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  • Adults are just outdated children. -- Dr. Seuss
  • Synergy is the VCR of media right now - discredited, outdated and left behind. -- David Zinczenko
  • I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world. -- Dalai Lama
  • I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is. -- Madonna Ciccone
  • 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brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change, and which will become casualties of their own outdated thinking?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
  • How can you consider flower power outdated?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 How could it become outdated?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
  • 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me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what's appropriate or attractive.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
  • The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners and losers, and to provide favors in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions and loopholes.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
  • A product can be quickly outdated, but a successful brand is timeless. -- Stephen King
  • Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin. -- J. C. Macaulay
  • I don't want to pierce anything. I think it's outdated. Belly rings and all are, like, old. -- Britney Spears
  • The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides. -- Iain Banks
  • Always be humble enough to learn something new. Otherwise, it's only a matter of time before your knowledge becomes outdated. -- Clinton Anderson
  • Sometimes when you make good stuff and you love it, it gets outdated sometimes, because you've held on to it so long, you may not like it like you used to. -- Big Sean
  • Even to me the issue of "stay small, sweet, quiet, and modest" sounds like an outdated problem, but the truth is that women still run into those demands whenever we find and use our voices. -- Brene Brown
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Our world and our lives have become increasingly interdependent, so when our neighbour is harmed, it affects us too. Therefore we have to abandon outdated notions of 'them' and 'us' and think of our world much more in terms of a great 'US', a greater human family. -- Dalai Lama
  • We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services is outdated, our cities are detrimental to our health, chaotic and a tremendous waste of resource, and most of all our politics and values no longer serve us. -- Jacque Fresco
  • Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like me, who are not inclined to suffer Nazis gladly and feel only contempt for the cowardly flag-suckers who would gladly give up their outdated freedom to live for the mess of pottage they have been conned into believing will be freedom from fear. -- Hunter S. Thompson
  • 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
  • It is not necessary to believe in God to be a good person. In a way, the traditional notion of God is outdated. One can be spiritual but not religious. It is not necessary to go to church ... for many, nature can be a church. Some of the best people in history did not believe in God, while some of the worst deeds were done in his name. -- Pope Francis
  • At one time, MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. -- Prince
  • Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs. -- Barack Obama
  • 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
  • If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects. -- Adam McKay
  • I don't think that any person can fix FEMA. I think FEMA needs a total restructuring. I think it needs to be taken from scratch and redone. The regulations are outdated; the rules are outdated. -- Ray Nagin
  • I'm sure some people will say, 'Why do this?' And my response is, 'Why wouldn't you?' The film business in general is using a model that is outdated and, worse than that, inefficient. -- Steven Soderbergh
  • 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
  • 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
  • Look at the international bodies that came out of U.N. - international, publicly funded bodies that neither you or I know their names, because they are completely outdated and still publicly funded because there are no sunset clauses. -- Mo Ibrahim
  • 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
  • In tough times, some of us see protecting the climate as a luxury, but that's an outdated 20th-century worldview from a time when we thought industrialization was the end goal, waste was growth, and wealth meant a thick haze of air pollution. -- Alex Steffen
  • You know, I was really privileged to meet Woody Allen, who is now a filmmaker, let's be honest. He's also an actor. And he's classic. And because I have no conception of what classic fashion is now, I respond to his slightly outdated sensibilities. -- Ezra Miller
  • Oh, I collect facts and quotes when I can't write, and I can't write most of the time. I do a little chance operation sometimes where I flip through outdated reference books to see if anything will strike me as beautiful or momentous. Library roulette, I call it. -- Jenny Offill
  • There is an outdated belief that girls are not as good at science and math subjects as boys. But according to the report 'Generation STEM,' high school girls earn more math and science credits than boys do, and their GPAs, aggregated across math and science classes, are higher than boys'. -- Padmasree Warrior
  • Many of us are experiencing a phase of change, shedding outdated patterns and liberating ourselves from the old by moving on to the new. The year 2012 is an important one for mankind, a pivotal year. The potential for this exists in the mere fact that the majority of us are yearning for change. -- Shari Arison
