Fashionable Quotes - Page 5

• The lack of racial diversity and gender diversity and the lack of female directors - those are not fashionable issues. And they're not issues that reside solely within the film industry.

  Cate Blanchett

  Issues, Diversity, Directors

  "Cate Blanchett Knows You're Zooming in on Her Pores and She's Cool with It". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.marieclaire.com. February 29, 2016.

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• I've said I won't eat meat until the whole world can eat it responsibly, which is going to be hard. It's becoming more and more fashionable to eat more and more meat and they've just made it fashionable to eat meat in the east in China, which is a massive population.

  Douglas Booth

  Becoming, Meat, Population

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• ...and motioned me toward a spot next to a middle-aged Moroi in a very formal and very designer black suit. The suit screamed, I'm sorry the queen is dead, and I'm going to look fashionable while showing my grief

  Richelle Mead

  Queens, Sorry, Grief

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.247, Penguin

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• He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college age villain was wearing to Harvard this year.

  Rick Riordan

  College, Years, Evil

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and accountable only to myself.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Hate, Independent, Artist

  Alexandre Dumas (2013). “Delphi Works of Alexandre Dumas (Illustrated)”, p.3990, Delphi Classics

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• One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other fashionable young couples, which is a shame.

  Libba Bray

  Couple, Alps, Arguing

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• We were a commodity used by corporations to make their brand look fashionable, but then they used us to keep kids out of venues.

  Zachary Cole Smith

  Kids, Looks, Corporations

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Other men puffed, snorted, and splashed. George passed through the ocean with the silent dignity of a torpedo. Other men swallowed water, here a mouthful, there a pint, anon, maybe, a quart or so, and returned to the shore like foundering derelicts. George's mouth had all the exclusiveness of a fashionable club. His breast stroke was a thing to see and wonder at. When he did the crawl, strong men gasped. When he swam on his back, you felt that that was the only possible method of progression.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Strong, Ocean, Men

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• Only the dead are truly smart, truly cool. Nothing touches them. While I live, however, I side with bumbling suffering crooked life, with anger rather than boredom, with sweet lust, hunger & carelessness...against the icy avant-guard & its fashionable premonitions of the sepulcher.

  Hakim Bey

  Sweet, Smart, Boredom

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• As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes.

  Elton John

  Children, Teenager, Clothes

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• I always wanted to be fashionable.

  John Malkovich

  Wanted

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• My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.

  Danica McKellar

  Fun, Powerful, Giving Up

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• I've always enjoyed doing dishes. Maybe it was the fashionable yellow gloves that I loved so much. It's weird, I know, but I find cleaning cathartic.

  Rachel Nichols

  Yellow, Gloves, Cleaning

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• There are occasions that I love to be fashionable and enjoy, you know? But the work day of a mother doesn't include a hair making team or any consideration of your shoe.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Mother, Team, Hair

  "Sarah Jessica Parker Interview - Sex and the City". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 23, 2008.

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• I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

  Dolly Parton

  Trying

  "Dolly Parton: 'I may look fake but I'm real where it counts'". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2011.

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• The current period of regression is registering some success in "producing people" who are subordinated to external power, diverted to such "superficial things" as "fashionable consumption" and other pursuits more fitting for the "bewildered herd" than participation in determining the course of individual and social life.

  Noam Chomsky

  Superficial Things, People, Regression

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• Some athletes are super fashionable and not good. It's like c'mon man focus on your craft, be who you're supposed to be and then go put on the clothes.

  Pusha T

  Athlete, Men, Clothes

  Source: theneptunes.org

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• There's more to come. Series 4 [of Peaky Blinders] is coming soon. But I'm proud of making my hometown, which is considered to be completely unfashionable, slightly fashionable. People actually know where it is now.

  Steven Knight

  People, Proud, Hometown

  Source: collider.com

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• It is fashionable to scoff at Americans, but they routinely produce most of the important and ground-breaking entertainment in the world. 'Popular culture' is still culture, Shakespeare was once as popular as any of today's icons with the common people.

  Ian O'Doherty

  Icons, People, Important

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• Our advanced and fashionable thinkers are, naturally, out on a wide swing of the pendulum, away from the previous swing of the pendulum.... They seem to have an un-argue-out-able position, as is the manner of sophists, but this is no guarantee that they are right.

  Anthony Standen

  Science, Thinking, Swings

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• It is impossible to solve health problems of millions of people with the help of pills. People need to put it into practice, have passion for it; healthy lifestyle, fitness and sports should become fashionable.

  Vladimir Putin

  Sports, Passion, Practice

  "Sott Exclusive: Full unedited text of Vladimir Putin's interview with Charlie Rose: What CBS left out". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.sott.net. September 29, 2015.

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• A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I think, as I have observed it to be considered since. I have known it very fashionable indeed. I have seen it displayed with such success, that I have encountered some fine ladies and gentlemen who might as well have been born caterpillars.

  Charles Dickens

  Passion, Thinking, Gentleman

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield”, p.371

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• And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Nature, Book, Air

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Pierre Antoine Motteux (1719). “The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by P. Motteux”, p.12

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• In religious matters it is now fashionable to define tolerance as the absence of criticism of any standard religion. All too often, this absence of criticism degenerates into a conspicuous absence of thought.

  Paul Blanshard

  Religious, Tolerance, Criticism

  Paul Blanshard (1960). “God and Man in Washington”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• I was a failure in Boston...because they thought I was too fashionable to be intelligent, and a failure in New York because they were afraid I was too intelligent to be fashionable.

  Edith Wharton

  New York, Intelligent, Boston

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