- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tradition Quotes
What we carry forward, and why it matters.
Tradition here is personal and inherited - a performer noting South India's deep arts culture, and a Sikh explaining the religious tradition of never cutting one's hair. Related reading: Family.
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- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, theater will always be very, very much alive, but not necessarily in the theatrical tradition.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not an advocate of true rhymes, I don't think. I think that everyone who writes musical theater needs to know how to do true rhymes, because that's the tradition of it, but I do think that in order for the art form to grow, it's important to not let tradition get in the way of innovation.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my greatest inspirations for stand-up was Jonathan Winters. He was a genius. One thing about him, and also Lenny Bruce, is that they were in the tradition of the one-man show. That's why Richard Pryor was so great, and George Carlin, too. They prowled the stage, they used voices, they were really talents.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.
- Attending
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an enormous tangible weight of expectation, which comes from an audience attending a King Crimson concert.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The R K banner has had this tradition to make good films, and good films always take a lot of time to complete because of the hassles involved.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I'm called a bigot.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Britain has had a very honourable tradition of literary sci-fi - H. G. Wells, John Wyndham, J. G. Ballard, Brian Aldiss, Michael Moorcock - but for whatever reason, they have never really been given the time of day on screen.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The tradition of Chicago price theory is a good one, and it is a low-tech methodology that tries to apply simple economic theory to the world.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can count on one hand the number of Novus Ordo churches in this country that feature a fully Catholic music program of any quality, consistent with the Roman rite tradition.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.
- Minority
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- Nov 07, 2020
For decades, Saddam and his Sunni minority had imposed their will on Iraq, carrying on a 14-century tradition of Sunnis controlling Mesopotamia despite a Shiite majority.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020