelle Willis

#conventional #guy #i #never

Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#academics #around #conventional #conventional wisdom #internet

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#art form #aversion #between #conventional #criticism

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

I'm not sad about any of my life. It's so unconventional. It doesn't look anything like I thought it would. ↗

— Edie Falco

#any #anything #i #life #like

What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it. ↗

— George Weinberg

#conventionality #every #every night #illness #night

Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different. ↗

— Florence Griffith Joyner

#being different #conventional #different #i #like

The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#age #banking #banking system #conventional #faith