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• Masculinity is what you believe it to be. I think masculinity and femininity is something that's very old-fashioned. There's a whole new generation of people who aren't defined by their sex or race or who they like to sleep with.

  Johnny Weir

  Sex, Believe, Sleep

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• It was an old fashioned house --the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like to be persecuted in.

  Susanna Clarke

  House, Might, Facts

  Susanna Clarke (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.518, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I don't need a baby growing inside me for nine months. If I'm going to feel nauseous and achy when I wake up, I want to achieve that state the old-fashioned way: getting good and drunk the night before.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Baby, Humor

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• While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not with the pencil he is using, but with an old-fashioned goose pen, and not with the quill end but with the feather end. As if hundreds of butterflies have settled all over my face, and are softly opening and closing their wings.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Butterfly, Wings

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Alias Grace: A Novel”, p.69, Anchor

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• To some it may seem old-fashioned to speak of virtue and chastity, honesty, morality, faith, character, but these are the qualities which have built great men and women and point the way by which one may find happiness in the living of today and eternal joy in the world to come. These are the qualities which are the anchors to our lives, in spite of the trials, the tragedies, the pestilences, and the cruelties of war which bring in their wake appalling destruction, hunger, and bloodshed

  Harold B. Lee

  Honesty, War, Character

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• You mean that people who continue virtuous in an old-fashioned way must inevitably suffer in times like these?

  Robert Graves

  Mean, Times Like These, People

  Robert Graves (1982). “Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina: The Troublesome Reign of Tiberius Claudius Caesar, Emperor of the Romans (born 10 B.C., Died A.D. 54), as Described by Himself, Also His Murder at the Hands of the Notorious Agrippina (mother of the Emperor Nero) and His Subsequent Deification, as Described by Others”

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• I could have protested of course, who says I couldn't--I could have risen to my feet at any moment, walked up to them, and--no matter how difficult it would have been--made it abundantly clear that I was not seventeen but thirty. I could have--yet I couldn't because I didn't want to, the only thing I wanted was to prove that I was not an old-fashioned boy!

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Boys, Feet, Want

  Witold Gombrowicz (2012). “Ferdydurke”, p.113, Yale University Press

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• I don't believe in things like that - fairies or brownies or magic or anything. It's old-fashioned.' 'Well, we must be jolly old-fashioned then,' said Bessie. 'Because we not only believe in the Faraway Tree and love our funny friends there, but we go to see them too - and we visit the lands at the top of the Tree as well!

  Enid Blyton

  Believe, Funny Friend, Land

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• What has happened to the good old-fashioned travel agent? I want to go to a really posh travel agent and have them organize everything for me. I don't want to do things on the Internet.

  Jenny Eclair

  Agents, Want, Internet

  "Me and my travels". Interview With Carl Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2006.

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• My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.

  Faith Evans

  Religious, School, Grandparent

  "Singer Faith Evans Talks Christmas Hip-Hop". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. December 21, 2005.

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• I think films are perishable, because they depend too much on technology, which advances too quickly and the films become old-fashioned, antiques. What I hope for is that technology advances to the point that films in the future will depend on a little pill which you take; then you sit in the dark, and from your eyes you project the film you want to see on a blank wall.

  Luis Bunuel

  Wall, Eye, Dark

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• Sometimes I would like the opportunity to do character-driven comedy and that's really what I was trying to do in Meet The Parents. I think in a way this is a more old fashioned type of comedy.

  Jay Roach

  Character, Opportunity, Thinking

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

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• I am just old-fashioned enough to prefer long hair.

  Erich von Stroheim

  Hair, Long, Enough

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• People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city, but, instead, huddled together in traffic jams, bus queues, on escalators and so on. It's a new kind of togetherness which may seem totally alien, but it's the togetherness of modern technology.

  J. G. Ballard

  Italian, Technology, Cities

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• Capitalism has made it this way, old fashioned fascism will take it away.

  Marilyn Manson

  Way, Politics, Made

  Song: The Beautiful People

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• I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

  Francesca Annis

  Work, Home, Views

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• The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

  Oscar Wilde

  Respect, Dying, Young

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• The old fashioned family physician and general practitioner ... was a splendid figure and useful person in his day; but he was badly trained, he was often ignorant, he made many mistakes, for one cannot by force of character and geniality of person make a diagnosis of appendicitis, or recognize streptococcus infection.

  Charles Loomis Dana

  Mistake, Character, Science

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• I am a little old fashioned. I believe that in a relationship a man and a woman are never equal.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Relationship, Believe, Men

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• I am an old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness, flag waving patriot.

  John Wayne

  Flags, Honest, Patriot

  John Wayne, Carol Lea Mueller (2007). “The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon”, p.11, Taylor Trade Publications

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• Vampires are so old that they don't need to impress anyone anymore. They're comfortable in their own skin. It's this enigmatic strength that's very romantic and old-fashioned. I think it goes back to something of a Victorian attitude of finding a strong man who's going to look after his woman.

  Stephen Moyer

  Strong, Attitude, Men

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• I'm obsessed with hula-hooping. I do it for 20 minutes a day. I don't use the old-fashioned hollow plastic kind we had when we were kids, but I discovered a new one at Danskin that's smaller and weighted.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Kids, Use, Hula

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• The only way I'm interested in having a baby is the old-fashioned way.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Baby, Way, Having A Baby

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• Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.

  Jane Addams

  Women, Memorable, Feet

  Jane Addams, Berenice A. Carroll, Clinton F. Fink (1907). “Newer Ideals of Peace”, p.103, University of Illinois Press

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• I'm kind of an old-fashioned guy.

  Joe Arpaio

  Guy, Kind

  "The Long, Lawless Ride of Sheriff Joe Arpaio" by Joe Hagan, www.rollingstone.com. August 2, 2012.

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