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That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time.
Dwayne Johnson

Time, Great, Dance

My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house.
Tom Hanks

Christmas, Movie, Quiet

I think it can be hard for any man to sometimes be upstaged by his wife. So when I'm home, I work very hard to be Todd's wife and Jade's mother. I have no problem going back to those traditional roles. I try to be Giada, the young girl that he met 20 years ago and fell in love with.
Giada De Laurentiis

Love, Work, Home

People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.
Tim Vine

Funny, Put, Effort

On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.
Madonna Ciccone

Life, Marriage, Family

The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.
Jeffrey Kluger

Life, Marriage, Death

More than anything else, let me be clear - we need to be willing to fight for freedom, and free markets, and traditional moral values. That's what the American people want to see this movement and this party return to.
Mike Pence

Freedom, Fight, Free

When I went into the seminary, I was one of those victims of New Math and had not had Algebra I and had no idea what we were doing in New Math in the ninth grade. But when I went into the seminary, they had gone the traditional route and taught first-year algebra.
Clarence Thomas

Idea, Gone, Taught

When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.
Mario Batali

Poetry, Book, Writing

To eat the boiled head of a pig sliced like salami is very strange. It may seem cutting edge, but it's actually a lot older than any of the other traditional salami.
Mario Batali

May, Strange, Older

I believe in traditional marriage.
Karl Rove

I was the editor of the school newspaper and in drama club and choir, so I was not a popular girl in the traditional sense, but I think I was known for being relatively scathing.
Tina Fey

School, Girl, Sense

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.
Damien Hirst

Good, Great, Art

As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home - seem more determined to prevent that happening.
Lucy Powell

Home, Government, Away

Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.
Evelyn Glennie

Music, Apart, Instincts

The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.
Fareed Zakaria

Money, War, End

In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion.
Jane Smiley

Life, Religion, Same

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.
Carrie Fisher

Love, Words, Reading

What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.
Patti Stanger

Men, Real, Difficult

It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost cliched Robin Askwith thing.
Russell Brand

Gay, Almost, Stuff

Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned.
Jeb Bush

Marriage, Sanctioned

I did side planks for my obliques, which are one of my trouble areas. And traditional planks tone your back so you don't have that little bit of fat hanging over your bra. Ugh!
Ashley Greene

Trouble, Fat, Bit

Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge.
Linus Torvalds

Live, Different, Here

I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there.
Linus Torvalds

Find, Used, Interested

It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
Laura Schlessinger

Talking, Values, Seems

I'm a big romantic, traditional, cheesy guy.
Josh Hutcherson

Romantic, Big, Guy

Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.
Bianca Jagger

America, Rights, Failed

I'm a traditional country singer and we're always trying to make that a fresh and modern sound. That's always going to be the challenge with me.
Joe Nichols

Trying, Country, Challenge

I wanted to make a traditional record that had a lot of art and showed my vulnerable side and showed things I'm passionate about.
Joe Nichols

Art, Wanted, Side

There are people out there who are into traditional country music and for those people you have artists like Brad Paisley and Josh Turner and Alan Jackson. Then you have artists with a progressive style of country music, like myself and Eric Church and Luke Bryan and Miranda Lambert.
Jason Aldean

Music, Country, Church

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