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• ... there hasn't been a serious life-style trend since the couch potato was sighted, in about 1986, on one of its rare forays to the video store. Cocooning remains a significant mass enterprise, encouraged by the availability of five hundred new cable channels and microwavable popcorn.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Availability, Style, Popcorn

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• It's silly for me to raise expectations too much, but I think I'm right on the basic trend, which is shifting power to consumers.

  Steve Case

  Silly, Thinking, Expectations

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• I think it is more important to tell a story rather than follow any trend; that is a less bold way to go. If you do that [follow trends] you are just trying to ride on the coat tails of someone else's success.

  Clint Eastwood

  Thinking, Important, Trying

  "Changeling - Clint Eastwood interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I just don't want to copy the current trends or do movies for teenagers. I want people to get more out of movies.

  Clint Eastwood

  Teenager, People, Want

  "Gran Torino - Clint Eastwood interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• California ... is the place that sets the trends and establishes the values for the rest of the country; like a slow ooze, California culture spreads eastward across the land.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Country, Land, California

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• If we were to make no better use of victory than to countenance existing trends in this direction, only too visible before 1939, we might indeed find that we have defeated National Socialism merely to create a world of many national socialisms, differing in detail, but all equally totalitarian, nationalistic, and in recurrent conflict with each other.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Victory, Might, Details

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• We've taken disturbances and fluctuations and averaged them together to give us comfortable statistics. Our training has been to look for big numbers, important trends, major variances. Yet it is the slight variations - soft-spoken, even whispered at first - that we need to encourage.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Change, Taken, Numbers

  Margaret J. Wheatley (1994). “Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe”, Berrett-Koehler Pub

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• There appears to be a disturbing trend in this nation to try to force single moms to choose between their children and their careers. If they take their careers seriously, they are labeled as bad mothers. If they spend time with their children, they are labeled as people who can't be serious about careers outside the home. This is a sexist double standard. No such guilt trip is imposed on men, who are generally not forced to choose between their children and their jobs.

  Gloria Allred

  Mom, Mother, Jobs

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• Perhaps the most promising trend in our thinking about leadership is the growing conviction that the purposes of the group are best served when the leader helps followers develop their own initiative, strengthens them in the use of their own judgment, enables them to grow, and to become better contributors.

  John W. Gardner

  Thinking, Leader, Groups

  JOHN W. GARDNER (1986). “LEADERSHIP PAPERS/3: THE HEART OF THE MATTER LEADER-CONSTITUENT INTERACTION”

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• One of the most striking trends, since at least the 1960's, has been for employment in services to grow far more rapidly than employment in manufacturing. It is this trend that has led to the view that developed economies have become de-industrialized and that they are now effectively service economies.

  Peter Dicken

  Views, Employment, Economy

  "Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy". Book by Peter Dicken, 1986.

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• We're going to reverse a trend that is killing most families in this country, and that is they're having to go in their pocket for more and more money for health care every year.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Years, Pockets

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I believe in helping the planet survive, and that includes reaching out to help some of the disappearing creatures whose habitats we're destroying. It's up to us to somehow reverse that trend. I don't know how we'll achieve it, but we need to.

  Morgan Freeman

  Believe, Needs, Habitat

  "Morgan Freeman–born to be Morgan". Interview with Kam Williams, www.philasun.com. April 11, 2011.

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• I'm really not a trend promoter because I feel that people push trends on people they shouldn't.

  Tim Gunn

  People, Feels, Promoters

  "Interview: Tim Gunn of ‘Project Runway’". Q&A session, www.fanbolt.com. March 15, 2010.

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• All the magazines contradict each other because it is so diverse. Know what you like, know what looks good on you and keep doing it, no reason to chase trends.

  Tim Gunn

  Looks, Magazines, Reason

  Source: www.fanbolt.com

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• When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them. This dystopian trend picks up on that little part of your life where everything feels really extreme and it honors that part of your life and says, "Yeah. It is the end of the world. Look at it."

  Veronica Roth

  Teenager, Silly, Thinking

  "Interview: Veronica Roth on her book 'Insurgent' and feminism". "Jacket Copy", latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 30, 2012.

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• The market is like a machine that needs to be constantly excited. It needs to constantly produce wealth and more excitement. There are some leading players who are always there before everyone else, and they set market trends, they make people safe about the excitement. Of course, those who buy it first are the first to drop it. It's an ongoing game.

  Maurizio Cattelan

  Player, Games, People

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• Women lead in ways different from men's. Men, I think, have been programmed to give orders. Women have been programmed to motivate people, to educate them, to bring out the best in them. Ours is a less authoritarian leadership. I think women tend to play hardball less often. This is the trend of office politics anyway: the days of warring factions are over. We're talking now in terms of cooperation, and I think that is the game women play best.

  Muriel Fox

  Leadership, Men, Thinking

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• To every trend there is a counter-trend. There are a number of pendulums operating and each creates new business opportunities.

  Patrick Dixon

  Opportunity, Numbers, Pendulums

  "Futurewise". Book by David Perkins, 1998.

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• While political and cultural factors are important as explanations for differences in national technology policy and industrial practices, emergent trends in science, engineering and management are leading to new paradigms for high-technology innovation in both Japan and the United States.

  Lewis M. Branscomb

  Technology, Japan, Engineering

  Lewis M. Branscomb, Fumio Kodama (1993). “Japanese innovation strategy: technical support for business visions”, University Press of America

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• All American and Israeli goods and products should be boycotted in a way that undermines American and Israeli interests so as to act as deterrence to their war against Muslims and Islam that is being waged under the pretence of fighting terrorism. This boycott should become an overwhelming trend that makes these two states feel that their economies are in a real and actual danger.

  Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

  Real, War, Fighting

  "Boycott of Israeli and US companies gaining momentum" by Shatha Khalil and Abdul Adil, archive.muslimnews.co.uk. June 28, 2002.

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• Metallica lives in a little bubble. We just do our own thing. We're not part of any trends or waves or fads. We can just do our own thing, all the time. It's a great luxury. I don't think we were really appreciative of it until recently, and really understood that it is what keeps us alive. It's great to be able to have the freedom to run around and do all this crazy stuff, and at all cost, avoid making another record, just to piss our managers off.

  Lars Ulrich

  Running, Crazy, Thinking

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• I never liked the philosophy that you can have everything and be everything and that something is wrong if you don't want that. I'm terrible at multitasking and find it hard to believe that no one protests this general trend of using the rhetoric of self actualization to sell you faster and faster phones and computers, BlackBerrys, etc.

  Elaine Equi

  Philosophy, Believe, Phones

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Our early 21st century civilization is in trouble. We need not go beyond the world food economy to see this. Over the last few decades we have created a food production bubble-one based on environmental trends that cannot be sustained, including overpumping aquifers, overplowing land, and overloading the atmosphere with carbon dioxide.

  Lester R. Brown

  Aquifers, Land, Civilization

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• Liberals pretend to believe that when two random hoodlums kill a gay man in Oklahoma, it's evidence of a national trend, but when a million people buy a book, it proves absolutely nothing about the book-buying public.

  Ann Coulter

  Believe, Book, Gay

  Ann Coulter (2003). “Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right”, p.131, Crown Forum

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• Every season has its lipstick trend, and just because your perfect color is a pinky beige, that doesn't mean you can't wear deep burgundy.

  Bobbi Brown

  Mean, Color, Perfect

  "Insiders' Guide: How To Find The Best Lip Color" by Susan Cernek, www.glamour.com. October 20, 2008.

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