Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.
I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.
I noticed that people were craving a way of reinterpreting tradition and of being Jewish without joining a synagogue.
At the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, we have long had a tradition of close cooperation between physicists and technicians.
Tennessee is a program that I thought had a lot of tradition. A program that I thought stood for something.
The textile industry became a huge deal in 19th century America, kind of like the tech industry is today. And that immigrant tradition continues, especially in tech, America's most dominant and dynamic industry today.
Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition.
I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making.
Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.
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.
In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships.
I'm a big fan of vampire movies generally and that sort of tradition of characters.
Almost every venerable tradition at a men's club starts out as a joke.
In Holland we have always viewed Villa as an important club with a tradition of being powerful in Europe when I was younger, so I would be very interested in managing them if the job was offered to me.
There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.
Seven Words' is a wanderer's tale, a well-worn subgenre in the tradition of farewell songs. The tune itself is trying to evoke the familiar act of leaving somebody in order to save them, or continue seeking.
When I was little, my dad told me about Anandpur Sahib and the court of Guru Gobind Singh. That we came from a tradition of poets, warriors and artists who created when it was illegal to create... we're groomed to be reckless in the defense of what we feel is right.
Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that.
My grandparents were very well-educated people, but in the Jewish tradition. They knew everything about the Bible. And then they had to come to Brussels, to run away from Poland, because there was too much anti-Semitism. They lost everything they had.
