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I like being unconventional. -- Florence Griffith Joyner
But it is not conscious strategy to go for unconventional roles. -- Anil Kapoor
Jeanne Moreau, Lauren Bacall, they had this unconventional beauty, this amazing charisma. -- Josephine de La Baume
After years of amassing information about Unconventional Flying Objects (UFOs) I have come to the conclusion that we are dealing with a very complex mystery on an international scale. -- John T. Schuessler
I am an unconventional beauty. I grew up in a high school where if you didn't have a nose job and money and if you weren't thin, you weren't cool, popular, beautiful. I was always told that I wasn't pretty enough to be on television. -- Lea Michele
People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional. -- Warren Buffett
Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional. -- Anil Kapoor
Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out. -- Lee Iacocca
The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress. -- Trevor Baylis
The Internet is a great place to find unconventional comedy that you can't find anywhere else. -- Andy Dick
It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set. -- W. Somerset Maugham
L.A is a huge place, literally and metaphorically. Its beauty and horror. Its unconventional history. Its draw and allure. Its diversity and segregation. -- James Frey
A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable. -- Billy Graham
Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist. -- Kenneth Noland
Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done. -- Yukio Mishima
It is unquestionably true that the investment companies have their money more conventionally invested than we do. To many people conventionality is indistinguishable from conservatism. In my view, this represents erroneous thinking. Neither a conventional nor an unconventional approach, per se, is conservative. -- Warren Buffett
The true mark of a leader is the willingness to stick with a bold course of action - an unconventional business strategy, a unique product-development roadmap, a controversial marketing campaign - even as the rest of the world wonders why you're not marching in step with the status quo. -- Bill Taylor
You are not your mother, your father, your history, or your cultural influences. You are uniquely and originally you. Be bold and daring and fearless and unconventional. Be willing to use your voice in service to your soul. Go on. Rock that damn boat. The wave you create might just change the world... -- Cheryl Richardson
The type of UFO reports that are most intriguing are close-range sightings of machinelike objects of unconventional nature and unconventional performance characteristics, seen at low altitudes, and sometimes even on the ground. The general public is entirely unaware of the large number of such reports that are coming from credible witnesses... When one starts searching for such cases, their number are quite astonishing. -- James E. McDonald
I guess I had what you could call an unconventional upbringing. -- Joaquin Phoenix
We shouldn't have politicians micromanaging this war because it is complex and unconventional. -- Bill Shuster
Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking. -- Andre Geim
I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot. -- Steven Spielberg
We've got to be proactive. It's my job to look for unconventional situations that achieve what my clients want. -- Patrick Whitesell
I'm not sad about any of my life. It's so unconventional. It doesn't look anything like I thought it would. -- Edie Falco
I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could. -- Gary Dourdan
You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us. -- Macklemore
My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman. -- Tamsin Egerton
I'm so laid back and not high maintenance in the slightest. If I did get married, I'd probably be dancing down the aisle with the groom. I'd like something unconventional! -- Erin Richards
The trapeze was my first love. To me, it's normal. It's all I've ever known. But when I see other people's upbringings, I think, 'Hmm... mine was rather unconventional. Quite different!' -- Neon Hitch
I can connect with whoever I want to connect with in the world. And I can also write my own script. I don't have to follow rules. I can sort of just be unconventional. -- Lynn Shelton
I believe in God, but in my own unconventional way. We're not affiliated with any organisation, and I have no religious education of any kind, but I definitely have my own kind of ideas about it. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
I like doing things in a very minimal, unconventional way as a personal way of saying, 'Look, I made a career out of carefully and craftfully, though unconventionally, making records on laptops and blown speakers.' -- Skrillex
I had a quite unconventional childhood, in the sense that I traveled a lot and I went to 10 or 11 schools. I was completely confused academically, but wherever I went, I could paint. I painted an inordinate amount. -- Ridley Scott
To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking, 'Why not? Why can't something be done?' If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it. -- Eli Broad
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
Thrift shopping is really just an extension of me being that same kid and going into a place that's completely unconventional that has really endless possibilities in terms of outfits that you can put together and really just expressing yourself. -- Macklemore