  • The world will try to make you think that being good is outdated and old-fashioned and that popularity comes from breaking the rules and lowering your standards. Don't buy into that way of thinking. As you watch TV or read magazines, you might be made to feel abnormal when, really, you are the one who has it figured out. -- Margaret D. Nadauld
  • Look, we want freedom and we want liberty in this country. But we've also got to have the guts to stand up and run a tight ship in America. Morality is now a word that many people consider very square and outdated. But if we don't stand up for it, we deserve what we will get in the end - unprincipled anarchy. -- Cliff Robertson
  • Life was so much simpler in pre-video days when everyone refused invitations because the 'Forsyte Saga' was on. Now we all just have a long list of unwatched shows, all of which, it seems, our friends are raving about. I feel as outdated as if I wore a Fair Isle sweater, ate Pot Noodle and had a two-bar electric fire in the sitting room. -- Simon Hoggart
  • Baby Boomers becoming Republicans while Dems become outdated. -- Newt Gingrich
  • Avoid your comfort zone - it's probably outdated anyway. -- Donald Trump
  • If we stay in one place, we will become outdated -- Satoru Iwata
  • The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated. -- Salman Rushdie
  • Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated. -- Max Weber
  • We've been living under outdated immigration rules from decades ago. They're decades and decades old. -- Donald Trump
  • There is a reason it is called fossil fuel-it is an outdated method of getting power. -- Alexandra Paul
  • Wisdom lies not in possessing knowledge - which quickly becomes outdated - but in perpetually seeking it. -- Paul Johnson
  • The church that will not give up will be outdated and passed by, quicker than they realize. -- John C. Maxwell
  • Did you get the new iPhone yet? The iPhone that I have is outdated. It has two pieces and a hand crank. -- David Letterman
  • Make sure you're doing impressions of people that are still relevant, and that everyone knows. Red Skelton impressions are a little outdated. -- Gabriel Iglesias
  • Having 'best friends' is - at least for me - as outdated and small-minded a concept as the idea of 'Sunday best clothes.' -- Julie Burchill
  • Socialists have always spent much of their time seeking new titles for their beliefs, because the old versions so quickly become outdated and discredited. -- Margaret Thatcher
  • In today's world of technology we should no longer be using outdated paper processes to accomplish tasks such as requisitions, reports, approvals, and purchase orders -- Mark Cuban
  • Our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language -- Marc Prensky
  • Your desires will source you with the inspiration to release your outdated beliefs and let go of whatever behavior is keeping you stuck in the past. -- Debbie Ford
  • As long as it's not an easy, outdated stereotype and it comes from an interesting or emotionally driven place, then anyone can be made fun of. -- Nick Kroll
  • So, there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil Librarians." -- Brandon Sanderson
  • So, there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil Librarians. -- Brandon Sanderson
  • It's quite fashionable to say that the education system's broken ? it's not broken, it's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore. It's outdated. -- Sugata Mitra
  • If one of our fellow citizens can be executed with so much doubt surrounding his guilt, then the death penalty system in our country is unjust and outdated. -- Jimmy Carter
  • Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn't been born yet. It's difficult. -- Agnes Denes
  • I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it's so outdated. -- Michael Bloomberg
  • We, as a country, have not seen a significant change in immigration policy in nearly two decades, even though all Americans agree that current immigration policy is outdated and malfunctioning. -- Raul Grijalva
  • Nowadays you can no longer let yourself be indoctrinated - the world is changing so fast! Even what you wanted twenty years ago is no longer relevant today; it's outdated. -- Indira Gandhi
  • We have been using foreign affairs ministries to address security issues, but this practice is outdated. It's time to assign the handling of regional security to national organizations and expert institutions. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
  • I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation. -- Jennifer Granholm
  • Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy, but outdated bureaucracy and red tape have stifled competition and raised costs. As a result, today more than 45 million are without any health coverage. -- John Shadegg
  • A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time. -- Marya Mannes
  • Selling MP3s or physical copies, it's still cool, but I think it's slowly becoming outdated to where people just want to build a culture. The culture's what you're selling at this point. -- Diplo
  • As times change, so do the way each generation see the world. It is rather like the way our generation came to see our grandparents' views on the Empire and colonies as outdated. -- Douglas Alexander
  • I dont think that any person can fix FEMA. I think FEMA needs a total restructuring. I think it needs to be taken from scratch and redone. The regulations are outdated; the rules are outdated. -- Ray Nagin
  • Even to me the issue of "stay small, sweet, quiet, and modest" sounds like an outdated problem, but the truth is that women still run into those demands whenever we find and use our voices. -- Brene Brown
  • We know from the truths of evolution and ecology that we are all related and interdependent. Anthropomorphism (crediting animals with human emotions and traits) is, however, outdated. Rather we know that we are like animals. -- Michael Fox
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