We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
My great-grandmother, who was known as Nana, passed away before I was born, but she and my mother were very, very close.… — Busy Philipps Copy Share Image
The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I prefer a positive view of freedom, drawing on another tradition of political thinking that goes all the way back to the… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the only society in human history in which neither tradition nor conscious direction supervises the total effort of the community;… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
Native people such as the Cherokees are just as human and complex and real as Americans are, and our nation needs to… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
The value for me being in a mainline tradition is history and memory, which is not just Christian tradition but denominational tradition,… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
The American tradition of foreign policy exceptionalism, our grand strategy as a nation, reaches back much further. Really at the turn -… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
The function of traditional history is to create a citizenry that looks to the top - the president, Congress, the Supreme Court… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Neither an enlightened philosophy, nor all the political wisdom of Rome, nor even the faith and virtue of the Christians availed against… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a dream. Still,… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Never, in all my early childhood, did anyone address to me the affecting preamble: 'Once upon a time!' ... I can but… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
I have a little tradition that humbles me as a man that lets me know I'm a part of the field and… — Les Miles Copy Share Image
'Knowing' is one of those movies where you're going to get the spectacle, and you're going to have the entertainment in the… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
he very word "patient" implies passivity and powerlessness. Me-teacher-you-dumbbell, or me-doctor-you-patient, or me-politician-you-voter, or any other paternalistic or maternalistic stay-in-your-place tradition will… — Andrew Saul Copy Share Image
We can't really waste our time; we have to see that we are all in the same boat and that different religious… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition - photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I am very aware that I'm the product of growing up in England and the tradition of designing and making, of England… — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about… — Fred Melamed Copy Share Image
There's a very old tradition of theater actors doing their own makeup. It's like putting on your mask. There's an element of… — Phillipa Soo Copy Share Image
Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
We have a great literary tradition in Australia. I think the book is very much alive and the more people who are… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
Can currently existing religion be disentangled from the misogyny of its texts, its traditions, and its practices? ... a resounding NO: misogyny… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Some of our earliest codes of ethics in the so-called Western World are little more than a rewriting of the Ten Commandments.… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I think that Hillary Clinton has an appreciation that American power needs to be put in the service of American values, which… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
And when you are entering into poetry, whatever stage you're at, you are participating in something with a very long and noble… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
In the tradition of Black Hawk Down, Malcolm MacPherson vividly brings to life this harrowing story of courage, pathos, and war at… — Jay Winik Copy Share Image
Yoga's most sublime objective is to awaken an exalted state of spiritual realization; however, the tradition also recognizes that this state does… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of… — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
In a clown, we see what we do that makes us laugh and cry. I kept the white face, the tradition of… — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
In a country built on the dreams and accomplishments of an immigrant population, a particularly severe wound is inflicted on that principle… — Maryanne Trump Barry Copy Share Image
Golfers should not fail to realize that it is a game of great traditions, of high ideals of sportsmanship, one in which… — Francis Ouimet Copy Share Image
[Shirat ha-Yam ] is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, pieces of Biblical literature that we possess. It is much… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
You know, there is a long tradition in the U.S. of, um, promoting elections up to the point that you get an… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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