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Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it. -- Conway Twitty
I'm not interested in fad songs. -- Ryan Tedder
Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage. -- Charlie Chaplin
You actually don't want people thinking your product is cool, because then you're a fad. -- Sean Parker
I'm pretty sure people are going to start writing letters again once the email fad passes. -- Willie Geist
While fad diets might seem like the quick-fix solution to lose weight, they won't help you get healthy in the long run. -- Daphne Oz
Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to it that it stays alive. -- Marla Gibbs
Pomegranate juice has staying power. It's not a fad. Once people have tasted POM Wonderful, they say they are addicted - and it's a good addiction to have. -- Lynda Resnick
It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature. -- Herman Hesse
I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here. -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I think that there was a fad where everyone said, 'I want you to create a signature step for my artist.' The thing is, for me, music creates the step. The artist commands the step, you know? -- Laurieann Gibson
Since social networks gained popularity extremely rapidly, there had been a debate as to whether social media was a fad. There are countless pieces of evidence now proving the contrary, among them the explosion in Twitter growth and Facebook's public listing. -- Ryan Holmes
The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits. -- Bill Gates
Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress. -- Olivia De Havilland
The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior. -- Marc Andreesen
Taking in and blowing out smoke? And now you see girls smoking cigars. It got to be such a fad. Girls on the covers of magazines, smoking cigars. Give me a break. I didn't want to be a part of that. I don't like 'popular.' -- James Coburn
Every crazy fad from the 1800s comes back or they never go away. It's like fashion, like everything's already been invented, and somebody stumbles onto it and people will always, always be looking for an answer for some vague illness they can't get a diagnosis for. -- Mary Roach
Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn't know what they were talking about it. -- Jam Master Jay
During the early days of HootSuite, when social media was still seen as a fad, I made the decision to treat our funding as if it were my personal bank account. That's not to say I blew it on fast cars and fancy dinners. Exactly the opposite. -- Ryan Holmes
When I hear about something allegedly happening in the world I always ask: 'Who is doing it?' Trends break out because they're based on real demographics, like there being fewer nuclear families or more people living alone. If 10 people in Shoreditch are doing it, it's a 10-minute fad. -- Peter York
I'm truly blessed with great genes. I've never done anything drastic in my life, and I can proudly say I haven't tried any of those crazy fad diets, either. I believe in eating right and living healthy. Plus, I love going to the gym, and I enjoy yoga because it streamlines your body. -- Malaika Arora Khan
With communication technology in general, there's a kind of certain critical mass of people. Once you get to 15% of the world's entire population using one communication technology, that's a big deal. It's beyond the theoretical at this point. The people who think it's a fad have probably not been paying that much attention. -- Ben Horowitz
For the vast majority of those who are obese - those with a Body Mass Index over 30 - their size is their choice. They choose to take in more calories than they burn. They choose to take in high fat calories over low-fat ones. They choose to fad diet, if they choose to diet at all. -- John Ridley
A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion. -- Ani DiFranco
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery. -- Camille Paglia
I never wanted to be that fad type of artist. When I looked up to artists, watching TV, I wanted to see somebody. I wanted to touch that person. I wanted to sound like them. I wanted to move like them. That' s what I want my fans to do. So that's why, everything that I do, the music I make, how I dress, it's all based off my lifestyle. -- Tyga
Im not interested in fad songs. -- Ryan Tedder
The internet is just a passing fad. -- Bill Gates
I've never been on a fad diet. -- Denise Van Outen
R&B is not a fad; it's the truth. -- Aretha Franklin
Social media is not a fad because it's human. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
I've probably tried every fad diet in the world. -- Jenna Ushkowitz
Vampire fad just won't die. Makes sense, I guess. -- Demetri Martin
I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad. -- Larry Niven
Caramels are only a fad. Chocolate is a permanent thing. -- Milton S. Hershey
Look at it this way: Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad. -- Peter De Vries
Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad. -- Irving Thalberg
My family thought the fascination with acting was just another fad. -- Sean Bean
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one. -- Barry Commoner
I don't do fad things or diets - they don't work. -- Linda Gray
Working in the entertainment industry exposes me to every current cosmetic fad. -- Connie Sellecca
The doctors are always changing their opinions. They always have some new fad. -- David Lloyd George
And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad. -- Dinah Shore
I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to. -- Robert Sheckley
Don't take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad. -- Mick Jagger
Social Media isn't a fad, it's a fundamental shift in the way we communicate. -- Erik Qualman
When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers. -- Mary Travers
It's the latest trendy thinking by the Ministry of Justice... Restorative justice is a fad. -- Douglas Carswell
Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children. -- Shelby Steele
Every new fad or fashion at once has its denouncers from the pulpit, platform, professor's chair. -- Alice Dunbar Nelson
