#convent

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I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.


Chuck Palahniuk


#always #conventional way #get #heartbreaking #i

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.


Anna Quindlen


#been #blame #conventional #conventional wisdom #girl

Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat.


Anna Quindlen


#beginning #came #child #conventional #cubism

Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot before there was a final nominee.


Michael Beschloss


#ballot #before #business #conventions #delegates

Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions.


Michael Beschloss


#about #affected #another #century #conventions

It's always interesting - how do you actually convey thought through song? We're used to the convention on stage. In film, we used to be used to it, and now sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. You need to be fresh and really look at the material.


Hugh Jackman


#always #convention #convey #film #fresh

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.


Peter Jennings


#away #conventional #conventional wisdom #i #know

Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans.


Joan Jett


#band #being #company #conventional #create

This is nothing negative about the other candidates. It's just a recognition of the fact that Governor Romney has won more delegates. He's the only person that really has a chance to take the winning number of delegates into the convention.


Ron Johnson


#candidates #chance #convention #delegates #fact

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.


Florence King


#bite #conventions #etiquette #matters #merely