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• You know when people start talking about freedom they have to be old. They gotta be old-fashioned and really out of touch. Freedom? Well, what's that? Who needs any of that?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Talking, People, Needs

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• I've always believed in the old-fashioned way: When you've got scoundrels in office, you vote 'em out.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Office, Ems, Way

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• I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western.

  Jensen Ackles

  Gun, Texas, Western

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• I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.

  Ang Lee

  Heart, Thinking, Chinese

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• Go and see whether the Doctor is about,’ said Jack, ‘and if he is, ask him to look in, when he has a moment.’ Which he is in the fish-market, turning over some old-fashioned lobsters. No. I tell a lie. That is him, falling down the companion-way and cursing in foreign.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Lying, Fall, Doctors

  Patrick O'Brian (2000). “Blue at the Mizzen (Vol. Book 20) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)”, p.281, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old-fashioned way: I love you. You do not know me (although you have seen me, smiled at me). I know you (although not so well as I would like. I want to be there when your eyes flutter open in the morning, and you see me, and you smile. Surely this would be paradise enough?). So I do declare myself to you now, with pen set to paper. I declare it again: I love you.

  Neil Gaiman

  Love, Morning, Eye

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• A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Cat, Broken

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• Nothing grows old-fashioned so fast as modernity.

  Robertson Davies

  Grows, Modernity

  Robertson Davies (1982). “High spirits”, Penguin Group USA

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• Fair, rich confusion is all the aim of an old-fashioned flower garden, and the greater the confusion, the richer. You want to come upon mignonnette in unexpected places, and to find sprays of heliotrope in close consultation with your roses, and geraniums sporting their uniforms like gay recruits off duty.

  Anna Bartlett Warner

  Flower, Gay, Garden

  Anna Bartlett Warner (1872). “Gardening by Myself”, p.64

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• Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.

  Brian Dennehy

  Believe, Matter, Morality

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• Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.

  J. C. Macaulay

  Forgiveness, Long, May

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• I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of, like, His Girl Friday and Bringing Up Baby, those old movies.

  Judy Greer

  Girl, Friday, Baby

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2011.

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• What a relief. I didn't have to check the toilet for anything or the light bulbs or the phone. It was just good old-fashioned friendship.

  Julia Roberts

  Phones, Light, Relief

  "Julia Roberts praises co-star Clive Owen". www.rte.ie. March 9, 2009.

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• Personally, I think that my father's ministry does have some effect on one. I perhaps thought I wasn't listening that well, but I could almost recite his sermons. He had the old-fashioned preaching style of chanting. He would explain a point and then there would be this pitch to excite the audience because people would eventually shout and respond to what he was saying.

  David C. Driskell

  Father, Thinking, People

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I like old-fashioned romance, when the two people sleep in separate beds but still hold hands all night. Their hands rest on a little table between the beds.

  Kaley Cuoco

  Sleep, Night, Hands

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• I eat till, honest, I felt every button on all my clo'es. The folks where we were stayin' were the old-fashioned hospitable kind; they didn't let you off till your jaws struck work and wouldn't wag no more.

  Laura E. Richards

  Buttons, Wags, Honest

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• Feminists have mocked full-time motherhood as silly and old fashioned. Maybe they're right. I mean, what do moms do really?

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Mom, Silly, Mean

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned.

  Margaret Ayer Barnes

  Essence, Feelings, Spontaneity

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• You will be old-fashioned one day. It's more shocking than getting old.

  Enid Bagnold

  Age, One Day, Shocking

  Enid Bagnold (1970). “Four plays”

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• Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.

  Emily Post

  Social Values, Courtesy, Manners

  Emily Post (1960). “Etiquette: the blue book of social usage”

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• The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.

  Fanny Fern

  Term, Has Beens, Misused

  Fanny Fern (1868). “Folly as it Flies”, p.316

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• I have a very old-fashioned and traditional mode of dress. I get embarrassed, and I don't really like going to photo shoots. I don't like stylists.

  Charlie Watts

  Dresses, Stylist, Embarrassed

  "Charlie Watts's Guide to Dressing Like a Gentleman". Interview with Mary Kaye Schilling, www.gq.com. June 29, 2012.

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• American women often fall into the trap of, "Oh, these are my weekend clothes. These are my work clothes. This is what I wear at night." It's so old-fashioned. The French are not afraid of their luxury. Americans can be so puritanical and think, "That's my special-occasion bag." Whereas, for a French woman, it's her everyday bag.

  Michael Kors

  Fall, Weekend, Night

  "Exclusive: Michael Kors' Lifetime Achievements". Interview with Katie Connor, www.marieclaire.com. September 13, 2010.

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• The coat of the buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders; it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.

  Theodore Parker

  Fashion, Coats, Arms

  Theodore Parker (1872). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man”, p.31

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• you can give it a long name if you like, but I'm an old-fashioned woman and I call it mother-wit, and it's so rare for a man to have it that if he does you write a book about him and call him Sherlock Holmes.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Mother, Book, Writing

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2013). “The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death”, p.408, Open Road Media

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