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Rap is really just too conventional. Everybody does the same thing. No one ever pushes the box.
Tyler, The Creator
Same Thing
Too
Everybody
Rap
No-One
Pushes
Box
Does
Same
Just
Conventional
Really
Ever
Thing
Whatever is conventional, I am the opposite. So if you want to walk in a straight line, I am going to walk in zigzags. If you want to throw a 1-2, I'll throw a 2-1.
Tyson Fury
You
Walk
Whatever
Throw
Am
Opposite
Line
Going
Want
Conventional
Straight
Straight Line
Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.
Vincent Bugliosi
Wisdom
Music
You
People
Events
Lyrics
Tells
See
Only
Look
Hear
Expect
Front
Human
Just
Want
Conventional
Conventional Wisdom
Them
Right
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
Walter Benjamin
Art
Criticism
Distinction
Significance
Criticized
Between
New
Sharper
Greater
Truly
Art Form
Conventional
Form
Public
Social
Decrease
Aversion
Enjoyed
Enjoyment
Continuous present is all we have, and stream of consciousness - which in a novel is arguably just as artificial as the stilted dialogue that you get in most conventional novels. They're all stratagems to try to get closer to the texture of lived life.
Will Self
Life
You
Stream
Try
Arguably
Most
Dialogue
Continuous
Texture
Get
Artificial
Closer
Just
Conventional
Which
Novel
Novels
Lived
Present
Consciousness
Contrary to conventional wisdom, the blue blazer's a bit of a loose cannon. A suit decided long ago what it wanted to be, and it doesn't want to hear your ideas, but a blue blazer only got around to half the job. So it leaves it up to you to find its bottoms. Gray slacks, blue jeans, patterns, white pants and different blue shades all work.
Willie Geist
Work
Wisdom
You
Job
Long
Half
White
Pants
Bit
Find
Shades
Only
Blazer
Ideas
Around
Loose
Got
Leaves
Hear
Up
Contrary
Blue
Blue Jeans
Different
Want
Wanted
Conventional
Conventional Wisdom
Decided
Cannon
Patterns
Your
Jeans
Gray
Suit
Whenever a film doesn't follow to the letter the preset strict conventional rules of today's commercial cinema, it's considered weird.
Yorgos Lanthimos
Today
Cinema
Strict
Considered
Rules
Follow
Weird
Commercial
Whenever
Conventional
Film
Letter
I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
Zoe Saldana
Women
Settle
Percentage
Small
Roles
Want
Conventional
Who
Unlearning is gaining importance as workplaces are moving towards agile, collaborative working models. While conventional education adds to our knowledge, unlearning will become the new learning in the coming decade, as concepts and ideas keep evolving.
Ronnie Screwvala
Education
Knowledge
Learning
Will
Become
Our
Adds
Collaborative
Evolving
Towards
New
Ideas
Importance
Concepts
Coming
Decade
Models
Conventional
While
Gaining
Moving
Working
Agile
Keep
After 9/11, a few hundred CIA and Special Operations personnel, backed by airpower and Afghan militias, devastated Taliban and al-Qaeda forces. That effort has since turned into a conventional Pentagon nation-building exercise and gone backward.
Erik Prince
CIA
Few
Gone
Hundred
Backed
Backward
Pentagon
Devastated
Since
Taliban
Forces
Operations
Exercise
Nation-Building
Effort
Afghan
Conventional
After
Personnel
Turned
Special
Al-Qaeda
When the United States first went into Afghanistan in 2001, it devastated the Taliban and Al Qaeda in a matter of weeks using only a few hundred C.I.A. and Special Operations personnel, backed by American air power. Later, when the United States transitioned to conventional Pentagon stability operations, this success was reversed.
Erik Prince
Success
Matter
Power
First
Few
Air
Hundred
Later
Backed
States
Pentagon
Only
Weeks
Devastated
Taliban
Operations
Reversed
American
Stability
Afghanistan
Conventional
Personnel
Special
Using
Al
United
United States
Al-Qaeda
I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.
Ross Douthat
Path
Church
Say
Would
Fairly
Catholic
Read
Catholic Church
Intellectual
Lot
Conventional
Despite fashioning myself a very unconventional lifestyle with my music, I had ended up in a really conventional situation. I was also guilty of becoming a people-pleaser, which is absolutely exhausting and not a sustainable way of living. It can be so damaging to fall into that trap, especially in close relationships.
KT Tunstall
Music
Myself
Fall
Situation
Living
Relationships
Despite
Way
Guilty
Absolutely
Lifestyle
Had
Unconventional
Also
Becoming
Exhausting
Up
Very
Close
Ended
Sustainable
Conventional
Which
Really
Trap
Damaging
I don't think of myself as a maverick at all. Quite the opposite - I really think of myself as quite conventional but dispersed over unusual territory.
Richard Coles
Myself
Think
Over
Unusual
Territory
Opposite
Maverick
Quite
Conventional
Really
Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.
Carroll O'Connor
Satire
Savvy
Hated
Objects
American
Conventional
Held
I am not a conventional hero. I am a regular guy trying to entertain people.
Varun Sharma
People
I Am
Hero
Entertain
Entertain People
Guy
Am
Trying
Conventional
Regular
Regular Guy
I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research.
John Forbes Nash, Jr.
Myself
Research
Thinking
Finally
Circumstances
Would
More
Hypotheses
Delusional
Return
Renounce
Revert
Mathematical
Human
Conventional
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