Tradition Quotes

• The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Objective
  • Ignoramuses
  • woozy

• Being and working in America, it's very important to work hard, work smart and work in a certain way. France and Europe has, with the tradition and culture, it's slow-moving and it's not always good.

  

  Mireille Guiliano
  • Important
  • Culture
  • Moving

• I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Theater
  • Tradition
  • Truthful

• American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • American
  • Borders

• No matter what the legislature may say, a man has the right to make his speech, print his handbill, compose his newspaper, and deliver his sermon without asking anyone's permission. The contrary suggestion is abhorrent to our traditions.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Men
  • Asking
  • Print

• The quilt format is highly appropriate for repetition and serialization. Formal issues of balance and color, space and light in landscape are endlessly engaging. I try to use the medium to its maximum, pushing well beyond tradition.

  

  Elizabeth Barton
  • Light
  • Space
  • Balance

• India has a very good tradition in tennis.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Tennis
  • Tradition

• People always think that loyalty is laudable. People are always saying that we must remain faithful to tradition, to family, to our class, to our ideas. Of course not! That would be equivalent to zero brain activity. If you really want to think, to seek truth, to advance intellectually, you must turn your back on clichés, on preconceived ideas - even those belonging to your spiritual family. For an intellectual, his true duty is not to fidelity, but to infidelity.

  

  Bernard-Henri Levy
  • Truth
  • Loyalty
  • Brain Activity

• The question of art songs always came up with Gastr del Sol. I think Jim O'Rourke had it right in being clear that there's a tradition of art song - Ives being the touchstone for the two of us - and what we do doesn't belong to it. It wasn't important to advance those kinds of distinctions, but clearly he thought it was fanciful for anyone to speak of what we were doing as being in that tradition.

  

  David Grubbs
  • Important
  • Question
  • Clear

• There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Home
  • Woman
  • Tradition

• The Western front is the important one in this war - the intersection between Islam and a liberal democratic tradition so mired in self-loathing it would rather destroy our civilization just to demonstrate its multicultural bona fides.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Important
  • War
  • Islam

• An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time.

  

  Ed Parker
  • Time
  • Logic
  • Obsolete

• I was part of the sort of avant guard tradition of John Cage and music concrete and pushing back the boundaries of avant garde classic pop rhythms. I think everyone brings something completely different to it.

  

  Anne Jennifer Dudley Art of Noise
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Boundaries

• I adore tradition. I cannot stand habit. Simply to repeat is nothing, also to destroy is nothing. Tradition is never interrupted, we are always evolving but never interrupted.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Habit
  • Tradition
  • Adore

• Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Fashion
  • Doing
  • Ballet

• Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass - the slave narrative - speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying 'I,' meaning 'we.'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Tradition
  • Slave
  • Autobiography

• Language is in the way. Music's in the way. Songs are in the way. Stuff's in the way. That's just our state here. And to acknowledge that we're broken and to even ... create tradition that helps us embrace that, and to understand that, I think is a very healthy, good thing.

  

  David Wallace Crowder
  • Way
  • Tradition
  • State

• In keeping with Miramax tradition, I was instructed to find the 'hottest young stars around' to cast in the movie. I got a list of two names: Michelle Monaghan and Casey Affleck. I was lucky enough to get them both.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Movie
  • Miramax
  • Michelle Monaghan

• Oasis were the last great, traditional rock 'n' roll band. We came along before the Internet so, if you wanted to see us, you had to be there. It makes me feel like a righteous old man.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Great
  • Band
  • Rock

• While there are so many beautiful Baroque churches and it's a beautiful artistic tradition, it almost gets hideous and grotesque if you push it further. You can take something beautiful and overdo it.

  

  Edwin Farnham Butler III Arcade Fire
  • Beautiful
  • Church
  • Artistic

• There is no such thing as a stationary tradition. Traditions are always developing, living things.

  

  Oliver D. Crisp
  • Tradition
  • Stationary
  • Living Things

• It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Hard
  • Tradition
  • Ideology

• Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Death
  • Speak
  • Tradition

• One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Music
  • Christmas
  • Tradition

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