Tradition Quotes - Page 11

• Waiting for someone to propose to you only passes the "Really, it's tradition!" sniff test when both of you think it's the man's job to propose and both of you think that's awesome.

  Carolyn Hax

  Thinking, Waiting, Propose

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Americans, Poles, and the nations of Europe value individual freedom and sovereignty. We must work together to confront forces, whether they come from inside or out, from the South or the East, that threaten over time to undermine the values and to erase the bonds of culture, faith and tradition that make us who we are.

  Donald Trump

  Working Together, Culture, Individual

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Donald Trump understands sense of belonging. And a lot of people think globalization, any time you make any particularity, you're sort of offending some other group. And a lot of people in this country think they belong to America anymore, and he at least appeals to some sense of belonging. I like the idea that we belong to Western traditions, so I'm glad he appeals to that sort of thing.

  David Brooks

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Tibetan, or other historical traditions, are all different streams in the same river, different currents in the same ocean. With the long view, we can trust that the seeds that we're planting are transforming the world.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Ocean, Long, Historical

  Source: eomega.org

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• What is interesting is that John Lewis actually got interested initially in the civil rights movement because of a comic book. So part of it, he's paying homage to this tradition that you can tell serious stories and talk about serious issues in graphic form.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Book, Interesting, Civil Rights

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• For President Donald Trump, questions about transparency start with his taxes, and why he's breaking with tradition and not releasing his returns.

  John Yang

  President, Transparency, Taxes

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• People always think that loyalty is laudable. People are always saying that we must remain faithful to tradition, to family, to our class, to our ideas. Of course not! That would be equivalent to zero brain activity. If you really want to think, to seek truth, to advance intellectually, you must turn your back on clichés, on preconceived ideas - even those belonging to your spiritual family. For an intellectual, his true duty is not to fidelity, but to infidelity.

  Bernard-Henri Levy

  Loyalty, Spiritual, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think parenting is one of the most important jobs, because you can hit two or three generations with the values in your house and the traditions you establish. But I don't think I'm very good at it, and I don't know anybody who thinks they're very good at it. Probably almost everyone gets an A in grandparenting, but in parenting, if you get a B- you're doing pretty good.

  Van Jones

  Thinking, Grandparent, House

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was interested in Armstrong to begin with because he is the most important figure in Jazz in the 20th Century. There's simply no question about it. I mean, if you're going to compare him to somebody, it's Shakespeare in terms of centrality of the tradition, in being at the beginning of it.

  Terry Teachout

  Mean, Important, Jazz

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It's pretty clear in how things are moving in empirically supported treatments that we're going to be speaking to the culture in a different voice. It's going to have some echoes of some of the deeper clinical and spiritual and religious traditions that had wisdom in it. If we're not going to get there through religious means and things of that kind, we're going to have to find a way to put it in the culture in a different way, because we need something right now other than yet another cable shoutcast or yet another Internet Web page showing us the cellulite on the actress's rear end.

  Steven C. Hayes

  Spiritual, Religious, Moving

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Every writer owes something to a particular tradition he/she grew up in. But no serious writer - other than the militantly nationalist ones - would reduce his/her domain of influence to a single tradition. Furthermore, historical breaks are so common and large in Europe that there are ruptures in every tradition which then connect the same generations across national borders. Younger Eastern European writers, for instance, have more in common with other writers of the same age in Europe, than with the previous, communist-era generations in their own countries.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Country, Historical, Age

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Our contexts are foreign. They derive from church tradition that is thousands of years removed from the people who wrote Scripture and the audience to whom those people wrote.

  Michael S. Heiser

  People, Church, Scripture

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I connect with techno way more than house. I find it frustrating people call me a house artist because I think my music in general is more in the tradition of techno. House is celebratory and extroverted. I don't connect with that sentiment.

  Galcher Lustwerk

  Artist, Thinking, People

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• The traditional roots of Scandinavian cuisine are not that spectacular, to say the least. When we write about the traditions that we are inspired by, it's more techniques like smoking, preserving. Many of them are not made to make food delicious; they're just around so that you can make food last through the winter. There isn't a great deal of tradition to tap into.

  Rene Redzepi

  Writing, Winter, Smoking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• First I went to a Jewish school, when I was very little. But when I was 12, they put me in a school with a lot of traditions, and they were educated people and they were talking about Greece and the Parthenon and I don't know what. All the kids, all the girls they had already seen that and knew that from their family, and I would say, "What are you talking about, what's that?" It's not my world. My grandparents were very well-educated people, but in the Jewish tradition. They knew everything about the Bible.

  Chantal Akerman

  Girl, School, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think that one of the things that is happening in the so-called "clash of civilizations" is that the confidence that was once obvious in the Western Judeo-Christian tradition has been weakened tremendously. There's a feeling that there's a cynical, corporate layer that's really driving it - one that's ready to compromise - and that the real confident energy around the world is coming from Islam, that the believers take their own faith at face value and with great confidence and in far greater numbers.

  James Toback

  Real, Thinking, Cynical

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I enjoy playing villains - I'm very proud that I belong to a very honorable tradition of British actors who come to Hollywood to play the bad guys. At some point in American film, I think there was the idea that the British accent had a tone to it that's a little bit naughty.

  Alfred Molina

  Naughty, Thinking, Guy

  "Alfred Molina Talks About Being Ares in Wonder Woman Animated Film". MovieWeb interview, movieweb.com. December 11, 2008.

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• Native people such as the Cherokees are just as human and complex and real as Americans are, and our nation needs to respect American Indian cultures and traditions.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Real, People, Culture

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I love the idea of carrying on some kind of tradition using some of the artifacts from people that touched my life. They're a continuum, too. I still use my father's tools and some of my grandfather's tools. There's a very romantic streak in me. I confess, I'm a romantic, but I like the idea.

  Michael C. McMillen

  People, Kind, Very Romantic

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• All I want to do is realism and follow the tradition of realism. And explore what realism should be now be after the ubiquity of smartphones. I'm trying to answer the question. I don't think I'll ever have the words, but hopefully I'll have a few images.

  Damian Loeb

  Thinking, Trying, Hopefully

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm not an advocate of true rhymes, I don't think. I think that everyone who writes musical theater needs to know how to do true rhymes, because that's the tradition of it, but I do think that in order for the art form to grow, it's important to not let tradition get in the way of innovation. There's all kinds of reasons not to use true rhyme in a lyric, like with off-color humor.

  Robert Lopez

  Art, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Italian style for me is to have a sense of tradition, respect for one's roots, and a sartorial approach.

  Domenico Dolce

  Italian, Style

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In Italy there is a supreme know-how and a desire to achieve that doesn't really exist anywhere else. You can't make clothes like that in America, because it's just not in the tradition.

  Tomas Maier

  Desire, Achieve

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In our society, talking about sex is still a taboo, and of course many village chiefs don't want to hear about that issue. "You are trying to deviate us from our way of life, our traditions." And of course the argument they give is that these traditions date back to before our birth, and actually they accuse us of being funded by the outside world to subvert their way of life.

  Ousmane Sembene

  Giving, Trying, World

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• It's important for me to really play with the traditions and keep things simple and easy. Ultimately I believe in animal instincts - I think they often end up winning out.

  Peter Dundas

  Believe, Animal, Winning

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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