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" Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming. "
Channing Tatum
" After my mother died, I learned that she'd had a scholarship to the University of Nebraska, but - in kind of a tradition that females don't do things like that - her father prevented her from going. She always said that she wasn't allowed to go to college, but until she died, I never knew that she'd had this scholarship. "
Barry Barish
" Airbnb is dedicated to empowering people and communities through healthy tourism, and we have a long tradition of supporting local projects in Asia-Pacific. "
Nathan Blecharczyk
" A judge must interpret statutes as written. And a judge must interpret the Constitution as written, informed by history and tradition and precedent. "
Brett Kavanaugh
" All art becomes history as soon as it is made, so it is inevitably part of a tradition. It doesn't matter a toss if it is in paint or in film; it is all art. "
Gary Hume
" All experiment is made on a basis of tradition; all tradition is the crystallization of experiment. "
Louis MacNeice
" All the Jewish tradition I had came from my grandmother, who grew up in Palestine and eloped with my grandfather and went to New York. She lived very close to us until she died when I was around 20. She sang a lot of songs, led the Passover seders. It was a very rich part of my life, and my grandmother was a big part of my life. "
Jenny Scheinman
" Almost every venerable tradition at a men's club starts out as a joke. "
Joe Bob Briggs
" Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it. "
Bayard Taylor
" Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why. "
Adele
" Americans, they have an incredible operatic tradition: the Metropolitan Opera House is - if not the most prestigious - one of the most prestigious opera houses in the world for over 100 years. "
Jose Carreras
" Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition. "
Ron Paul
" An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason. "
Jon Meacham
" Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church. "
John Templeton
" Anyone who thinks sports are ruled by athletes need only think of American sports' most enduring tradition: Immediately after a championship, as the champagne sprays and the confetti falls, the trophy is passed not to the team captain but most often to the team owner, handed to him by his highest-ranking employee, the league commissioner. "
Steve Rushin
" Anytime an African-American writes an unconventional novel, the writer gets compared to Ellison. But that's O.K. I am working in the African-American literary tradition. That's my aim and what I see as my mission. "
Colson Whitehead
" A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism. "
Salvatore Quasimodo
" As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education. "
Mark Kennedy
" As an American writer, the literary tradition that I draw on the most is the Anglo-American one, and when you are writing in this tradition, the Orientalizing Western gaze is something you have to constantly push against as well as compromise with. "
Ken Liu
" As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them. "
Hamza Yusuf
" As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration. "
Laura Nyro
" As dutiful bishops soon discover, authoritarianism, or control from the top down, characterizes the hierarchical tradition. "
Eugene Kennedy
" As far as I was concerned, it was the absence of women in the poetic tradition which allowed women in the poems to be simplified. The voice of a woman poet would, I was sure, have precluded such distortion. It did not exist. "
Eavan Boland
" As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. "
Allan Bloom
" As tradition, the female element clings to the old art and opposes anything new - precisely because each new art moves further away from the natural appearance of things. "
Piet Mondrian
" At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. "
Maurice Maeterlinck
" At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it. "
Adolf Loos
" At the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, we have long had a tradition of close cooperation between physicists and technicians. "
Luis Walter Alvarez
" 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
" Baseball is a game of tradition. It lives, in large measure, on its past. "
Thomas Hauser
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