Traditional Quotes · Page 15

Radio has had my back since 'Missin' You Crazy,' which was a very traditional kind of song.

— Jon Pardi

Most of the work I make uses materials that are a bit outside of the traditional fine art world.

— Patricia Piccinini

In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the…

— Tabitha King

Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.

— Jaroslav Pelikan

Maybe I am too traditional, but men feel important when you ask for their help instead of thinking you can do it…

— Miranda Kerr

I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American…

— Ben Harper

What kills comedy is an absence of hard comedy commissions, traditional let's-make-every-line-funny comedy commissions.

— Jamie Demetriou

I grew up dancing salsa - you know, a traditional Puerto Rican dance.

— Gina Rodriguez

Traditional dinosaur theory is full of short circuits. Like the antiquated wiring in an old house, the details sputter and burn out…

— Robert T. Bakker

In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood…

— Taslima Nasrin

I have led the way for moving women from traditional roles to strategic positions and inspired girls and women throughout Africa to…

— Dalia Grybauskaite

The traditional ways to make a film, the traditional ways to share a film, have all collapsed. There are no gatekeepers, per…

— Ava DuVernay

I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and…

— Thomas Szasz

Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'm aware of what skilled journalists they are,…

— Ira Glass

That which works is authentic. It's a practical truth. What really matters is that we find benefit, regardless of whether it's an…

— David F. Swensen

The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named…

— Lydia Davis

Partnerships can be very big. The relationships you cultivate can help. If you put together a business plan that makes sense and…

— Kamerion Wimbley

More directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled and directed society. Such a…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy…

— Robert O. Paxton

When I was in my 20s, I wanted to be tough. I discovered that I didn't want to be the woman I…

— Angeles Mastretta

The problem is not unique; the challenge is not unique to South Africa. Other African countries have faced it. But in our…

— Thabo Mbeki

The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of…

— Joan Robinson

I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I…

— Abigail Washburn

Liberal hostility to the traditional family helped to undermine centuries of accumulated wisdom and experience about what was best for children and…

— Mona Charen

We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.

— Jaclyn Smith

Everybody recommends New Zealand. I really want to learn this haka, the traditional dance - I love it; it's so cool.

— Luka Sulic

We must resist the temptation of once again turning America into the traditional bogeyman of the left.

— Giorgio Napolitano

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it.

— Jane Fonda

I love true love, and I'm a woman who wants to be married for a lifetime. That traditional life is something that…

— Ali Larter

I think the idea of a traditional story being told using traditional animation is likely a thing of the past,

— Jeffrey Katzenberg

If the social conservatives feel that they have a strong argument on traditional marriage, then feel free to have it.

— Andrew Breitbart

Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.

— L'Wren Scott

The greatest danger of traditional education is that learning may remain purely verbal.

— Mirra Komarovsky

We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along.

— Rocco Buttiglione

Technology is the friend of traditional animation. It doesn't have to replace it. It can help you do it.

— Tomm Moore

What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.

— J. William Fulbright

Fuel cell vehicles run on clean-burning hydrogen and are three times more efficient than the traditional combustible engine.

— Albert Wynn

When you hear a good traditional gospel song it makes you wanna go buy a three piece suit

— Pat Boone

I've become increasingly fascinated with social media to improve on traditional ways of preparing for and predicting the future.

— Noreena Hertz

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.

— John Bradshaw