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When people visit me at autograph conventions and signings, they always say, 'You just don't know how you scared me!' These people are grown up. They say, 'When I was a kid, I just couldn't sleep at night.' Sometimes they will have babies with them. And they give me their babies, and they take pictures of me holding their baby.

~Betsy Palmer

Topics: Always Autograph Babies Baby Conventions Give Give Me Grown Holding How Just Kid Know Me Night People Pictures Say Scared Sleep Sometimes Take Them They Say Up Visit Will You

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Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

~Bette Davis

Topics: Afraid Brought Conventions Did End Had Love Marriage Respect Up

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George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.

~Bianca Jagger

Topics: Administration Assault Away Bush Civil Civil Liberties Conventions Embarked George George W George W. Bush His Human Human Rights International Law Liberties Obligations Rights Rule Rule Of Law Tearing Treaties Un Up Walking

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Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.

~Bill Mumy

Topics: Age Anyway Appearances Around Book Books Buying Collection Comic Comic Book Conventions Could Country Find Fortune Golden Golden Age Here Late Lot Making Mid Old Personal Spending

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I wanted to go so I could learn the rules and conventions in order to break them later on.

~Billy Howle

Topics: Break Conventions Could Go Later Learn Order Rules Them Wanted

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Now, national conventions are largely an excuse for companies and party leaders to throw parties for delegates to attend, to network and have a good time.

~Bob Barr

Topics: Attend Companies Conventions Excuse Good Good Time Largely Leaders National Network Now Parties Party Throw Time

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Al Qaeda doesn't abide by the Geneva Conventions, so in my opinion, they should not be afforded the protections of them.

~Brad Thor

Topics: Abide Afforded Al Conventions Geneva In My Opinion Opinion Should Them Qaeda

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Unix has, I think for many years, had a reputation as being difficult to learn and incomplete. Difficult to learn means that the set of shared conventions, and things that are assumed about the way it works, and the basic mechanisms, are just different from what they are in other systems.

~Brian Kernighan

Topics: About Assumed Basic Being Conventions Different Difficult Had Incomplete Just Learn Many Means Mechanisms Other Reputation Set Shared Systems Things Think Unix Way Works Years I Think

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Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

~Brian Molko

Topics: Conventions Cool Gigs Like Music Our Outsiders Placebo Which

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Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions.

~Bryan Singer

Topics: Assault Challenge Cinema Conventions Direct Every Film Kubrick Something Something Special Special Us

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