[Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
It is true that the Muslim world is not totally mistaken when it reproaches the West of Christian tradition of moral decadence… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I've always said that the Europeans subconsciously knew how to pose because of the culture or tradition of having your portrait made.… — Tina Barney Copy Share Image
Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned…That is… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“Not everyone believed in marriage then. To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too -… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“It’s an old Camorri tradition for when a bunch of people are planning something stupid,” said Locke. “Actually, we have a lot… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It is actually a nice question how far Descartes himself endorses the monological and metaphysically dualistic theory of mind associated with his… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
One moment it's a cathedral, at another time there is no words to describe it when it ceases, for short periods of… — John Diefenbaker Copy Share Image
When you ban people from predominantly Muslim countries from coming into the U.S., even people who accompanied our soldiers and helped them… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Any narrative, whether it's fiction or not, you have to approach it as though it really happened to you. I think that's… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
In order to understand the history of the banjo, and the history of bluegrass music, we need to move beyond the narrative… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
Tolerance has been a very important feature of Christianity from its very roots, despite all the other things that have gone on… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
In the tradition of the classic songwriter rooms like The Bluebird in Nashville, Strange Brew is a gift to the music community… — Christopher Cross Copy Share Image
The prosperity and advancement of a nation depend upon its intelligentsia, and Muslim India is looking forward to her young generation and… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment. — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
We can drift along with general opinion and tradition, or we can throw ourselves upon the guidance of the soul within and… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
'The Price Is Right,' it was an honor to be offered it because it's such an American institution. To be able to… — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
The United Nations is useless...and also harmful. It is a land that flowers demagoguery with a bunch of newborn countries, devoid of… — Antonio de Oliveira Salazar Copy Share Image
North Korea is a very Confucius country. We respect the elders, the hierarchy. It's not like America where anyone can step up… — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time,… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is a tradition in Southern cooking of recipes handed down for generations. And when I make my grandmother's strawberry pie I… — Kimberly Schlapman Copy Share Image
Muslims have their own traditions. The important point to bear in mind is that the whole Muslim tradition is totally and unequivocally… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
We have a rich tradition here in the United States of great decathletes, which is amazing 'cause we have absolutely no program… — Caitlyn Jenner Copy Share Image
The tradition of Chicago price theory is a good one, and it is a low-tech methodology that tries to apply simple economic… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
[Greek] Theater started off and used masks and Kabuki, in the East, they used mask-work. And then, Commedia dell'arte in Italy and… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
[Bob] Dylan thus deserves the Nobel Prize, not just for "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," as the Nobel… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
I have enormous respect for Derek Parfit, although he seems to me bound within an unfortunate philosophical tradition - rather like the… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I think the editorial page of the Washington Post is the best in the country. I think the editorials - considering it's… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Comcast began their tradition of volunteer service in 1997 when Comcast employees and their families participated in the Philadelphia Cares Day. — Jim Gerlach Copy Share Image
Washington State has a strong tradition of a positive relationship - positive working relationship between labor and management, whether in the private… — Rob McKenna Copy Share Image
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… — Tomas Maier Copy Share Image
For decades, Saddam and his Sunni minority had imposed their will on Iraq, carrying on a 14-century tradition of Sunnis controlling Mesopotamia… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image