The meditation traditions I started and have continued practicing have all emphasized inclusivity: anyone can do this who is interested.
It's undeniable that what we are taught as a culture to believe about disability is at odds with traditional notions of masculinity.
I think there's a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood.
I have been skeptical and not trusting of traditional models of the entertainment industry. I never got a manager.
Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.
The traditions of a nation are very important and the anthem written by Francis Scott Key in the early days of our nation should always be revered.
The sitcom's traditional role has been to comfort the viewer who feels burdened by the unreality of American expectations.
My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
I just like traditional songs that come from an honest place, and they make you feel something and tell a story and they flow right.
The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it's hardly a traditional political party anymore.
Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use - a cynic might say that this is why they continue to exist.
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.
I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
I want to know where my food comes from and the conditions in which it's grown. I also want to embrace traditional British produce, and seasonality.
In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.
Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.
I represent what I think is a traditional Republican... a limited government, fiscal responsibility, strong national defense, individual freedom and liberty.
American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
Because it's not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that the lives of families are determined by the community in which they live and the cultural tradition from which they come.
