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My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
Jack Kevorkian
Religion
Considered
Area
Than
Different
Conventional
Different Areas
Centers
It's hard to say how far we are down the road to our conventional understanding of artificial intelligence, but I think what we've developed so far, if it's not already consciously awake and hiding from us because it's seen what an ugly and destructive race we are, and it's trying to preserve itself, it's probably in a state of dreaming.
Jack Reynor
Artificial Intelligence
Intelligence
Ugly
Seen
Understanding
Down
Think
State
Our
Say
Hiding
Destructive
Dreaming
Developed
Road
Because
How
How Far
Itself
Trying
Artificial
Conventional
Race
Far
Us
Hard
Down The Road
Awake
Preserve
It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series.
Jacqueline Carey
Funny
Wisdom
Gave
Finally
Spent
Embraced
Voice
Struggling
Clean
Tendencies
Write
Writer
Prose
Suppress
Wrote
Because
Years
Up
Trying
Conventional
Literary
Conventional Wisdom
Spare
Naturally
Baroque
Series
The conventional wisdom is that people come to the United States, and immigration is so great, and they say, 'America, what a great country.' And a lot of that is true.
James Gray
Wisdom
Great
People
Immigration
Country
Great Country
Say
States
True
Come
Lot
America
Conventional
Conventional Wisdom
They Say
United
United States
It's probably conventional wisdom now that you bring openness of markets only after the market has developed to a certain level.
James Wolfensohn
Wisdom
You
Market
Markets
Only
Developed
Openness
Conventional
After
Conventional Wisdom
Certain
Certain Level
Now
Level
Bring
I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having.
Jane Birkin
Family
People
Wish
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Seeing
About
Rather
Having
Had
Know
Came
Go
Off
Banging
Different
Conventional
Different People
Fun
Keep
Now
Why
I think a lot of police procedurals are very conventional. With the stuff I'm doing, I'm trying to approach the institution of the police in a different way.
Jed Mercurio
Police
Think
Approach
Way
Stuff
Institution
Doing
Lot
Very
Trying
Different
Conventional
Different Way
The conventional wisdom is that authors get only one chance in this world. If your first novel doesn't sell, publishers and bookstores lose interest, and your career stalls, barring an act of God or Oprah.
Jeff Giles
Wisdom
God
World
First
Lose
Bookstores
Only
Oprah
Sell
Get
Authors
Conventional
Conventional Wisdom
Interest
Act
Your
Novel
Publishers
Career
Chance
The reason Jennifer Lawrence is allowed to be a body-positive role model to young girls and 'chubby' women is because she is representative of conventional beauty.
Jennifer Armintrout
Women
Girl
Beauty
Young
Chubby
Lawrence
Allowed
She
Because
Model
Role
Role Model
Representative
Conventional
Young Girls
Reason
Jennifer
Jennifer Lawrence
We try really hard to avoid those conventional experiences, these adrenaline rush, anger, competition, violence. We intentionally avoid that. We try to create a game that's serene and tranquil and filled with love.
Jenova Chen
Love
Game
Anger
Competition
Try
Those
Rush
Adrenaline
Tranquil
Intentionally
Experiences
Conventional
Create
Really
Hard
Avoid
Serene
Filled
Violence
In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.
Jerome Bruner
Perception
Recognition
Characteristics
Temporarily
More
Observable
Generally
Thwarted
Stimuli
Conventional
Process
Which
The State of Israel has faced obstacles and challenges to its very survival, with conventional military attacks leading the way to suicide bombers who have killed innocent Israeli men, women, and children.
Jerry Costello
Survival
Challenges
Women
Innocent
Men
Military
Suicide
State
Way
Faced
Attacks
Leading
Obstacles
Israel
Israeli
Women And Children
Very
Children
Conventional
Who
Bombers
Large conventional power plants will continue to be built, but their significance for energy supply is diminishing.
