#tradition

I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules. ↗

— Vera Wang

#break #came #even #give #go

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. ↗

— Andy Warhol

#america #buy #consumers #country #essentially

The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that is most apparent. I have seen how, through sport, cities and corporations compete against each other for financial gain. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#ancient #apparent #aspect #athletics #cities

I am definitely a storyteller, but probably not a traditional Storyteller. ↗

— James Welch

#definitely #i #i am #probably #storyteller

The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions. ↗

— James Welch

#college #community #community college #doing #each

I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great music, pop or whatever, that radio will embrace. ↗

— Bryan White

#country #embrace #end #great #great music

An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as American as I think, but it feels so Southern. It feels so American. Like, hundreds of years of American tradition is involved in it. ↗

— Jack White

#american tradition #feels #head #hundreds #i

Still others want a traditional guitar sound if they call you for guitar. ↗

— Mark White

#guitar #others #sound #still #traditional

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#consists #european #footnotes #general #philosophical

Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#age #ageing #anxiety #communicates #culture