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I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

I like the tradition of the Oscars. I like that some of the greatest comedians ever have hosted the show.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

I like traditions, and the national anthem is important.

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

I love the idea of carrying on some kind of tradition using some of the artifacts from people that touched my life. They're a continuum, too. I still use my father's tools and some of my grandfather's tools. There's a very romantic streak in me. I confess, I'm a romantic, but I like the idea.

I love the tradition of changing gowns throughout the reception. I know it's a little extravagant, but why not - it's your moment.

I'm a big fan of vampire movies generally and that sort of tradition of characters.

I'm not into division. I'm into coordination, discipline and tradition.

I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

I'm from East Berlin. I grew up in the Bertold Brecht, Kurt Weil tradition, also in the old hippie tradition.

Im not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition.

I'm not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I've always displayed. I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we're very outgoing with our emotions.

[I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist] but that only goes to underline the point I'm trying to make about the need to broaden our account of the tradition!

In a sense the whole American comic tradition had been that of social criticism.

India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.

Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition

In Korean films there is only really a strong tradition of melodramas.

In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.

In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.

In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put yourself in a woman's shoes.

In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the seed syllable that created the world.

In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.

In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.

In that the wisdom of the few becomes available to the many, there is progress in human affairs; without it, the static routine of tradition continues.

In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.

In the twentieth century the Reformed tradition was developed in several ways including additional confessions (Barmen, the Belhar Confession, the 1967 Confession of the PC(USA), and so on). It was also significantly augmented by the work of important thinkers like Karl Barth, T. F. Torrance, Jürgen Moltmann, Emil Brunner, Kathryn Tanner, and so on.

In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn Colvin, Sarah McLachlan....now enter Maia Sharp.

I put up with the music business because I understand that I'm in the tradition, I'm in a tradition that's of far greater importance than the business I seem to be in. Everywhere I go in the world, people ask me about the business that I seem to be in, but I'm not really in that business.

I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know?

I see myself in [the] tradition of encounter and witness - a witness that sees the photograph as evidence.

I sort of hate the novel when it doesn't push, restlessly, against the tradition and the traditional.

I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.

I think Guantanamo, has been synonymous with the staining of American values and American legal tradition.

Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?

I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions.

Italian style for me is to have a sense of tradition, respect for one's roots, and a sartorial approach.

It behooves us unanimously and inviolably to observe the ecclesiastical traditions, whether codified or simply retained by the customary practice of the Church.

It is part of what makes America great. That tradition of the free press, and also the tradition of this highly competitive market for investigative journalism. We're seeing, there's no question, that we're seeing a renaissance of that.

It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love.

It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.

It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down.

It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.

I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.

It is tradition in Ireland that you're given money for your first communion.

It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.

It was the family tradition. I wanted to live up to the name-McNair.

I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition.

I've always admired the tradition of storytellers who sat in the public market and told their stories to gathered crowds. They'd start with a single premise and talk for hours - the notion of one story, ever-changing but never-ending.

I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.