Traditional Quotes - Page 17

• The thing about frontiers, it allows the individuals who are best, whether they're men or women or minorities or whatever, to step to the top. So in traditional societies, old world societies, in the United Kingdom if you would; if you were born into the right stratus, the right class, you had the ability to succeed.

  Peter Diamandis

  Men, Class, Minorities

  "Big Think Interview With Peter Diamandis". Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

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• We did a lot right with the voters with whom we’ve enjoyed traditional support. But we haven’t done enough to build a larger coalition of voters. We have to modernize our message to reach a larger audience of voters beyond our base.

  Kevin Madden

  Support, Done, Voters

  "WTF Did We Just Do, Romney Advisor Kevin Madden?". Interview with Marin Cogan, www.gq.com. November 9, 2012.

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• I think that almost all traditional institutions are sexist, and they're probably racist and homophobic, and they're all of these things. But a lot of them, like marriage, are too embedded into the culture to give up.

  Jessica Valenti

  Giving Up, Thinking, Culture

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Within the United States, there is a real division between the PhDs given in science and math to the Asian community, to the traditional white community, and then to African-Americans and Hispanics.

  Juan Enriquez

  Real, Math, White

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Now, that can be a traditional form or it can be something you're inventing. It can be the development of a metaphor, the working through of a metaphor.

  Edward Hirsch

  Development, Metaphor, Form

  Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• I think I was always informally thinking about choice from when I was a very young child because I was born to Sikh immigrant parents, so I was constantly going back and forth between a Sikh household and an American outside world, so I was going back and forth between a very traditional Sikh home in which you had to follow the Five K's.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Children, Home, Thinking

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I was living, growing up in a very traditional household and yet at the same time I was going to school in the United States where I was taught the importance of personal preference, so at home it was all about learning your duties and responsibilities whereas in school it was all about well you get to decide what you want you want to eat.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Growing Up, Home, School

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• In many ways, I think it's easier in some ways, or it's more entertaining or more guaranteed to be entertaining than traditional improvising. Again, because you're not just you in your body.

  Brian Henson

  Thinking, Body, Way

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self- reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold- hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

  Paula Nelson

  Money, Acceptance, America

  Paula Nelson (1977). “The Joy of Money: The Woman's Guide to Financial Freedom”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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• Traditional methods of sales prospecting are grossly inefficient.

  Jill Konrath

  Marketing, Prospecting, Method

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• Sellers who've embraced social media are creating new opportunities that totally bypass traditional sales channels... It's about good selling - using all the tools that are available to you today.

  Jill Konrath

  Opportunity, Media, Creating

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• Things need to be properly named. Political confusion starts with terminology confusion. Islamism implies some sort of political and social plan for Muslim people. In that classification, we find different categories. Legalist ones, traditional ones and revolutionary ones. Some of them are revolutionary but are non-violent, others are extremely violent. There are also the ones we call the literalists, like the Egyptian party Hizb al-Nour that used to be against democracy and now is getting into the political game.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Party, Games, Confusion

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• What is behind homosexual marriage. It's really more about the destruction of the traditional family than about exalting homosexuality, because you need to destroy also loyalty to the family.

  Rafael Cruz

  Loyalty, Homosexual Marriage, Needs

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• When you hear all these things about homosexual marriage, this has nothing to do with homosexual rights. The whole objective is the destruction of the traditional family. It has nothing to do with homosexuals.

  Rafael Cruz

  Rights, Homosexual Marriage, Destruction

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• If you move furniture all day, if you're a construction worker, if you have a job that's real physical, this idea that there is a sport that involves the kind of conventional, traditional view of toughness, you see that still as a positive thing.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Sports, Jobs, Real

  "Chuck Klosterman: The future will be worse than you think". Interview with Chris Weller, www.businessinsider.com. June 6, 2016.

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• Citizen journalists can attend events traditional journalists are kept from - or have overlooked - or find and highlight the small but evocative story happening right next door. By tapping this resource, news sites can extend their reach and help redefine news gathering in the digital age.

  Arianna Huffington

  Doors, Age, Events

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• My audience is made up of two groups of people. The first group includes people whose roots are deep in the Christian faith, but for whom the traditional symbols, as traditionally understood, no longer make sense. The other audience is the audience that has left. I call them the Church Alumni Association, citizens of the secular city. They are a bit nostalgic about this faith of their childhood, but they aren't really interested in trotting it out or becoming involved with it again as it is presently organized.

  John Shelby Spong

  Christian, Cities, Two

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• It won't suit me anyway if I suddenly do rock or traditional R&B because I grew up as a member of Big Bang, and therefore I'm used to it.

  Seungri

  Rocks, Bangs, Suits

  Source: ygfamilyy.tumblr.com

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• We British play an important role in Europe, even if we have a traditional and historical ambivalence towards the continent.

  Lionel Barber

  Europe, Play, Historical

  "The Consequences Of The Brexit Referendum". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 11, 2016.

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• The traditional models for success are just also disappearing.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Disappear, Models

  Interview with Steven Soderbergh, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.

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• When I first started, I wrote some songs with Linda Perry. She's so instrumental in a lot of artist's lives, listening to you and then helping you write songs that are you, that bring the most of what you are out, whereas a lot of producers might put their stamp on you. I gained confidence because I'm less of a straight-up, traditional vocalist.

  Juliette Lewis

  Song, Writing, Artist

  "The Hard Lovin' Ways of Juliette Lewis". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• France has not been able to come to terms with the fact that it's not a major power anymore. I mean even before the Second World War Paris was one of the main centers of intellectual and cultural life. But now Paris is a kind of subsidiary of Germany, their traditional enemy and they can't come to terms with it.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Mean, Paris

  "Anti-Intellectualism, Terrorism, and Elections in Contemporary Education: a Discussion with Noam Chomsky". Interview with Dan Falcone, www.counterpunch.org. June 3, 2016.

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• My goal for Actress is to have it play more traditional theaters.

  Robert Greene

  Play, Goal, Actresses

  "Performance as Documentary: An Interview with Robert Greene (Web Exclusive)". Interview with Erik Luers, www.cineaste.com.

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• I grew up in the church, with traditional hymns, but at the same time I was beginning to listen to pop music, the mid-60s, The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did. Then the hippy stuff like Pink Floyd started to raise questions about how I lived my life and the world in which I lived.

  Alan Green

  Raises Questions, Hymns, Church

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Donald Trump is a different ball of wax. I've been trying to say for I don't know how many months now that the traditional political playbook in destroying and attacking a political opponent is not gonna work on Trump, because Trump's connection with his supporters or his audience is far deeper and far greater than most voters' connection with a candidate that's very popular. Reagan had the connection.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Political, Trying, Opponents

  "The Old Rules Don’t Apply to Trump". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. June 24, 2016.

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