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• I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western.

  Jensen Ackles

  Gun, Texas, Western

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• Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book’s full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red Sea. What’s that if it’s not good old-fashioned magic? Want a little water into wine? No trouble! How about raising the dead man Lazarus? Just say the word!

  Clive Barker

  Book, Wine, Hypocrite

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• If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much a garden of flowers as of colours and tones, less an old-fashioned flower garden than a colour garden, so to speak, one that achieves an effect not entirely nature's, because it was planted so that only the flowers with matching colours will bloom at the same time, harmonized in an infinite stretch of blue or pink.

  Marcel Proust

  Nature, Flower, Garden

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• We were impelled to remain loyal for a while to the memory of Penny. It was a form of the old fashioned custom of going into mourning. It is not a question of going around with a long face. It is just a question of having a pause between the old and the new. No haste to find a substitute for the one who has given you love for years. Wait, and let fate provide the answer.

  Derek Tangye

  Memories, Fate, Years

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• Old-fashioned, Spirit-filled, Christ-honoring, sin-hating, soul-winning, Bible-preaching. It is the hope of the church. It is the hope of the nation. It is the hope of the world.

  Jack Hyles

  Bible, God, Christian

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• The first expert said he had attention deficit disorder. The second expert said the first was out of order. One said he was autistic, another that he was artistic. One said he had Tourette's syndrome. One said he had Asperger's syndrome. And one said the problem was that his parents had Munchausen syndrome. Still another said all he needed was a good old-fashioned spanking.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Order, Parent, Experts

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• Oh...my...god,"Drew whimpered."Who..." Anubis ignored her (bless him for that) and held out his elbow for me - a sweet old-fashioned gesture. " May I have this dance?" "I suppose," I said,as non committally as I could. I looped my arm through his, and we left the Plastic Bags behind us, all of them muttering,"Oh my god! Oh my god!" No ,actually, I wanted to say. He's my amazingly hot boy god. Find your own.

  Rick Riordan

  Sweet, Boys, Anubis

  Rick Riordan (2012). “The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles Book 3)”, p.70, Penguin UK

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• I've always believed in the old-fashioned way: When you've got scoundrels in office, you vote 'em out.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Office, Ems, Way

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• I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.

  Ang Lee

  Heart, Thinking, Chinese

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• I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)

  Ray Bradbury

  Mean, Math, Men

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• You always hold the key of repentance to unlock the prison door. If they throw the word diversity at you, grab hold of it and say, "I am already diverse, and I intend to stay diverse." If the word is tolerance, grab that one, too, saying, "I expect you to be tolerant of my lifestyle-obedience, integrity, abstinence, repentance." If the word is choice, tell them you choose good, old-fashioned morality.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Integrity, Doors, Keys

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• Suppose you went to your priest and asked for help; he would refer you to the Bible. But if you went the next day to your medical doctor and he referred you to the book of Hippocrates, which was written at about the same time as the Bible, you would think that was old-fashioned.

  John Templeton

  Book, Optimistic, Thinking

  "Sir John's Divine Gamble" by Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. June 1, 1999.

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• We cannot idealize technology. Technology is only and always the reflection of our own imagination, and its uses must be conditioned by our own values. Technology can help cure diseases, but we can prevent a lot of diseases by old-fashioned changes in behavior.

  William J. Clinton

  Science, Reflection, Technology

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1803, Best Books on

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• I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Mother, Children, Father

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• I think they all went too far. Their jeans got too low, their tops got too see-through. Personally, I think that sexy is keeping yourself mysterious. I'm really an old-fashioned girl, and I think I'm totally sexy.

  Stevie Nicks

  Girl, Sexy, Thinking

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• It used to be thought that the events that changed the world were things like big bombs, maniac politicians, huge earthquakes, or vast population movements, but it has now been realized that this is a very old-fashioned view held by people totally out of touch with modern thought. The things that really change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently a storm ravages half of Europe.

  Neil Gaiman

  Butterfly, Views, Europe

  "Good Omens". Book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• I don't really believe in rules, but I do like old-fashioned dating where you don't call the guy until he calls you. I don't think it's like he's got to do this and that's the rule.

  Ashley Tisdale

  Believe, Thinking, Dating

  "Five Questions with Ashley Tisdale". www.seventeen.com. July 31, 2007.

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• I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else. I know that makes me a sap.

  Paula McLain

  Hurt, People, Missing

  Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.245, Ballantine Books

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• There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.

  Robert Breault

  Thankful, Gratitude, Inspirational Christmas

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• the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated to the “nursery,” as shabby or old-fashioned furniture is relegated to the play-room, primarily because the adults do not want it, and do not mind if it is misused.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Children, Fairy Stories, Play

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.348, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.

  Sean O'Casey

  Military, Fighting, Army

  Sean O'Casey (1973). “Sunset and evening star”, Pan

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• The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humor, Loss

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• She believes in something. It is an old-fashioned idea

  Tony Benn

  Believe, Ideas, Politics

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• Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.

  Izaak Walton

  Poetry

  Izaak Walton (1825). “The Complete Angler; Or, Comtemplative Man's Recreation: With Lives of the Authors, and Notes”, p.126

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• No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in old-fashioned, basic concepts like hard work, determination, good planning and perseverance.

  Mia Hamm

  Success, Sports, Perseverance

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