For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition – photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted to make things happen for myself, through feature films. – Mira Nair
When you look at food as an ethical issue in the Christian tradition, you don’t find very much about it. You don’t find, as you do in the Jewish or Islamic or Hindu traditions, a lot of restrictions saying you can eat this but you can’t eat that. – Peter Singer
The role of the architect as artist is an ancient one, but it was de-emphasized with the rise of modernism, which rejected the drawing-based Beaux-Arts tradition in favor of a more technocratic approach. – Martin Filler
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
My education, according to the tradition of the Jesuit school which I attended, had been centered on the ‘ancient humanities’, and I was strongly attracted to the more literary branches. – Christian de Duve
My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were – it’s all the way back. It’s New English puritanical tradition. – Penn Jillette
In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also poets who sang and entertained prince and pauper. – F. Sionil Jose
There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war – nothing material or ideological – no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating. – George Wald
I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive. – Donna Tartt
In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles. – Dennis Banks
The things of Catholic life are never boring because we have such a rich tradition and so many stories to tell. – Donald Wuerl
Many and subtle are the ideological weapons that the State has wielded through the centuries. Once excellent weapon has been tradition. The longer that the rule of a State has been able to preserve itself, the more powerful this weapon; for then, the X Dynasty or the Y State has the seeming weight of centuries of tradition behind it. – Murray Rothbard
Since the founding of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, theoretical physics had nurtured an extremely radical tradition. – David Gross
There is a long tradition in China for writers and journalists to take pen names, partly as protection from retaliation by authorities. If Facebook requires the use of real names, that could potentially put Chinese citizens in danger. – Michael Anti
In the U.K., we have always been an open, trading nation, enriched by our global links. Contemporary patterns of migration extend this tradition. – David Blunkett
In the true sense one’s native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home. – Emma Goldman
Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof. – Nhat Hanh
I think it’s a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles. – Debbie Harry
Darwin’s idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition. – Daniel Dennett
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. – Nicolas Roeg
I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation. – Etgar Keret
Romania doesn’t have a big tradition of gymnastics as a fun activity. We were a little behind in this aspect. – Nadia Comaneci
I tried my best to ensure I kept the respect for the middleweight division in the tradition of Sugar Ray Robinson and Jake La Motta. – Marvin Hagler
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. – Elie Wiesel
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