Traditional Quotes · Page 16

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

Non-Newtonian calculi... have considerable potential as alternative approaches to traditional problems.

— Ivor Grattan-Guinness

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

I want to experiment with new techniques and become a "traditional baroque artist."

— Camille Henrot

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

— Jane Fonda

Donald Trump may undermine some of the traditional checks on the presidency: the press in particular, but also the various government and…

— Anne Applebaum

The wrap dress is the most traditional form of dressing: It's like a robe, it's like a kimono, it's like a toga.…

— Diane von Furstenberg

Audiences looking for a rich, textured, cinematic experience will be put off and disconcerted by an image that looks more like an…

— Kenneth Turan

We have these traditional political parties that are less and less responsive to the needs of ordinary people, so people are in…

— Edward Snowden

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

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

Audrey Auld is a great singer songwriter. She holds a unique place in contemporary Americana/Roots music. I believe that this uniqueness is…

— Fred Eaglesmith

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

The life of a true, traditional stand-up is really unappealing for women.

— Ali Wong

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

The military tends to be a traditional place. Traditional culture, traditional men are often attracted to serving in the military.

— Tanya Biank

Online crime is practically always international, because they almost always cross traditional national borders.

— Mikko Hypponen

I consider myself a patriot, but not for the traditional reasons. I'm just really passionate about apple pie.

— Dov Davidoff