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Israel specifically does not want Syria to hand over weapons, chemical or conventional, to Hezbollah.
I am truly bored with 99 per cent of conventional novels. I do think it's a somewhat desiccated form.
A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.
The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?
The conventional Indian movie industry is not for me: I cannot dance around trees or the water-fountain.
I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to.
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.
I think I always had an unconventional career because I didn't fit the mould of the conventional heroine.
My theatre is not a conventional one. It is bold, serious, funny, confronting. It is anything but boring.
On a conventional film, you do one take, and if it's good, they say, 'Let's do another one for insurance.'
'Vetri Selvan' is the first film where I play a conventional romantic role, which I found very challenging.
To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
The best students are ones that are willing to take intellectual risks and challenge conventional thinking.
I'd love to make short film videos pushing the conventional standards of what a country music video can be.
Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession.
Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.
Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.
I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.
I was like most teenagers. I wanted to look more conventional - you know, to just be the pretty girl in school.
I don't think that I'm a pop star. On paper, I'm bad at being a pop star with the conventional idea people have.
I am probably an outsider because I challenge conventional narratives about who should have a seat at the table.
Large conventional power plants will continue to be built, but their significance for energy supply is diminishing.
Even if you come up with a conventional script, directors face several issues in convincing people to get on board.
I think that the solution of the question of numerical superiority of Russian conventional forces has to be solved.
New ideas that fly in the face of conventional wisdom of the day are always greeted with doubt and scorn, even fear.
I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.
Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.
People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
My definition of freedom is still ruled by the reluctance to live a conventional life, from Emilio Salgari's pirates.
I may not be the conventional girl, but that doesn't mean I'm not a pretty girl. Or that any girl isn't a pretty girl.
I can cook to please people, but it's quite conventional. I make a good sponge cake. I find it hard to follow recipes.
I am not saying that those who crave for conventional stardom are wrong in their aspirations. But that's not what I want.
People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.
It isn't true, in any conventional meaning of the term, that the United States or its NATO partners 'invaded' Afghanistan.
The list of things that are conventional today that I use every day that I thought would never make it is a very long list.
My choices in romantic partners have not been conventional, and therefore, the idea that it is 'other' makes it compelling.
The conventional way of selling products out of the catalogue no longer works; the relationship needs to become more sticky.
It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.
Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional.
A conventional crime story is simple - it's just a corpse in the river or something, and a detective with an alcohol problem.
No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom.
It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.
The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
I'm not from a conventional world, innit? So the fact that I'm getting a chance to express my world in society and TV is epic.