Old Fashioned Quotes - Page 19

• Next to an old-fashioned church social, or possibly a monster bridge party, there is no buzz which can equal the sibilant buzz ofa matinée.

  Robert Benchley

  Party, Bridges, Church

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• I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.

  Harper Lee

  Book, Library, Stills

  "Harper Lee OKs e-book version of 'To Kill a Mockingbird'" by Melodi Smith, www.cnn.com. April 29, 2014.

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• I call the years when our children are between six and twelve the "golden years," not because everything's perfect . . . but because the kids are capable and independent. . . . They're becoming fascinating human beings who continually astound us and make us laugh. And they build our self-esteem. They still adore us for the most part, not yet having reached that age of thinking everything we do is dumb, old-fashioned and irrelevant.

  Vicki Lansky

  Children, Self Esteem, Kids

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• I just made a movie. There's a kind of a banter that some people might recognize as being screwball. There are no cell phones, no DVD playersit's set in a timeless Brooklyn. Hopefully, it's a good, old-fashioned movie.

  Michael Showalter

  Phones, Dvds, Cells

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• I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing. If I sound old-fashioned, it's because I'm as old as I am! But it's just polite.

  Betty White

  Men, Doors, Sound

  "Betty White's Love Lessons". Sydney Morning Herald Interview, www.smh.com.au. May 17, 2011.

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• I wish the iPhone people would design one that's black and has two pieces, and it plugs into the wall and you can pick one piece up and talk into it. I tell you, the whole time I had one of those old-fashioned plug-in phones, not once did I misplace it.

  David Letterman

  Wall, Two, Iphone

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• I'm no longer interested in making political films. There's something old-fashioned about them. Young people now don't care for politics. It isn't present in life as it used to be. And increasingly I like films which reflect present-day reality.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Reality, People, Political

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• Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.

  Leontyne Price

  Art, Oil, Buttons

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• I'm really old-fashioned. An Epsom salt bath, that's genuinely better than any massage.

  Emilia Clarke

  Salt, Baths, Massage

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• If we're going to get this country out of its current energy situation, we can't just conserve our way out. We can't just drill our way out. We can't bomb our way out. We're going to do it the old-fashioned, American way. We're going to invent our way out, working together.

  Donald Sadoway

  Country, Motivation, Inspiration

  "The missing link to renewable energy". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2012.

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• If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on.

  Anita Loos

  Change, Sex, Kissing

  Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult

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• My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one way or another. Old-fashioned as that might sound, the philosophy is true.

  Elizabeth Kim

  Philosophy, Believe, Writing

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• When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.

  Tony Visconti

  Christmas, Song, Father

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• Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beauty, Real, Sunset

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.233, Oxford University Press

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• I find Jesse Jackson to be religiously, progressively old fashioned.

  Jackie Jackson

  "The Pilgrimage Of Jesse Jackson". "Frontline", www.pbs.org.

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• Let's face it: however old-fashioned and out of date and devaluated the word is, we like the way of living provided by democracy.

  Eve Curie

  Women, Democracy, Way

  Eve Curie (1940). “The Price of Freedom”

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• Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.

  Edward de Bono

  Communication, Ignorance, Perception

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• The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom. In terms of pollution, noise and human life, the price of that freedom may be high, but perhaps the car, by the very muddle and confusion it causes, may be holding back the remorseless spread of the regimented, electronic society.

  J. G. Ballard

  Life, Ideas, Confusion

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• Call me old-fashioned, but I like my conditioners to be conditioners and my shampoos to be shampoos.

  Kyan Douglas

  Shampoo, Call Me

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't want to be the Hollywood girl... I'm Southern and old-fashioned.

  Jaime Pressly

  Girl, Southern, Hollywood

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• You tell the people the stories the best you know. If there is something you don't know, you be up front and make that clear. You always give the aggrieved party the chance to respond before you publish or go to air. That's just my kind of old-fashioned news values.

  Wolf Blitzer

  Party, Responsibility, Air

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• I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.

  Nathan Lane

  Joining, Parades, Born

  "Bring on the clown" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2004.

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• I have too much potential for collapse. There's an anonymity that makes people feel safe to participate in hatefulness. I like a good old-fashioned fistfight if people are pissed off at each other. I just feel like if you're really mad and want to have a fight, then put your dukes up.

  Julia Roberts

  Fighting, People, Mad

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• I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Rebel, Complaining, Way

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• I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that's too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.

  Rihanna

  Hate, Bored, Routine

  "Rihanna In Vogue: ‘I Feel Sexy’", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2011.

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