Quotes About Nontraditional

Without the nontraditional methods we used to promote 'Jericho'... we wouldn't have been able to get the traction we did.

We're fighting an enemy that is far different than any we have got before. It's a nontraditional kind of war, and I think we need to step back, recalibrate how we go about protecting our borders and protecting our people, and resetting our position in the world.

So somehow we've got to get back to making stuff for people that are not necessarily interested in seeing the common Broadway fare.

I just don't fit into the box.

The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.

We're trapped in a vicious circle: asking the military to take on more and more nontraditional tasks requires exhausting our all-volunteer military force and necessitates higher military budgets. Higher

My parents were just searching for an alternative way of raising their children.

I'm not very good with conventional, prim-and-proper people who are well-behaved, grown-up.

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

Ive never been one to thrive in structural education settings. I decided college was not the best fit for me when I was 18.

Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.

He was not a Babbitt, not a Rotarian, not an Elk, not a deacon.

I've always said time and time again that I hate anything conventional.

We hire people who are freaks. They don't have social lives.

People told me several times during my first campaign to hide my youth and the fact that I was a nontraditional candidate - a 29-year-old woman. Instead of taking that bad advice, I really leaned in to who I was and wrapped my arms around the fact that I was young and female and that we needed representation for multiple generations in Congress.

Nothing that I've done has been conventional. I didn't go with a major label, I didn't sign up with the bigwig management that basically has everyone but doesn't have time for anyone. I didn't win 'Idol' - I was seventh. I don't do anything how everybody else does it.

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I didn't have any interest in traditional art.

I am definitely a storyteller, but probably not a traditional Storyteller.

I'm not your traditional action hero.

I went to Northwestern because I had gone to a really nontraditional high school. I was like, 'It'd be cool to have a traditional college experience.' Then I was like, 'Oh, but none of these people understand what's cool about me. My specialness is not appreciated in this place.'

I wanted to come up with a hybrid show of sorts that wasn't your traditional 'dump and stir' type of cooking show.

I didn't go to film school. I didn't graduate college with an acting degree or a theater degree. I didn't have the traditional route of training.

The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.