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Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it. -- Conway Twitty
American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century. -- Diane Ravitch
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. -- Jack Kerouac
Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission. -- Colin Powell
I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads. -- Grace Paley
All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use. -- Jared Diamond
I've never been on a fad diet. -- Denise Van Outen
I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad. -- Larry Niven
I've probably tried every fad diet in the world. -- Jenna Ushkowitz
Science goes through fads, and there are big ups and crashes. -- Eric Betzig
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
Working in the entertainment industry exposes me to every current cosmetic fad. -- Connie Sellecca
Good style - regardless of fads - means the thing that suits your body. -- Natalie Dormer
Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage. -- Charlie Chaplin
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
In spite of food fads, fitness programs, and health concerns, we must never lose sight of a beautifully conceived meal. -- Julia Child
You go through these little phases and fads, and it never turns out the way you think it's going to turn out. -- Will Sergeant
My search for ways to improve my touch has never ended. We players tried a lot of different things and compared notes. Little fads would set in. -- Arnold Palmer
I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
We're very good in America at talking about stuff, often stuff to buy. We tend to talk about our iPods. We tend to talk about cars or new fads. -- Milton Glaser
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
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
Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation. -- Greil Marcus
Google is in a position where it doesn't even have to strive to become a hip, conscious choice. Brands are temporary fads. Functionality is forever. Google just has to 'be,' and everyone will end up there sooner or later. -- Douglas Rushkoff
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
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
As a recording engineer - someone who is deeply embroiled in the process of making records every day - you see trends and fads run through the social organization of the population of musicians in the same way that they would run through a high school. -- Steve Albini
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
When I buy clothes, I like to buy them in outfits so I know they go together. I like a very simple, natural style. I never like to be the attention getter; I like to come under the radar and be cool about my look, very classic and stylish. I'm not into fads. -- Rena Sofer
The ancients waited for cherry blossoms, grieved when they were gone, and lamented their passing in countless poems. How very ordinary the poems had seemed to Sachiko when she read them as a girl, but now she knew, as well as one could know, that grieving over fallen cherry blossoms was more than a fad or convention. -- Junichiro Tanizaki
I don't diet, I don't do fads, I've just decided to not eat carbs. So no more bread and pasta for the month. I can't live without chocolate, though. I've always got a bar in my handbag. It has to be 72%. Any less and it's too sweet, any more and it's inedible. Like I said, I'm very particular. -- Nancy Meyers
Like all fads, corporate governance has its zealots -- Conrad Black
I don't really chase trends and fads because they are fleeting. -- Eric Benet
The Lord's truth is not altered by fads, trends or public opinion. -- David A. Bednar
Marketing has long known how to exploit fads and how to develop trends. -- Geoffrey Moore
Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others. -- Bill Brandt
Eagerly pursuing all the latest fads and trends cause he's a dedicated follower of fashion. -- Ray Davies
Barbie's one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race. -- Connie Willis
To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever. -- Alan Jackson
We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy. -- Jimmy Carter
Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising. -- Edward Abbey
Humans have a strong desire to be part of a group. That desire makes us susceptible to fads, fashions, and idea contagions. -- Michael Mauboussin
Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated mind. -- Walter Lippmann
Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself? -- Connie Willis
Down through the years certain fads of slang had come and gone, and their vestiges could be found in Janie's and Mabel's conversation, like mastodon bones in a swamp. -- Dolores Hitchens
Education, like everything else, goes in fads, and has the normal human tendency to put up with something bad for just so long, and then rush to the other extreme. -- Anthony Standen
Publicly, they claim to be thrilled to have the opportunity to engage directly with their customers; privately, they suspect, maybe even fervently hope, that Facebook and its spawn are fads. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last. -- Charles Bukowski
You shouldn't be looking for the secret to making people follow fads, you should be looking for the secret to making them think for themselves. Because that's what science is all about. -- Connie Willis
In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than as the fundaments upon which the devout build their lives. -- Stephen L. Carter
Singleton has an almost uncanny ability to resist being caught up in the fads and fancies of the moment. Like most great innovators [and investors! - Ed.], Henry Singleton is supremely indifferent to criticism. -- Robert J. Flaherty
The trendy management fads concentrate on antecedents, .. but the only thing that makes what you do (before a behavior) effective is its consistent pairing with a consequence. Antecedents get us going. Consequences keep us going. -- Aubrey Daniels

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