#fashionable

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong. ↗

— John Major

#blocks #britain #built #communities #destroyed

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#few #popular #today #unfashionable

My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#being smart #brain #doing #exercise #fashionable

A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#everybody #fashionable #literary #made #milieu

I had holes in my jeans well before it was fashionable. ↗

— Kenny Rogers

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To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all. ↗

— Murray Kempton

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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man. ↗

— Stendhal

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Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

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I was a communist, but being left-wing was fashionable. I was no different from thousands of middle-class kids. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#communist #different #fashionable #i #kids

Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable. ↗

— Gavin DeGraw

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