Throwback Quotes

• I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.

  L. Neil Smith

  Tired, Exercise, Rights

  "I'm Tired (With Apologies to Pearl Bailey and Madeleine Kahn)". Second annual Liberty Round Table Conclave near Estes Park, Colorado, July 2, 1998.

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• J. Lo, whether she is good or bad, is like a fiery movie star, a throwback to Elizabeth Taylor in her heyday.

  Steven Cojocaru

  Stars, Heyday, Movie Star

  "Interview with Steven Cojocaru, 'People'". "CNN Live Today", www.cnn.com. March 25, 2002.

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• Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.

  James Stockdale

  Mean Girls, Paper, Yeah

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• The Meatbats are a throwback band.

  Chad Smith

  Band

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• Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time.

  Arnold J. Mandell

  Football, Islands, Games

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• Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.

  Wole Soyinka

  Thinking, Space

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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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• Even when the [Ronald] Reagan revolution happened, it was in large way, a "'Let's make America great again' without saying that" kind of a movement, don't you feel? It was kind of a throwback to an earlier generation.

  Cynthia Nixon

  America, Generations, Movement

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Putting gloves on the fighters was a symbolic change that suggested that we were now making it a civilized sport, and it was no longer this crazy gladiatorial throwback to ancient Rome. It's even in our language: If you want to get serious and violent, what do you do? You "take the gloves off." Bare-fisted is supposedly a much more dangerous way to hit someone. But we've got it completely backward. The glove is a weapon. It massively accentuates the ability of the fist to do harm.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Sports, Crazy, Rome

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• There's reality shows and things like that and I think 'Parenthood''s kind of a throwback to what we used to have back in the '70s, '80s and '90s. People want to see this again, and I feel like it's just a solid, good show.

  Monica Potter

  Reality, Thinking, 80s And 90s

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• Used to rock a throwback ballin on the corner, now I rock tailored suit lookin' like a owner.

  Jay-Z

  Rocks, Tailored Suits, Used

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• I really like to put my name on everything, so my roommate doesn't steal it. It's really a throwback to that.

  Jon Stewart

  Names, Roommate, Stealing

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• The critical question is how a religious tradition is interpreted. Is it interpreted in ways that are pro-human rights or in ways that are a throwback to the Dark Ages?

  Khaled Abou El Fadl

  Religious, Dark, Rights

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When I first started drinking, everybody was doing it. That was before they discovered marijuana and all that. It was the late 50s, early 60s - it was the beginnings of the rock 'n' roll era. The main drink was like wine. And even that was a romantic throwback to something.

  Van Morrison

  Drinking, Wine, Marijuana

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• The Principle of Tolerance, fixed once for all the realization that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that at the very time when this was being worked out, there should rise, under Hitler in Germany and other tyrants elsewhere, a counter-conception: a principle of monstrous certainty. When the future looks back on the 1930's, it will think of them as a crucial confrontation of culture as I have been expounding it - the ascent of man against the throwback to the despots' belief that they have absolute certainty.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Faith, Men, Thinking

  "The Ascent of Man" (Episode 11: "Knowledge or Certainty"), 1973.

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• The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which finally passed in the Senate late last year, is a throwback to the 1990s, when ENDA was first introduced; the bill wasn’t updated to the times we live in. It exempts businesses owned by religious groups.

  Michelangelo Signorile

  Religious, Years, Firsts

  "Why New Polling Shows Both the GOP and LGBT Groups Are Out of Touch" by Michelangelo Signorile, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2014.

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• The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Puritan, Harvard

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• I've got an uncle myself. Nobody should be held responsible for their uncles. Nature's little throwbacks - that's how I look at it.

  Agatha Christie

  Uncles, Aunt, Looks

  Agatha Christie (2011). “Miss Marple – Miss Marple and Mystery: The Complete Short Stories (Miss Marple)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.

  Robert Byrd

  Patriotic, Fighting, Race

  "An Unlikely Friendship: President Obama and Senator Byrd" by Eve Zibel, www.foxnews.com. June 28, 2010.

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• I am a feminist, and I didn't think women would accept a throwback heroine.

  Linda Woolverton

  Thinking, Feminist, Accepting

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• This church was open and seemingly unattended, and it was a throwback in another way as well. The candles in the little side altars were real ones, actual wax candles that burned with an open flame. Lots of churches have switched over to electrified altars. You drop your quarter in the slot and a flame-shaped bulb goes on and stays on for your quarter's worth of time. It's like a parking meter, and if you stay too long they tow away your soul.

  Lawrence Block

  Real, Flames, Parking Meters

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• The body must be regarded as a site of social, political, cultural and geographical inscriptions, production or constitution. The body is not opposed to culture, a resistant throwback to a natural past; it is itself a cultural, the cultural product.

  Elizabeth Grosz

  Past, Political, Culture

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• Its difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesnt matter if youre talking vampire movies or Dawn of the Dead or The Thing or Escape From New York. Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it.

  Ethan Hawke

  New York, School, Talking

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• While opponents label (Howard) Dean a throwback liberal, The New York Times recently noted that as governor, Dean cut income taxes, reformed welfare and balanced Vermont's budget - all traditionally conservative policies. Dean also received an 'A' rating from the National Rifle Association, which I think you can't get unless you've killed a guy.

  Jon Stewart

  New York, Cutting, Thinking

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• [Jean-Paul] Sartre was a throwback to the existential period. I'm not really so much into that these days. I went through a period of going over things and looking at them again to see what they were. But I'm into psychiatry type things. I'm into philosophy. I'm into that sort of thing.

  Van Morrison

  Philosophy, Existential, Type

  Source: ritchieyorke.com

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