The new fad thing that's going through America and around the world. It's called global warming. -- Steve Stockman
Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze. -- Alfred Stieglitz
The Jesus Movement had survived the fad phase and was settling down for the long haul. -- Larry Eskridge
I've never done a trendy diet or subscribed to a fashionable health fad in my life. -- Matthew Hussey
My biggest regret is putting my body through fad diets - Atkins, cleanses, the hCG diet. -- Jennie Garth
None of this 'different diets' lark. I can't remember the last time I tried some new fad. -- Kate Winslet
I'm not into fad diets; I'm not into depriving. I like fast food, and I like chocolate. -- Alyssa Sutherland
[Airmail was] an impractical sort of fad, and had no place in the serious job of postal transportation. -- Paul Henderson
Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries; a principle, forever. -- William George Jordan
Flash mobbing may be a fad that passes away, or it may be an indicator of things to come. -- Howard Rheingold
I believe in the power of music. To me, it isn't just a fad. This is a positive thing. -- Eddie Vedder
The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age. -- L. Ron Hubbard
Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I think video games are going to completely take over storytelling in our society. Video games are not a fad... -- Guillermo del Toro
Feminism is not a fad. It's not like Angry Birds. Although it does involve a lot of angry birds. Bad example. -- Bridget Christie
We cannot pursue a classical and Christian education as a fad. We are not purchasing intellectual hula hoops for the kids. -- Douglas Wilson
The fad diets that many Americans are on are perfect if you want to be hungry all the time and miserable. -- Nathan Pritikin
Take your time. Some of these fad diets and quick fixes, they might be quick, but you're going to crash and burn. -- Julianne Hough
Nobody creates a fad. It just happens. People love going along with the idea of a beautiful pig. It's like a conspiracy. -- Jim Henson
This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad. -- Gail Collins
Anyone who says rock 'n' roll is a passing fad or a flash-in-the-pan trend along the music road has rocks in the head. -- Alan Freed
It's wrong to look at what we call 'Enlightenment values' as some fad of the 18th century. It's deeply rooted in ancient history. -- Matthew Stewart
The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage. -- Charlie Chaplin
Your wedding is your red carpet moment, and while brides definitely can take some chances with style, you don't want to look like a fad. -- Reem Acra
Some are skeptical. My mom thought the guitar was going to fizzle out in two weeks, that it was just a fad-and that was in 1958. -- Jeff Beck
This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions. -- Paul Brunton
Miniskirts have become quite a fad. They're even some guys wearing them. Don't laugh, if you had thought to of that, you'd not be here now. -- Bob Hope
Universities have come to realize that online is not a fad. The question is not whether to engage in this area but how to do it. -- Daphne Koller
Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to it that it stays alive... -- Marla Gibbs
It's no longer a fad to be down for the young Black male. Everybody wants to go past. Like the gangster stuff, it just got exploited. -- Tupac Shakur
I don't have a computer. I'm going to wait until that whole fad is over. I was suckered in on the Pet Rock. Not twice, people. -- Kathleen Madigan
If I had a dime for every time I heard someone say that they're tired of a genre (zombies) because it's only a fad, I'd be rich. #DeadRising -- Ace Antonio Hall
The current fad in art, is to shock people or appear 'different'... My goal is to help people find the rays of sunshine in an often dark world. -- Gary Holland
I can't wait for the next fad though, and I predict it's going to be Pennsylvania dutch culture, very Amish. It's going to be bonnets and butter churns. -- Janeane Garofalo
One of the foremost activities of the NSA's FAD, or Foreign Affairs Division, is to pressure or incentivize EU member states to change their laws to enable mass surveillance. -- Edward Snowden
Kelsoism is not accepted by modern scientific economics as a valid and fruitful analysis of the distribution of income but rather it is regarded as an amateurish and cranky fad. -- Paul Samuelson
It's not enough, and so limiting, to teach the simplistic value of a designer's material wear. Give children the gift of values that will last far beyond [a] fad's temporal popularity. -- T.F. Hodge
Bitcoins are not an investment. They are an investment fad that someday could be a real digital currency, but if they continue to behave as they have, they will instead be nothing. -- Kurt Eichenwald
At the time we acquired Viacom, everyone said I had overpaid. But even at today's depressed prices, that investment is worth billions. Everyone was saying MTV was a fad. I knew better. -- Sumner Redstone
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HELPED are those who live in quietness, knowing neither brand name nor fad; they shall live every day as if in eternity, and each moment shall be as full as it is long. -- Alice Walker
Instruct regulators to look for the newest fad in the industry and examine it with great care. The next mistake will be a new way to make a loan that will not be repaid. -- L. William Seidman
I do worry about how newspapers respond to falling circulation figures. I'm not sure that the answer is for newspapers to try to cater to whatever seems to be the fad of the day. -- Ben Bradlee
Black coffee is the latest fad I have picked up. Then there are my endless cups of chai! I'm trying to cut down and keep it to no more than three cups a day. -- Vidya Balan
One of the biggest misconceptions is that carbs are bad. It's a fad right now. Full disclosure: I'm sponsored by Barilla. But I've always been free about saying I love carbs, including pasta, in moderation. -- Mikaela Shiffrin
Wabi means spare, impoverished; simple and functional. It connotes a transcendence of fad and fashion. The spirit of wabi imbues all the Zen arts, from calligraphy to karate, from the tea ceremony to Zen archery. -- Shunryu Suzuki

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