With my dad coming from a theatre tradition, there was a lot of preparation before auditions. Not just in terms of saying… — Haley Joel Osment Copy Share Image
It was a tradition to represent a dancer frozen in a chosen position, like a snapshot. I broke away from this tradition… — Sonia Delaunay Copy Share Image
When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The linguistic and literary reality of the biblical tradition is folkloristic in essence. The concept of a benei Israel ... is a… — Thomas L. Thompson Copy Share Image
A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends." ~ (1925-… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The thing about the Islamic situation is we don't have a church. We don't have an ordained priesthood, which makes it a… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
The critical question is how a religious tradition is interpreted. Is it interpreted in ways that are pro-human rights or in ways… — Khaled Abou El Fadl Copy Share Image
Julie Taymor. She is my gold standard of stage directors. I think she has a comprehensive knowledge of theatrical form, since she… — Harry Lennix 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
The earliest religious texts in the West ascribe to humankind both a prehistory and a destiny among the gods. M. David Litwa… — Terryl L. Givens Copy Share Image
I find when most people are honest about their spiritual pilgrimage, they admit to the difficulty of maintaining the habit of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some of my educated Filipino friends were aspiring poets, but their aspirations were all in the direction of the United States. They… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
We have a huge institution that celebrates the undistinguished, an institution which is nearly as old as the Papists. It's been going… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
We come from a proud tradition of people who have insisted that none of us can be truly successful until at least… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me. I don't feel it… — Jamie Lidell Copy Share Image
As for the status of Western Christianity, we are in a place where our task is to redefine the primary symbols of… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
We must learn not to take traditional morals too seriously. And it is just because even the least dogmatic of religions tends… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
I have a tradition of working with actors, over and over again. I've worked with Jason Bateman, over and over again. You… — Peter Berg Copy Share Image
You think about, like, [20th-century classical composers] Alban Berg, Schoenberg, and Webern sitting around in some living room in Vienna and being… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
The rise of community among cultures and religious traditions makes possible what we can call 'interspirituality': the assimilation of insights, values, and… — Wayne Teasdale Copy Share Image
I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I call myself a singer-songwriter influenced by the gospel and jazz tradition. Naturally, because of my lifestyle and love for nature, there's… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
Tightly embracing guitar effects and tape loops, Mission of Burma made sound an important commodity in rock 'n' roll, and its members… — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create… — Michael Tippett Copy Share Image
Save a life this Thanksgiving, and join me in starting a new tradition by adopting a turkey instead of eating one through… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Since Reagan there has been this tradition, which has become a cliche, of promising morning in America, this fake optimism, we're the… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
I want to do performance that inspires people to be true to themselves and has tangible impact on the community. Not just… — Sasha Velour Copy Share Image
Buddhism is a heresy on Hinduism. It was Hinduism that did the dirty work for Buddhism, by the time Buddha came along… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Tradition is not just a word. It's who you are, where you came from and where you will always belong. Never take… — Wahab Oriyomi Osuolale Copy Share Image
I've always used the technique of the cuento. I am an oral storyteller, but now I do it on the printed page.… — Rudolfo Anaya Copy Share Image
We need more math classes, we need more science. It's the art of math and the art of science that creates all… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I really like mugwort. It's a witch plant and a purifier of energy. It's considered to be very important and powerful in… — Kerli Copy Share Image
In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
The Masters is one of golf's greatest traditions and Augusta is one of the best courses in the world. They are synonymous.… — Mike Weir Copy Share Image
Everything in my life boils down to my mother. A tradition, which a lot of people do not know of, is that… — Sonu Nigam Copy Share Image
Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,--means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Simply to render oneself able to understand what other Christian thinkers have themselves come to understand and to more or less felicitously… — Gregory B. Sadler Copy Share Image
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