Fads Quotes

• Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Actors, Want, Film

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• Nobody creates a fad. It just happens. People love going along with the idea of a beautiful pig. It’s like a conspiracy.

  Jim Henson

  Beautiful, Pigs, Ideas

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• All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.

  Jared Diamond

  Practice, Use, Literature

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• A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries; a principle, forever.

  William George Jordan

  Philosophy, Forever, Principles

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• The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

  Bill Gates

  Years, Sick, Killing Each Other

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• Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it.

  Conway Twitty

  Kissing, Kiss Of Death

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• Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.

  Colin Powell

  Team, Management, Fit

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• Playing good girls in the '30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress.

  Olivia de Havilland

  Girl, Thinking, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The most adorable thing about Toronto is that she remains fiercely aloof and indifferent to the fads and entrepreneurial fevers of her lovers. She is intractably herself, admissive to the most vagrant, sober in a way that gets misinterpreted as stodginess. Her generosity extends to the meek as well as the gold diggers. Mercifully, she doesn't give a hoot about our portraits of her, but just waits, patiently, for our affection and citizenship.

  Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

  Giving, Adorable, Generosity

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• Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.

  Irving Thalberg

  Talking, Novelty, Welcome

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn't know what they were talking about it.

  Jam Master Jay

  Rap, Reality, Talking

  "Run-DMC star, 37, was hip-hop pioneer", www.cnn.com. October 31, 2002.

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• I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to.

  Robert Sheckley

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• Working in the entertainment industry exposes me to every current cosmetic fad.

  Connie Sellecca

  Cosmetics, Entertainment, Currents

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• And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad.

  Dinah Shore

  Sports, Taken, Injustice

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• I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

  Grace Paley

  Believe, Ideas, Kind

  Grace Paley, Gerhard Bach, Blaine H. Hall (1997). “Conversations with Grace Paley”, p.69, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

  Diane Ravitch

  Stupid, Past, Ideas

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• I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.

  Larry Niven

  Privacy, Passing, Suspects

  Larry Niven (2010). “Stars and Gods”, p.361, Macmillan

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• The church today is riddled with fad doctrines and new sounds that distract from the clear message of the Great commission in the New Testament. Any message that attracts you which does not bring glory to Christ is the message of a seducing spirit and the man giving it is in deception.

  John Hagee

  Men, Church Today, Giving

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• Humans have a strong desire to be part of a group. That desire makes us susceptible to fads, fashions, and idea contagions.

  Michael Mauboussin

  Fashion, Strong, Ideas

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• I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Cities, Long, Way

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• My family thought the fascination with acting was just another fad.

  Sean Bean

  Acting, Fascination, My Family

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• Taking in and blowing out smoke? And now you see girls smoking cigars. It got to be such a fad. Girls on the covers of magazines, smoking cigars. Give me a break. I didn't want to be a part of that. I don't like 'popular.'

  James Coburn

  Girl, Giving, Smoking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't do fad things or diets - they don't work.

  Linda Gray

  Diets

  "Linda Gray on the return of Dallas and her best friend Larry Hagman". www.mirror.co.uk. October 12, 2011.

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• Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.

  Mick Jagger

  Remember, Don't Take Life Too Seriously, Passing

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