Traditional Quotes · Page 9

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

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

Looking towards the future, one of the most important issues the national community must face is the widening gap between the liberated,…

— Kamla Persad-Bissessar

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that…

— Pierre Schaeffer

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's…

— Robert M. Pirsig

It's not the traditional promise ring. It's basically to always stay truthful. I think that's a really important part of a relationship,…

— Bella Thorne

Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course. Piracy, for example, is a tradition that has been…

— Anonymous

We must get away from the traditional idea that the saints in Heaven have one eternal holiday; that they have nothing to…

— Herbert Lockyer

What type of 'person' is the for-profit corporation? A spoiled brat - all rights and no responsibilities, a traditional conservative argument would…

— Timothy Noah

I grew up in Northern California on the peninsula. It was a beautiful house, but it was very traditional. It wasn't midcentury…

— Eric Dane

Would the potential attraction to Mormonism by simply having a Mormon in the White House threaten traditional Christianity by leading more Americans…

— Rick Santorum

Economic theorists, like French chefs in regard to food, have developed stylized models whose ingredients are limited by some unwritten rules. Just…

— George Akerlof

Traditional society was more like a set of concentric circles of meaningful structures, while modern man must learn how to find meaning…

— Ivan Illich

Right now, we say in a traditional home one parent stays home with the children and the other provides the financial support…

— Sharron Angle

I was deliberately trying to express how possible it might be for unmarried men and adults not blessed with biological children to…

— Mamoru Hosoda

Although the traditional focus of Valentine's Day is on women and the gifts they desire, this survey found that not only do…

— Christopher Parsons

The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. The surest way to end them…

— A.J. Ayer

Broadly speaking, the Southern and Western desert and mountain states will vote for the candidate who endorses an aggressive military, a role…

— Steven Pinker

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

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

I try to keep in mind that just because something might be traditional and it's always been done doesn't mean it's always…

— Jimmie Allen

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

Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.

— Alice Miller

Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.

— Jonathan Stroud

Essentially a joke is creating an idea, whether sonic or visual, whether it's something musical or a traditional joke.

— Reggie Watts

In the traditional Ikebana things always have to be asymmetrical, because in this they look more natural and balanced.

— Camille Henrot

I think some people form the traditional DJ worlds misunderstand where I'm coming form.

— Girl Talk

I think traditional is trying to go more digital and digital is trying to go more traditional. We're meeting in the middle.

— Tyler Oakley

I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years.

— Nobuo Uematsu

While growing up, I lived in a traditional joint family in Mumbai's suburbs.

— Nita Ambani

The strength of 'Peep Show' has always been that that it's quite traditional, but it's obviously presented in a very new way.

— Robert Webb