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"The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement."
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"That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition."
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"History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it."
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"Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of."
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"Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create."
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"Despite progress witnessed elsewhere in the matters of heart, parents in this part of the world hadn't quite come around to letting their adult offspring choose their lovers."
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"We men had a meeting a long time ago, and we all decided, 'It's trousers'. And that's what we've worn ever since."
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"I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys."
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"Yogi seemed to be doing everything wrong, yet everything came out right."
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"Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build."
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"Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film."
Tradition
"I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy."
Experience
"I work with a lot of movie stars."
Work
"I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films."
Film
"I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film."
Film
"I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?"
Want
"A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing."
Work
"Do what you're told, and everything will be all right."
Obedience
"Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition."
God
"But Madonna has a small amount of talent when it comes to movies."
Movies
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