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  • There is not enough self-consciousness about what a family can be, about what it can inherit from forbearers, and what new traditions it can start as a contributor to the community. -- Ralph Nader
  • There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City. -- Steve Earle
  • We must honor our country's tradition of openness and continue to welcome new immigrants. -- Jose Serrano
  • When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance. -- Steven Strogatz
  • Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability. -- Hans Bender
  • My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition. -- Penn Jillette
  • In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one. -- Sxip Shirey
  • For nearly 2,000 years, most people assumed that the only sources of tradition about Jesus and his disciples were the four gospels in the New Testament. -- Elaine Pagels
  • Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new ones. -- Azar Nafisi
  • I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones. -- Kathleen Turner
  • What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing their attraction. -- Jean-Francois Lyotard
  • One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them. -- Albert Bushnell Hart
  • We began building this incredible new foundation in this restaurant, and that's what began giving me the left-hand side of tradition and the right-hand side, my new palate. -- Emeril Lagasse
  • I love New York. I love to come here, to play here, the tradition here. I'll never forget my first home run here was over Mickey Mantle's head. -- Tony Oliva
  • 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
  • We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art. -- Andy Warhol
  • In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition. -- Ralph Adams Cram
  • I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself. -- Diane Wakoski
  • Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food; I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist. -- Masaharu Morimoto
  • 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. -- Sam Trammell
  • One of the many reasons I love living in New York is that we get a front row seat to the innumerable thrills that take place here - from conventions and awards shows, to parades and U.N. assemblies. But my favorite New York tradition is the annual New Year's Eve ball-drop on Times Square. -- Marlo Thomas
  • Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members. -- Mary Catherine Bateson
  • As an innovator, you need to be aware of how traditions, habits and bias can act as barriers to accepting new ideas. -- Max McKeown
  • I find it inspiring to actively choose which traditions to celebrate and also come up with new ideas for traditions of my own. -- Sara Sheridan
  • The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings. -- George W. Bush
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