Traditional Quotes · Page 9

The Republicans have a very traditional focus over and over again whether or not it's worked.

— Debbie Stabenow

I am a sucker for those old traditional places, and Rome is as good as it gets, particularly when you throw in…

— Roger Federer

I have always been very tech-focused, which you may almost say is the traditional CEO in Silicon Valley.

— Michael Birch

A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music.

— Archie Shepp

Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.

— Gabe Newell

Saddam is a familiar dictatorial aggressor, with traditional goals for his aggression.

— Brent Scowcroft

We are not a boy band in the traditional sense. We don't dance or have synchronized moves. We are a pop-rock band.

— Kevin Jonas

If you look at the Internet, it's been hard for a lot of the traditional media companies to launch viable brands.

— Tom Freston

I really wanted to focus on my songwriting, or songwriting with other people. I wanted to go learn from other people who…

— Mikky Ekko

Begbie offers an additional valuable contribution by rejecting the traditional emphasis on beauty, in its Platonic sense, and instead suggesting that beauty…

— John Walford

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

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

— Thomas Szasz

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 believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed,…

— Martin Seligman

In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen…

— Jane Smiley

Traditional publishers will be dominant, and they should be because they really do assure quality. But eBooks, which are huge already, are…

— Steven Pressfield

The flamingoes are the most delicately colored of all the African birds, pink and red like a flying twig of an oleander…

— Isak Dinesen

Many Christians were suddenly prepared to look at traditional methods of spiritual formation. They could not help but see that spiritual growth…

— Dallas Willard

Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren't traditional comics buyers I don't think the comic industry…

— Jhonen Vasquez

What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell…

— Felicia Day

It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer…

— Vaclav Havel

To me India is a land of beauty and generosity, of traditional hospitality and the acceptance of many cultures.

— Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.

— Stuart Chase

I'm the only one in my family - I'm a practicing Jew - who has attached themselves to religion in a more…

— Jessica Hecht

Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.

— Asghar Farhadi

It's important that we have the traditional operas and the repertory, but we should also have something new.

— Robert Wilson

If you have small-government, traditional values, you may be considered by your own leadership to be an enemy of the state.

— Monica Crowley

As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.

— Paul McCartney

We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax.

— Frank Chodorov

My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and RB.

— John Oates

Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married.

— Gloria Steinem

I think it's fair to say that the age of traditional computing is dead.

— Lisa Su

People expect me to live in a picture-perfect Pottery Barn kind of place, but I don't like anything traditional.

— Meghan McCain

I'm not against the technology at all, I just don't like to use it if it's just to mimic what you can…

— Michel Gondry

I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.

— Jimmy Wales

While traditional BI is interested in the 'what and the where,' data scientists are interested in the 'how and why'.

— Amit Priyavadan Mehta

The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.

— Ethan Zuckerman