Retro Quotes

• I don't want to be a reality retro star.

  Bret Michaels

  Stars, Reality, Want

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• Skating is now retro and hip.

  Robin Cousins

  Athlete, Skating, Hips

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• In the fashion industry, everything goes retro except the prices.

  Criss Jami

  Fashion, Funny But True, Industry

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.84, Criss Jami

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• To do then now would be retro. To do then then was very now-tro, if you will.

  Harry Shearer

  Would Be, Mighty Wind, Ifs

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• I tend to keep my style very classic. I like very girly, retro inspired, feminine floral things. I'm not very edgy.

  Ariana Grande

  Girly, Style, Classic

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.

  Marc Newson

  Agreement, People, Stuff

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• Most people are trying to go digital, and trying to do different things with poetry. McSweeney's is going in the opposite direction - going more classic, and retro, which is all coming back.

  Victoria Chang

  Opposites, People, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I really like the retro look. My regular clothing, I like to always keep it classy and I like to kind of be more dressed up more of the time. I'm not really someone you see in sweatpants a lot.

  Aly Raisman

  Looks, Kind, Sweatpants

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• It's a fusion of almost everything, in the way that I think society today tends to take cultural memory. Because there's an internet, it's on there forever. I think that's the way kids see the world today. They actually speak to each other using retro concepts now because the internet culture has kept that memory alive, constantly.

  Joseph M. Kahn

  Memories, Kids, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't think they'll ever make a retro Bond.

  William Boyd

  Thinking

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• Knitted fur is so modern and light, it makes this retro shape cool again.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Light, Fur, Shapes

  "Big Bang Theory". www.elle.com. June 14, 2011.

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• I like very girly, retro inspired, feminine, floral things. I'm not very edgy.

  Ariana Grande

  Girly, Inspired, Feminine

  "We Sent Two of Ariana Grande's Biggest Fans to Interview Her - Come See What Happened!". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. September 5, 2013.

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• Makeup can be pure fantasy--it can transform you into any kind of magical creature, whether that's a superhero or a retro Hollywood icon or just a more fun, fresher version of yourself. Looking like a stress-free, well-rested working mom? That's some kind of magic to me.

  Jessica Alba

  Mom, Fun, Stress

  Jessica Alba (2013). “The Honest Life (Enhanced Edition): Living Naturally and True to You”, p.64, Rodale

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• My personal style is a mixture of, like, girly, throwback, like retro '50s pin-ups, floral, like hippies, like anything feminine, and like flirty.

  Ariana Grande

  Girly, Flirty, Hippie

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• If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.

  Nate Ruess

  Song, Moving, Tunes

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• Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up those reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation's clothes and hair suddenly retro.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Giving Up, Hate, Television Commercials

  "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2003.

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• My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.

  Brandi Carlile

  Artist, Vintage, Advice

  "Bear Creek : A Conversation With Brandi Carlile, Plus Rocket Juice & The Moon by Galen Hawthorne". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 04, 2012.

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• Even though there's stuff that I really like that is just a retro sort of style or whatever, I feel like what I'm most excited by is new mixes of things.

  Panda Bear

  Style, Stuff, Excited

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• I do have a lot of references coming out of the '60s, '70s, and '80s, but I don't consciously think, "I'm going to put this here and this there." It comes out of my unconscious, and I don't want it to be just retro.

  Britta Phillips

  Thinking, Want, Coming Out

  "Britta Phillips Branches Out". Interview with William J. Simmons, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 9, 2016.

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• What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff.

  Ted Demme

  Thinking, Looks, Pieces

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

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• I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best known books, the Mortal Engines series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future.

  Philip Reeve

  Book, Stuff, Used

  "Philip Reeve: 'I can't even drive a car, let alone an inter-dimensional phone box'". Interview with Patrick, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2013.

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• I prefer the retro chic of spending Christmas just like Joseph and Mary did - Traveling arduously back to the place of your birth to be counted, with no guarantee of a bed when you get there.

  Tina Fey

  Bed, Guarantees, Birth

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.151, Hachette UK

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• In some senses, I think it's almost deliberately anachronistic. There's a retro feel to the [Donald] Trump program.

  Judy Woodruff

  Thinking, Program, Trump

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The revolution of video had a massive affect. We grew up in a time where suddenly you could own films. Before, they had a theatrical run, and then perhaps they'd come back, or you'd catch them in a retro cinema.

  Simon Pegg

  Running, Video, Cinema

  "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.

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• When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.

  Jack White

  Hate, Past, People

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

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