Outdated Quotes

• Adults are just outdated children.

  Dr. Seuss

  Children, Silly, Adults

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• A new way of thinking has become the necessary condition for responsible living and acting. If we maintain obsolete values and beliefs, a fragmented consciousness and self-centered spirit, we will continue to hold onto outdated goals and behaviors.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Self, Goal

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• There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents a nation, it is illustrated literature, filmed radio. These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities.

  Jean-Jacques Annaud

  Football, Team, Reality

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• Biology is a software process. Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells, each governed by this process. You and I are walking around with outdated software running in our bodies, which evolved in a very different era.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Running, Cells, Different

  "Google's Ray Kurzweil on the quest to live forever". Interview with Kate Lunau, www.macleans.ca. October 14, 2013.

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• I use technology for communication, but I don't have a Blackberry or an iPhone. I use an outdated cell phone, but I'm fine with it.

  Nicolas Cage

  Communication, Technology, Iphone

  "Interview with Nicolas Cage from "G-Force"". Interview with Julie Bonner, www.alloy.com. December 8, 2009.

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• There are countries that send us garbage. There are countries that send us their outdated technology as their cooperation. With Fidel [Castro] it is totally different. Fidel is the first and the best one to stand for peace in the world denouncing the interventionist policies of the U.S.

  Evo Morales

  Country, Technology, Different

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. September 22, 2010.

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• I started asking friends, my white friends around, I said, "What's something that you think all Asians have in common?" They almost always immediately said, "Slanted eyes." I thought that's really interesting. No. 1, it simply isn't true. Not all Asian Americans have slanted eyes, and of course, Asians aren't the only ethnic identities to have them. No. 2, we could talk about our slant on life and what it's like to be people of color, while at the same time, using this outdated and obscure racial slur, and turning it on its head.

  Simon Tam

  Eye, Thinking, Color

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Synergy is the VCR of media right now - discredited, outdated and left behind.

  David Zinczenko

  Media, Vcr, Synergy

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• I don't want to pierce anything. I think it's outdated. Belly rings and all are, like, old.

  Britney Spears

  Thinking, Want, Belly

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• I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what's appropriate or attractive.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Self, People, Cheese

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• I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.

  Dalai Lama

  Kings, Believe, Leader

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• The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners and losers, and to provide favors in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions and loopholes. It simplifies the code dramatically: 9% business flat tax, 9% personal flat tax, 9% sales tax.

  Herman Cain

  Special, Favors, Loser

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• How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?

  Robert Plant

  Flower, Essence, Desire

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• I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Silly, Thinking, Married

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

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• The question remains: which brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change, and which will become casualties of their own outdated thinking?

  Simon Mainwaring

  Thinking, Creating, Pillars

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• A product is something made in a factory; a brand is something that is bought by the customer. A product can be copied by a competitor; a brand is unique. A product can be quickly outdated; a successful brand is timeless.

  Stephen King

  Successful, Unique, Timeless

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• The practice of thrift is not outdated. We must discipline ourselves to live within our incomes even if it means going without or making do. The wise person can distinguish...between basic needs and extravagant wants. Some find budgeting extremely painful, but I promise you, it is never fatal.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Wise, Mean, Practice

  Marvin J. Ashton (1982). “Ye Are My Friends”, Shadow Mountain

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• We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution

  Harold Wilson

  Eugenics, Revolution, Socialism

  Speech at Labour Party conference on October 01, 1963. "Labour Party Annual Conference Report, 1963", pp. 139-140, 1963.

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• At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look as outdated as George Wallace standing on the school steps keeping James Hood from entering the University of Alabama because he was black.

  George Clooney

  School, Gay, Issues

  "George Clooney Slams Prop 8". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2008.

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• Why so much interest in Uganda? Why are American conservatives lobbing for hate? The answer is that they feel they have lost the culture war here at home and are exporting their outdated ideas to the developing world.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Hate, War, Home

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale ecological destruction. Half of humanity goes to bed hungry because of all the realistic leaders in the world. I tell people who call me 'unrealistic' to show me what their realism has done. Realism is an outdated, overplayed and wholly exaggerated concept.

  Satish Kumar

  War, People, Leader

  "Soul man" by John Vidal, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2008.

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• The urge to break with a tradition is only appropriate when you're dealing with an outdated, troublesome tradition: I never really thought about that because I take the old-fashioned approach of equating tradition with value (which may be a failing). But whatever the case, positive tradition can also provoke opposition if it's too powerful, too overwhelming, too demanding. That would basically be about the human side of wanting to hold your own.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Powerful, May

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• What it means among other things is the more we learn about the nature of the universe, the nature of creation...if we're not updating what we mean by God...what we mean by the gospel, we're going to have outdated, misleading and actually trivial understandings of those.

  Michael Dowd

  Mean, Understanding, Creation

  "Mental Off-Roading Radio With Doug Pagitt And Michael Dowd". Interview with Doug Pagitt, John Musick, apprising.org. November 15, 2010.

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• The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom, decrepit preachers of carrion and rot! What do they have: gray heads, the golden mean, the most abject and philistine giftlessness, envious equality, equality without personal dignity, equality as understood by a lackey or a Frenchman of the year ninety-three...And scoundrells, above all, scoundrels, scoundrels everywhere!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Live Life, Mean, Years

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• Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no outdated ban should be keeping small business owners from collecting the same interest their money could earn if it were held by an individual.

  Sue Kelly

  Jobs, Corny, Small Business

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