Traditional Quotes - Page 27

• I don't need a vacation in the traditional sense, like I would if I had a job I hated.

  James Franco

  Jobs, Vacation, Needs

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• The wrap dress is the most traditional form of dressing: It's like a robe, it's like a kimono, it's like a toga. It doesn't have buttons or zippers. What made it different was that it was jersey; therefore, it was close to the body and it was a print.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Zippers, Buttons, Dresses

  "Diane von Furstenberg On Wrap Dresses And The Joys Of Aging Gracefully". Interview with Amanda Christine Miller, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine.

  Kenny G

  Song, Offended You, Play

  "Kenny G is 55: A “Chirpy” Interview From 2002". Interview with Ted Panken, tedpanken.wordpress.com. 2002.

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• I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you're having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional - old Frank Sinatra and things like that.

  Ina Garten

  Dinner, Drink, Upbeat

  "Thanksgiving With Ina Garten". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. October 11, 2011.

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• No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Thinking, Land, Cities

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• I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.

  William Gibson

  Ideas, People, Nationalism

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• The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry in which we cut down trees to make the paper that we then use enormous amounts of electricity to turn into books that weigh a great deal and are then shipped enormous distances to point-of-sale retail.

  William Gibson

  Distance, Book, Cutting

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• Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Kind, Scottish, Instinct

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• Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers go beyond their traditional mission and that people in the community become more involved with schools as both active participants in children's learning and as individual mentors.

  Daniel Goleman

  Teacher, Children, School

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• Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

  Brian Greene

  Science, Avant Garde, Mathematics

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• The nice thing about 'Futurama' for me personally was that it was a way to honor some of the traditional ideas in literary science fiction, not so much movie or television science fiction - although we have that too, obviously. Our situation, a workplace comedy, led to all sorts of stuff.

  Matt Groening

  Nice, Ideas, Honor

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, tv.avclub.com. March 25, 2009.

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• Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.

  Stanislav Grof

  Animal, Thinking, Cells

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• My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house.

  Tom Hanks

  Christmas, House, Watches

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I was 21 years old, I had a job playing Santa Claus in a shopping centre in Sacramento. I was rail thin, so it's not like I was a traditional Santa Claus even then. I had a square stomach; that was the shape of the sofa cushion that I had stuffed into my pants.

  Tom Hanks

  Jobs, Years, Shopping

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• I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

  Ben Harper

  Boys, California, Kind

  "Give Till It’s Gone: A Conversation with Ben Harper". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2011.

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• I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.

  Stephen Harper

  Believe, Law, Unions

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• I don't think I have the assets to play the more traditional Bond Girl.

  Naomie Harris

  Girl, Thinking, Play

  Interview with Tom Hawker, uk.askmen.com.

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• It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was.

  Paris Hilton

  Money, Thinking, Way

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• Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Thinking, Mind

  "Damien Hirst: 'Art is childish and childlike'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2010.

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• Traditional values are big in my life.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Bigs, Traditional Values, Values

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• I'm a big romantic, traditional, cheesy guy.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Guy, Cheesy, Bigs

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• Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes - and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that more and more children are learning together, just not in a traditional classroom.

  Ernest Istook

  Children, Home, Mean

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• Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.

  Ernest Istook

  America, Activism, Judicial

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• Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.

  Bianca Jagger

  Latin, America, Rights

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• That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Dance, Sports, Cousin

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