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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
Me
Incredible
Worshipped
Naming
Singer
Feminist
Lot
Child
Conventional
Coolest
Her
Things
I'm not from a conventional world, innit? So the fact that I'm getting a chance to express my world in society and TV is epic.
Big Narstie
World
Society
TV
Fact
Getting
Conventional
Epic
Express
Chance
People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.
Bill Laswell
Music
People
Valuable
Consider
Threatened
Conventional
Who
Electronica
Play
I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.
Billy Corgan
Me
Sense
Think
Over
Days
Conventional
Producers
Working
My father belongs to a different generation altogether. He has spent most of his time working hard to make our lives comfortable, and ours is more of a conventional father-son relationship rather than one of friends.
Bobby Deol
Time
Relationship
Generation
Father
Our
Our Lives
Spent
Ours
Rather
More
He
Most
Make
Comfortable
Altogether
His
Friends
Than
Different
Conventional
Working
Working Hard
Hard
Lives
Belongs
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
War
Will
Seen
Too
Insane
Madmen
Take
Unthinkable
Still
Conventional
Place
Used
Acts
You tend to compose things more in the middle of frame in 3-D than you would in a conventional frame. You can really see composition in 2-D but in 3-D your composition is much more complex. Everything has to be artificially enhanced. But you do gain something else with 3-D: you have a sense of space and heightened reality.
Caleb Deschanel
You
Reality
Space
Sense
Else
Frame
Everything
Complex
Would
Compose
See
Composition
Something
Something Else
More
Tend
Than
Artificially
Middle
Conventional
Gain
Much
Really
Your
Enhanced
Things
When I knew I wanted to write a novel that would be a twist on a conventional romantic comedy, I re-watched 'When Harry Met Sally,' as well as the other two films in the indomitable Ephron trifecta - 'Sleepless in Seattle' and 'You've Got Mail.'
Camille Perri
You
Comedy
Met
Films
Other
Sleepless
Harry
Would
Would-Be
Write
Mail
Knew
Indomitable
Well
Got
Sally
Romantic
Wanted
Conventional
Romantic Comedy
Novel
Seattle
Twist
Two
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
Wisdom
Business
Money
Suits
Wealth
Political
Debate
Will
Creation
Changes
Corporate
Kind
Small
Small Business
Fact
Entrepreneurs
Tends
Primary
Adventurers
Policy
Around
Overnight
Political Debate
Motivator
Tax
In Fact
Conventional
Conventional Wisdom
Center
Turn
Much
Regulatory
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
Work
Myself
You
Guitar
Singing
Way
Some
Some Things
Had
Rock
Go
Expect
Did
Conventional
Teach
Let Go
Ever
Things
Playing
Shopping in the future can become an experience where conventional retailers can complement the success of online retailing. Government needs to work in partnership with the sector to help make this a reality.
Chuka Umunna
Success
Work
Future
Government
Needs
Experience
Reality
Shopping
Become
Complement
Sector
Online
Retailing
Make
Partnership
Where
Conventional
Help
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 M. Christensen
Wisdom
Religion
Church
Research
Think
Innovations
Inquiry
About
Mormon
Could
Never
Come
Always
Been
Lot
Encourages
Questions
Up
Same
Same Page
Conventional
Conventional Wisdom
Which
Against
Asking
Really
Asking Questions
Page
Notion
Unique
Raised
Disruptive
Besides the conventional military threats, North Korean cyber capabilities are growing.
Cory Gardner
Military
Besides
Threats
Korean
North
North Korean
Conventional
Capabilities
Cyber
Growing
Our memories are convenient lies we create, cribbing images from others' experiences. We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.
Damian Loeb
Art
Memories
Beauty
Others
Our
Lies
Directors
Ideal
Discard
Personal
Convenient
Experiences
Conventional
Which
Conform
Create
Created
Images
Every loan that we did in the City of Detroit in the 10 years they studied - between 2005 and 2014 - were conventional FHA, VA loans with average interest rates of 6%.
Dan Gilbert
Loan
Every
City
Rates
Detroit
Studied
Between
Were
Years
Did
Conventional
Interest
Interest Rates
Average
VA
Loans
Powerful drawing hands, like a pair with a flush draw or even conventional straight and flush draws, are often good opportunities to try a semi-bluff - making a bet or raise that you hope will not be called, but leaves you some outs if it is.
Daniel Negreanu
Hope
Good
You
Opportunities
Try
Will
Flush
Draw
Drawing
Draws
Some
Bet
Powerful
Like
Making
Leaves
Hands
Often
Conventional
Straight
Even
Pair
Raise
I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense.
Daniel Okrent
Conservative
Sense
Think
Libertarian
More
He
Also
Than
Conventional
The Dorm Room Diet is nothing like the conventional diets you may have tried in the past. It offers guidelines for creating a healthy lifestyle on your own, without the daunting restrictions of a quick-fix diet.
Daphne Oz
You
Healthy
Past
Own
Nothing
Guidelines
Tried
Restrictions
Daunting
Lifestyle
Like
Without
Healthy Lifestyle
Offers
May
Diet
Diets
Conventional
In The Past
Dorm
Room
Creating
Your
What seems strange is that Obama elicits such extreme dislike when, in fact, he is an exemplary family man, and his policy positions would have made him a conventional liberal Republican not that long ago.
David Horsey
Family
Man
Strange
Made
Long
Positions
Liberal
Extreme
Obama
Would
Seems
Fact
He
Him
Policy
Exemplary
His
Family Man
In Fact
Conventional
Republican
Dislike
U.S. adversaries exploit power gaps. It's easier for Russia to invade Ukraine with irregular forces out of uniform, the so-called 'little green men,' than to send a conventional army that would challenge NATO.
David Ignatius
Army
Challenge
Men
Power
NATO
Ukraine
Easier
Out
Would
Invade
Russia
Adversaries
Forces
Than
Green
Send
Irregular
So-Called
Conventional
Little
Uniform
Exploit
Gaps
A conventional crime story is simple - it's just a corpse in the river or something, and a detective with an alcohol problem.
David Lagercrantz
Problem
Simple
Crime
Alcohol
Corpse
Detective
Something
River
Just
Conventional
Story
Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won't primarily turn on entitlements reform, but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney can, contrary to conventional wisdom, make it a winning issue and lay the foundation for a reform mandate when he wins.
David Limbaugh
Wisdom
Entitlement
Election
Analyst
Presidential
Presidential Election
Correct
Running
Running Mate
Lay
Winning
Wins
He
Primarily
Make
Mate
Mitt
Issue
Mitt Romney
His
Contrary
Reform
May
Mandate
Conventional
Conventional Wisdom
Romney
Paul
Paul Ryan
Turn
Turn-On
Choosing
Foundation
The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.
David Rockefeller
Today
Art
Past
Changed
Considered
Would
Been
Lot
Done
Conventional
In The Past
Notions
Works
Things
Rejected
I am truly bored with 99 per cent of conventional novels. I do think it's a somewhat desiccated form.
David Shields
Think
Bored
Per
Somewhat
Am
Truly
Conventional
Form
Cent
Novels
Part of the creative journey for me was not to come up the conventional route. I didn't go through drama school. I chose not to. I came from a very working-class area, a child of Nigerian immigrants.
DeObia Oparei
Journey
Me
Creative
School
Drama
Drama School
Immigrants
Area
Through
Part
Come
Came
Go
Up
Very
Child
Conventional
Working-Class
Chose
Route
Nigerian
No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom.
Dean Ornish
Wisdom
Truth
Science
Tomorrow
Yesterday
Monopoly
No-One
Advance
May
Conventional
Conventional Wisdom
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