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Conventional wisdom suggests the primary motivator for entrepreneurs is money or wealth creation and, in fact, much of the political debate tends to center around what kind of tax or regulatory policy changes will turn corporate suits into small business adventurers overnight.

~Chip Conley

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I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to work, did and some things won't ever work.

~Chris Cornell

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There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic.

~Chris Robinson

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The conventional wisdom in an election year is that nothing will get done until after the election.

~Christine Todd Whitman

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When you hear someone talking in a restaurant or overhear someone talking on the street, there are very different patterns of conversation than you would hear in a conventional movie.

~Christopher Guest

Topics: Conventional Conversation Different Hear Movie Overhear Patterns Restaurant Someone Street Talking Than Very Would You

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If you're showing people where it's smooth sailing, where is the joke? If you go back to any movie, even a conventional movie, with any comedians, they're either not terribly intelligent or they're not doing something well.

~Christopher Guest

Topics: Any Back Comedians Conventional Doing Either Even Go Intelligent Joke Movie People Sailing Showing Smooth Something Terribly Well Where You

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The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

~Christopher Lasch

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Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

~Christopher Reeve

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I started working when I was very young. I got an agent when I was 12, and fortunately was employed consistently from that point on. So I didn't really go to a conventional high school. I was tutored on sets and things.

~Claire Danes

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What's unique about the Mormon Church is that it encourages inquiry. I really do think my research and religion are all on the same page. I never could have come up with the notion of disruptive innovations, which went against a lot of conventional wisdom, if I hadn't been raised to always be asking questions.

~Clayton Christensen

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