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• I have never thought of participating in sports just for the sake of doing it for exercise or as a means to lose weight. And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad. I really enjoy playing. It is a vital part of my life.

  Dinah Shore

  Sports, Taken, Mean

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• When it comes to horror there's a strange need to analyze. When "evil children" fad happened, there was The Exorcist and The Other and The Omen. People would say, "What this really means is that Americans don't want to have kids anymore. They feel hostility towards their own children. They feel they're being tied down and dragged down." In fact, in most cases, what those books are about is nice children who are beset by forces beyond their control.

  Stephen King

  Children, Nice, Book

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• While fad diets might seem like the quick-fix solution to lose weight, they won't help you get healthy in the long run.

  Daphne Oz

  Running, Long, Healthy

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• Down through the years certain fads of slang had come and gone, and their vestiges could be found in Janie's and Mabel's conversation, like mastodon bones in a swamp.

  Dolores Hitchens

  Years, Gone, Swamps

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• Now 3D is no longer a fad but I don't get all crazy about it and say that everything has got to be in 3D. It is a nice tool, like color or sound or whatever. I was quite intrigued and I learned, 3D opened up a lot of questions about how to use it. I think it is great. It's like if a movie needs to be in black and white then that's how I will shoot it. I see color as just another character or black and white as a character.

  Tim Burton

  Crazy, Nice, Character

  Source: www.fanbolt.com

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• Metallica lives in a little bubble. We just do our own thing. We're not part of any trends or waves or fads. We can just do our own thing, all the time. It's a great luxury. I don't think we were really appreciative of it until recently, and really understood that it is what keeps us alive. It's great to be able to have the freedom to run around and do all this crazy stuff, and at all cost, avoid making another record, just to piss our managers off.

  Lars Ulrich

  Running, Crazy, Thinking

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• Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" thought the greed of getting supporters.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Mean, Greed

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1678, Manonmani Publishers

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• Feminism is not a fad. It's not like Angry Birds. Although it does involve a lot of angry birds. Bad example.

  Bridget Christie

  Bird, Feminism, Example

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• The largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are out to impose upon the nation their modish fads and fallacies, and have nearly succeeded in doing so. In this cultural issue, we are, without reservations, on the side of excellence (rather than "newness") and of honest intellectual combat (rather than conformity).

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Art, America, Issues

  "Our Mission Statement" by William F. Buckley Jr., www.nationalreview.com. November 19, 1955.

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• Those of us who have the duty of training the rising generation of doctors...must not inseminate the virgin minds of the young with the tares of our own fads. It is for this reason that it is easily possible for teaching to be too 'up to date'. It is always well, before handing the cup of knowledge to the young, to wait until the froth has settled.

  Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet

  Education, Teaching, Doctors

  British Medical Journal 1: 995 (1925)

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• Every new fad or fashion at once has its denouncers from the pulpit, platform, professor's chair.

  Alice Dunbar Nelson

  Fashion, Ideas, Innovation

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• I am firmly convinced that the trend toward more fuel-efficient vehicles is not a fad. Gas prices will continue to rise in the medium to long term, because demand is growing considerably in China, India and other countries.

  Norbert Reithofer

  Country, Long, India

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I've never done a trendy diet or subscribed to a fashionable health fad in my life.

  Matthew Hussey

  Done, Trendy, Fashionable

  "Interview With Rising Star Matthew Hussey, Bestselling Author of Get The Guy and International Love Guru". Interview with Nicole Bryl, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2013.

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• I have a feeling that demonstrations don't accomplish anything. That they become fads. I also feel that demonstrations wouldn't go on unless there is a TV camera. That part of it all is performance for the media. I didn't know whether they are completely honest.

  Frank Capra

  Media, Feelings, Cameras

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• The 1990s, in New York at least, were all about who could have the baggiest pants, and I definitely got swept up in that fad. Luckily, it didn't last long - but I've made sure that my pants fit ever since.

  Skylar Astin

  New York, Long, Lasts

  "Q&A: Five Questions for Skylar Astin". Interview with Nic Screws, www.esquire.com. April 17, 2013.

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• European democracy was originally imbued with a sense of Christian responsibility and self-discipline, but these spiritual principles have been gradually losing their force. Spiritual independence is being pressured on all sides by the dictatorship of self-satisfied vulgarity, of the latest fads, and of group interests.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Christian, Spiritual, Responsibility

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• When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers.

  Mary Travers

  Rocks, Changed, Folks

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• Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mistake, Noble, Mood

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• Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last analysis, the welfare of the workers depends upon their own initiative. Whatever is done under the guise of philanthropy or social morality which in any way lessens initiative is the greatest crime that can be committed against the toilers. Let social busybodies and professional "public morals experts" in their fads reflect upon the perils they rashly invite under this pretense of social welfare.

  Samuel Gompers

  People, Done, Way

  Samuel Gompers, John McBride, William Green (1922). “The American Federationist”

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• The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose a piece of our self-esteem every time we fail another diet or neglect to use the gym membership we could barely afford.

  Portia de Rossi

  Self Esteem, Pills, Use

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• The economy and its dismal status is the result of policy decisions that Obama has made and put into place. It's not the quirk of fate. It's not that America's best days are over. It's not that America's past was a fad or a quirk. It's not that the great economic days of the eighties were illegitimate or unreal. It's not that this is the new normal. It's not that all of the greatness in the past was undeserved. It is precisely because of Obama policies implemented since 2009 that this country is in the shape it's in.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Fate, Past

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I still think that the point of reference for every Indian when he is in doubt on any political or social issue is to say, "What would [Mahatma] Gandhi have done under the circumstances?" I didn't subscribe to his fads - prohibition, celibacy, no doctors - but generally he was always right. He meant more to me than any of my gurus.

  Khushwant Singh

  Thinking, Issues, Doctors

  Source: unforgettabletarun.blogspot.com

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• I don't have a crystal ball, but if you can ever put yourself in a situation where you are indispensable - where you aren't part of what looks like a fad, but you actually are a company, a brand that people trust and go to - at this point, you could put some of the mainstays of tech on anything, right?

  Alexis Ohanian

  People, Balls, Looks

  Source: www.fool.com

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• I don't really chase trends and fads because they are fleeting.

  Eric Benet

  Fleeting, Trends

  "Eric Benet Interview: New Album, Staying Authentic, Passion for R&B, Potential Project with Tamia". Youknowigotsoul.com Interview, youknowigotsoul.com. October 5, 2016.

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• This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.

  Gail Collins

  People, Firsts, Internet

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