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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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My life hasn't been conventional and it hasn't been linear. I've had to make it up as I've gone along, which has taught me a lot. If you don't accept the obvious options that are laid out for you, it's up to you to work out where you're going and to create your own specific rules and goals.

~Beth Ditto

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I worshipped Ethel Merman and I worshipped Ethel Merman a lot. It's incredible - Ethel Merman was a conventional singer. Her naming her child Ethel Merman, Jr., was, to me, one of the coolest feminist things.

~Beth Ditto

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People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.

~Bill Laswell

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I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.

~Billy Corgan

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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

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Every time I would give a talk, someone would say, 'You ought to go into politics.' I prefer to call it government leadership. My life has taken me to places where I have experiences that I think I can share. A lot of times, we see people who are career politicians. I'm not the conventional candidate, nor do I want to be.

~Brad Wenstrup

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I read a book called 'The Tao of Physics' by Fritjof Capra that pointed out the parallels between quantum physics and eastern mysticism. I started to feel there was more to reality than conventional science allowed for and some interesting ideas that it hadn't got round to investigating, such as altered states of consciousness.

~Brian Josephson

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They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called 'war' too. And there will still be no conventional war.

~Bruce Sterling

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I'm very conventional compared to my parents.

~Bryce Dallas Howard

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