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Last updated on November 23, 2024.
Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention.
I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.
No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.
I once went to a 'Star Trek' convention by mistake - I thought I was going to a 'Doctor Who' one.
It just felt like all the excitement in the world was in the building [at the Democratic convention].
In 1980, I watched my first Republican convention with my grandfather.
This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.
Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.
The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential.
It's difficult to see how the U.K. can be a member of the E.U. if it's not adherent to the principles set out in the convention.
I was 14 when the Democratic convention in my hometown of Chicago erupted into violence. It was a tough year.
I always rate a convention by the lack of blisters from twiddling my thumbs.
You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by 'normality.'
I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.
A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.
Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.
My work has always been about not being conventional and male gaze is convention.
University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden.
In fiction, we are not bound by social convention, so the things that mystify and unsettle are allowed to rise to the surface.
I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.
By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.
I see by the papers that you have once more stirred that pool of intellectual stagnation, the educational convention.
What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.
Technically you would only need one time traveler convention.
I've had the basic courage and confidence to never follow convention.
Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.
This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.
As a journalist, or an anthropologist, the convention is that people are there for you to study, and they are your objects.
For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself.
Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water.
The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.
We didn't discover our values in a poll taken a week before the convention.
Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur.
A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
I dont feel qualified or that I really have time to be involved with the Southern Baptist Convention.
There's a better chance of a brokered convention than any time in our lifetime.
We only have one future, and it will be made of our dreams, if we have the courage to challenge convention.
I think we've established a convention on the show that allows us to do pretty much anything we want to.
I always like playing with some sort of typical convention or idea and turning it over.
It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.
Politics is quite draining. There are so many heated discussions and press conferences to cover during a convention.
Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
It means everything for me to serve as the CEO of a convention.
I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it.
The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.
I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.
The creation of a nuclear weapons convention is not only achievable, it is imperative if civilisation is to survive.
Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention).
Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.
The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.
People are not free to violate law or convention to satisfy their wants and cravings.
Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.
If you back out of a convention... you can't dodge your obligation. Torture is still not acceptable.
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.
Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended
Anonymity is a universal convention of the blogosphere, and the wicked expedience is that you can speak without consequences.
I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.