Joe Kaeser
Plants
Will
Power
Energy
Diminishing
Significance
Supply
Power Plants
Built
Continue
Conventional
Energy Supply
Large
The challenge with a candidate like Donald Trump is he's not a conventional candidate, and he doesn't run a conventional campaign, and he doesn't answer questions in a conventional way.
Joel Benenson
Challenge
Way
Run
He
Like
Answer
Trump
Campaign
Questions
Donald
Donald Trump
Candidate
Conventional
Conventional Way
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
John Barrymore
Say
Would
Allow
Fellow
Him
Dear
Die
Conventional
Happen
Should
Thing
The conventional, and painfully artificial, separation of the human realm from the natural other is bound to perish, albeit over a period of time, until we are obliged to learn how to cultivate our gardens under the most demanding conditions.
John Burnside
Time
Natural
Demanding
Separation
Other
Our
Obliged
Bound
Over
Most
Until
Period
Learn
Perish
How
Cultivate
Conditions
Artificial
Human
Conventional
Realm
Painfully
Gardens
Albeit
Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
Joseph Stiglitz
Wisdom
Run
Seem
Results
Counter
Economists
Like
Often
Conventional
Conventional Wisdom
Which
Theorems
Startling
I can't do jokes. I've always come from left field and tried to subvert conventional comedy. I started as a rebellion against that - albeit a very soft and surreal rebellion. It's escapist.
Julian Barratt
Jokes
Rebellion
Comedy
Field
Tried
Come
Always
Surreal
Left
Left Field
Very
Escapist
Conventional
Against
Subvert
Albeit
Started
Soft
I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
Kangana Ranaut
People
Live
Poems
Write
Know
Am
Up
Person
Expectations
Conventional
Cool
Coolest
Things
Meditate
I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound coming out of their head. All of those things I very carefully watched and absorbed, and so I guess I was studying my whole life, although not in any sort of conventional way.
Kat Edmonson
Life
Sentiment
Every
Carefully
Guess
Spend
Way
Those
Intonation
Out
Would
Absorb
Head
Studying
Hours
Singer
Sort
Although
How
Sound
Coming
Very
Any
Conventional
Conventional Way
Convey
Whole
Things
Watched
One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
Women
Burden
Men
Perfect
Veracity
Surely
Been
Falls
Falsehood
Chiefly
Than
Conventional
Them
Less
Reasons
Why
Credited
There isn't much about my life that's been particularly conventional.
Ken Livingstone
Life
My Life
About
Particularly
Been
Conventional
Much
I was very aware of performers who have a persona, whether it's Siouxsie Sioux or Patti Smith or Lydia Lunch, and I'm just this middle-class girl coming from a more conventional upbringing, this California person. But in a way I felt like it's important to represent the normal.
Kim Gordon
Girl
Important
Lunch
Way
More
Performers
Like
California
Smith
Felt
Coming
Normal
Sioux
Very
Upbringing
Person
Persona
Represent
Just
Conventional
Whether
Patti Smith
Who
Aware
I'm not conventional. I try to be raw and vulnerable and gross.
Krysten Ritter
Try
Raw
Vulnerable
Conventional
Gross
I know conventional wisdom has always been to go to Europe, and I did that early on, and I tried it, but I realised pretty quickly if I wasn't playing, nothing else mattered - I wasn't going to be happy.
Landon Donovan
Wisdom
Be Happy
Happy
Nothing
Else
Tried
Pretty
Know
Always
Go
Been
Mattered
Quickly
Did
Going
Conventional
Conventional Wisdom
Realised
Europe
Early
Playing
It is funny, the things you miss about a more conventional lifestyle. I miss seemingly mundane tasks, like cleaning the kitchen, moving my furniture around to achieve just the right look, and checking the mailbox. I miss making my bed in the morning before work.
Lauren Gibbs
Work
Funny
Morning
You
Cleaning
Achieve
Before
Furniture
About
Seemingly
More
Kitchen
Lifestyle
Miss
Checking
Like
Look
Around
Bed
Making
Tasks
Just
Conventional
Moving
Mundane
Right
Things
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