Traditional Quotes - Page 5

• It's really important to have life strategies and part of that is sort of knowing where you want to go so you can have a map that helps you to get there. And the traditional way tells us oh we get into school and someone else advises us, helps us, but that often does not work for African Americans female and male. Because what works for the dominant culture often does not work for us.

  Bell Hooks

  School, Knowing, African American

  Interview with Pierce Freelon, blackademics.org. October, 2006.

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• The more people, as you know, are able to be on whatever spectrum of femininity and masculinity they are on at that moment, that opens the door for women to not have to be the opposite of what the supposed traditional male is.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Doors, Opposites, People

  Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.

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• My problem with the traditional acting method was that I never understood what you were supposed to be thinking about when you're onstage.

  Tina Fey

  Thinking, Acting, Problem

  The BELIEVER Magazine Interview, www.believermag.com. November, 2003.

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• We tend to think that, in a traditional organisation, people are producing results because management wants results, but the essence of a high-quality organisation is people producing results because they want the results. It's puzzling we find that hard to understand, that if people are really enjoying, they'll innovate, they'll take risks, they'll have trust with one another because they are really committed to what they're doing and it's fun

  Peter Senge

  Fun, Thinking, Essence

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• Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Ghost Stories, Nasty, Protagonists

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• I don't want to participate in traditional Indian religious ceremonies - dance in a sun dance or pray in a sweat lodge or go on a vision quest with the help of a medicine man. The power of these ceremonies has an appeal, but I'm content with what little religion I already have.

  Ian Frazier

  Religious, Men, Medicine

  Ian Frazier (2000). “On the Rez”, p.4, Macmillan

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• Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community.

  Noah Feldman

  Memories, Self, Practice

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• What has impressed me the most about the Italians whose tables we've sat at is that they are traditional cooks but also outrageously innovative. These people are wild improvisers.

  Frances Mayes

  People, Tables, Innovative

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• Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And that uniqueness of being human, language, art, culture, our dependency on culture for survival, comes from the combination of traditional biological evolution.

  Donald Johanson

  Art, Unique, Animal

  "How Will Humans Evolve?". bigthink.com. 2017.

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• The more traditional bride still prefers white or ivory, but the young girls... seem to like the idea of using colors.

  Reem Acra

  Girl, Ideas, Ivory

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• Feminism has nothing at all to do with being 'feminine.' Feminine means accentuating the womanly attributes that make women deliciously different from men. The feminine woman enjoys her right to be a woman. She has a positive outlook on life. She knows she is a person with her own identity and that she can seek fulfillment in the career of her choice, including that of traditional wife and mother.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Mother, Mean, Men

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• Whether religious or racial, anti-Semitism is always repugnant, one of the most destructive manifestations of human stupidity and evil. What is profoundly expressed in it is man's traditional mistrust of the man who is not part of his tribe, that 'other' who speaks a different language, whose skin is a different color, and who participates in mysterious rites and rituals.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Religious, Men, Color

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• Many psychopaths describe the traditional treatment programmes as finishing schools where they hone their skills. Where they find out that there are lots of techniques they had not thought about before.

  Robert D. Hare

  School, Skills, Technique

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• Audiences looking for a rich, textured, cinematic experience will be put off and disconcerted by an image that looks more like an advanced version of high definition television than a traditional movie.

  Kenneth Turan

  Looks, Television, Definitions

  "Review: 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey' lacks a certain ring" by Kenneth Turan, articles.latimes.com. December 12, 2012.

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• First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.

  Pierre Schaeffer

  Firsts, Musician, Looks

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• Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.

  Jackson Katz

  Father, War, Mean

  "Fathers, Sons and Guns : An Interview With USC Sociologist and Author Michael Messner". Interview with Jackson Katz, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2011.

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• My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.

  Jonathan Hickman

  Book, Goal, Design

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• Traditional doctors say I'm a mystic. I don't deny it.

  Bernie Siegel

  Doctors, Deny, Mystic

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• I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction; I also teach all kinds of not-so-traditional fiction.

  Heidi Julavits

  Fiction, Kind, Adore

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• My dad never decided what he wanted to do; at times he fought in the army, was a teacher, a boxer, a light engineer, and a then a publican. My mum was a traditional housewife and mother. They showed my brother and I unconditional love.

  Anthony Browne

  Mother, Teacher, Brother

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• I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories.

  Ted Naifeh

  Roots, Feelings, Monsters

  "Ted Naifeh Talks Courtney Crumrin & the Prince of Nowhere". Interview with Lan Pitts, www.newsarama.com. October 23, 2008.

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• I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives, it's part of our culture we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music.

  Karan Johar

  Song, Religious, Sleep

  "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, edition.cnn.com. March 29, 2007.

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• My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didnt talk about money around the dinner table.

  Bo Sanchez

  Parent, Tables, Dinner

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• I think if there's any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it's that I've been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what's expected.

  Andrew Mason

  Thinking, Differences, Personality

  "The real deal with Groupon". "60 minutes: Groupon" with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. January 15, 2012.

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• For an author to show that only traditional male power and place matter is to discount and belittle the hard and complex lives of our peers and our ancestresses.

  Sarah Zettel

  Males, Peers, Matter

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