I think of myself as unconventional, I guess. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected - despite wanting to get some recognition through performing - but also not always wanting to do the expected thing. -- Kim Gordon
Those days of every child having a mummy and daddy who lived at home - Daddy went to work, and Mummy stayed at home and took care of everyone - those days have almost gone, and it's so much more unconventional now. -- Kate Winslet
Usually you're in movies with a lot of dissolves and things, but this was kind of quick, more jarring than usual. I thought it would be fun to be in a movie that's unconventional. Then I met Guy and I liked him. I think he's a good man. -- Dennis Farina
Follow your instincts. Do the kind of writing you love to do and do best. 'Stiff' was an oddball book - I mean, a funny book about cadavers? - and I worried that it would be too unconventional. In the end, that's what has made it a success, I think. -- Mary Roach
...she considered herself unconventional... -- Anna Godbersen
Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart. -- Steven Pressfield
Oh yes, well, I find myself unconventional everywhere. -- Anna Godbersen
Holding unconventional opinions makes people feel they have strong characters. -- Mason Cooley
Empowered women who reach tough or unconventional positions make CHOICES not sacrifices -- Kiran Bedi
He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing. -- Michael Lewis
Don't be afraid to do something unconventional, to take a chance, to risk something. -- Tom Brokaw
It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention. -- Steve Vai
Donald Trump was a very unconventional candidate. He's going to be an unconventional president. -- Paul Ryan
Lost: The common sense of an unconventional dreamer. If found, please return to Love The Stacks. -- Love The Stacks Bookstore
Our people should feel free to express diverse views, pursue unconventional ideas or simply be different. -- Lee Hsien Loong
Few things in this world are more predictable than the reaction of conventional minds to unconventional ideas. -- John Anthony West
Achieving conventional goals, such as profits and joy, with unconventional methods, such as investing energy instead of money. -- Jay Conrad Levinson
We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living. -- Christopher McCandless
People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical,when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life. -- Catherine Deneuve
Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable. -- Robert Motherwell
A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour. -- E. B. White
I've created a very unconventional family. I have lovers who are three decades younger than me. This makes people very uncomfortable. -- Madonna Ciccone
When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense. -- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Our film industry as well as the audiences are now open to unconventional pairings and subjects, which has aided my journey greatly. -- Boman Irani
Our film industry as well as the audiences are now open to unconventional pairings and subjects, which has aided my journey greatly." -- Boman Irani
[Donald Trump] ran an extraordinarily unconventional campaign and it resulted in the biggest political upset in perhaps modern political history. American history. -- Barack Obama
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In my stories, I think, as I've gotten older, the characters have become stronger and more independent, and more capable of making unconventional decisions. -- Emily Giffin
The danger lies in unconventional experiments signaling for a general license to do as they please, and pass off sloppy workmanship as creative intention. -- Helmut Gernsheim
To avoid surprises later, spend enough time to know people initially. Don't just ask the obvious. Go the extra mile... Be creative and unconventional... -- Assegid Habtewold
It's challenging and interesting for me to work on projects that are unique and unconventional. I'm so bored with seeing the same recycled material. -- Nina Dobrev
I came to feel an artist might use anything - a dot, a line, the most conventional or unconventional symbol - t say what he wanted to say. -- Marcel Duchamp
Donald Trump is going to be an unconventional president. I really think we have a great opportunity in front of us to fix problems, produce results, and improve people's lives. -- Paul Ryan
If you can't be unconventional, be obtuse. Be deliberately obtuse, because there are 5 billion people out there thinking in train tracks, and thinking what they have been taught to think. -- James Dyson
Because I am untrained I approach my designs in an unconstrained way and I feel a freedom in this. It is unconventional but it means outcomes are not limited by traditional boundaries. -- Trelise Cooper
The Islamic world is obsessed with the notion of strong leaders. This is a mistake. We don't need powerful leaders, but rather unconventional, progressive thinkers with the courage to open our minds. -- Tariq Ramadan
I think for a long time people just did not know what to do with me. I looked like a Barbie doll ... and I ... had ideas [that were unconventional and] that didn't make sense. -- Sharon Stone
Creative people like to think in unconventional ways, dislike rules, are easily bored, are independent, like to experiment, and enjoy being their own bosses. Basically the same traits found in most criminals and sociopaths -- Duncan Long
I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall. -- Arthur Conan Doyle

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