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• The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.

  Noam Chomsky

  Fall, Responsibility, Ideas

  "The people always pay". www.theguardian.com. January 21, 1999.

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• Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever. Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history. . . . All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago. All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written

  Peter Warlock

  Yesterday, Musical, Today

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• Working in 3D I didn't experience much of a difference, except that the cameras are very big so they can't be moved around with as much ease. It was more like, when you've seen photos of cameras from the 1930s being moved around with these huge cranes. So there was something quite sort of old-fashioned about it almost.

  James Frain

  Differences, Cameras, Ease

  "James Frain Talks ‘TRON: Legacy’ & ‘The Cape’". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. December 23, 2010.

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• Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of his patients, is old-fashioned, distasteful, and doomed.

  Michael Crichton

  Doctors, Entrepreneur, Patient

  Michael Crichton (1970). “Five Patients: The Hospital Explained”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Nothing will ever replace good old fashioned police work, but Facebook and Twitter have been like a tool on our belt, In some ways it can help them in their investigations and in some ways it can hinder

  William Bratton

  Police Work, Tools, Way

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• We parked in back and walked down the stairs with their polished brass railings, past the old-fashioned kitchen. We could see the chefs cooking. It smelled like stew, or meat loaf, the way time should smell, solid and nourishing.

  Janet Fitch

  Past, Smell, Cooking

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.137, Hachette UK

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• You will be old-fashioned one day. It's more shocking than getting old.

  Enid Bagnold

  Age, One Day, Shocking

  Enid Bagnold (1970). “Four plays”

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• Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.

  Emily Post

  Social Values, Courtesy, Manners

  Emily Post (1960). “Etiquette: the blue book of social usage”

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• The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.

  Fanny Fern

  Term, Has Beens, Misused

  Fanny Fern (1868). “Folly as it Flies”, p.316

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• I have a very old-fashioned and traditional mode of dress. I get embarrassed, and I don't really like going to photo shoots. I don't like stylists.

  Charlie Watts

  Dresses, Stylist, Embarrassed

  "Charlie Watts's Guide to Dressing Like a Gentleman". Interview with Mary Kaye Schilling, www.gq.com. June 29, 2012.

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• American women often fall into the trap of, "Oh, these are my weekend clothes. These are my work clothes. This is what I wear at night." It's so old-fashioned. The French are not afraid of their luxury. Americans can be so puritanical and think, "That's my special-occasion bag." Whereas, for a French woman, it's her everyday bag.

  Michael Kors

  Fall, Weekend, Night

  "Exclusive: Michael Kors' Lifetime Achievements". Interview with Katie Connor, www.marieclaire.com. September 13, 2010.

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• The coat of the buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders; it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.

  Theodore Parker

  Fashion, Coats, Arms

  Theodore Parker (1872). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man”, p.31

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• you can give it a long name if you like, but I'm an old-fashioned woman and I call it mother-wit, and it's so rare for a man to have it that if he does you write a book about him and call him Sherlock Holmes.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Mother, Book, Writing

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2013). “The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death”, p.408, Open Road Media

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• We need to inject some old-fashioned American values and common-sense, practical thinking into our energy policy.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Thinking, Common Sense, Energy

  "Bloomberg Calls for National Energy Reforms" by Ray Rivera, www.nytimes.com. May 12, 2007.

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• Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned.

  Margaret Ayer Barnes

  Essence, Feelings, Spontaneity

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• Feminists have mocked full-time motherhood as silly and old fashioned. Maybe they're right. I mean, what do moms do really?

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Mom, Silly, Mean

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I eat till, honest, I felt every button on all my clo'es. The folks where we were stayin' were the old-fashioned hospitable kind; they didn't let you off till your jaws struck work and wouldn't wag no more.

  Laura E. Richards

  Buttons, Wags, Honest

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• Fair, rich confusion is all the aim of an old-fashioned flower garden, and the greater the confusion, the richer. You want to come upon mignonnette in unexpected places, and to find sprays of heliotrope in close consultation with your roses, and geraniums sporting their uniforms like gay recruits off duty.

  Anna Bartlett Warner

  Flower, Gay, Garden

  Anna Bartlett Warner (1872). “Gardening by Myself”, p.64

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• Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.

  J. C. Macaulay

  Forgiveness, Long, May

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• I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of, like, His Girl Friday and Bringing Up Baby, those old movies.

  Judy Greer

  Girl, Friday, Baby

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2011.

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• What a relief. I didn't have to check the toilet for anything or the light bulbs or the phone. It was just good old-fashioned friendship.

  Julia Roberts

  Phones, Light, Relief

  "Julia Roberts praises co-star Clive Owen". www.rte.ie. March 9, 2009.

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• I like old-fashioned romance, when the two people sleep in separate beds but still hold hands all night. Their hands rest on a little table between the beds.

  Kaley Cuoco

  Sleep, Night, Hands

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• Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.

  Brian Dennehy

  Believe, Matter, Morality

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• I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy.

  Eric Idle

  Boys, Class, Hats

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• I am convinced that America can be turned around if we will all get serious about the Master's business. It may be late, but it is never too late to do what is right. We need an old-fashioned, God-honoring, Christ-exalting revival to turn American back to God. America can be saved!

  Jerry Falwell

  Religious, Humor, America

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