Quotes About Trends

People constantly make pop-culture references. That's why it's called popular culture, because people are aware of it and reference it constantly.

I listen to most everything that's out there because I need to stay aware of what's happening in the industry.

Sometimes I feel like what's hard for fashion designers to do is take looks from off the runway and actually put it into existence, into reality. That's really the hard part.

My hardcover sales are 17% down in books but up 400% in electronics.

What I do know, at least what I think I have learned from my experiences in business, is that when there is a rush for everyone to do the same thing, it becomes more difficult to do. Not easier. Harder.

The fad diets are doing way more harm than good.

I hated the '80s for years, and now I look back and think, actually, there was something really cool about it.

Well, I don't like hats, never wear 'em.

America brought us the baseball cap; it's one of my favorite hats.

For me, it's important to anticipate where fashion is heading.

You seldom hear any young artists in country music.

My mom loves the '80s. I grew up hearing a lot about the '80s.

I don't like fashion. It's very heartless.

'Guitar Hero' was much more about us not innovating in a way that was appealing to audiences. It's not about oversaturating the market.

Hey, I was one of those hip-hop kids who used to hate on things that would become popular.

The mid-90s were really not the high point of fashion for anybody - I had a fashion disaster when I wore heavily sequined clothes which cut my armpits and I bled during the filming of my first movie!

the people who used to ask, "Is it news?" now seem to be asking, "Will it stimulate?" And the change is felt, high and low, throughout the culture.

More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since the social security program began, the payroll tax has increased more than 500 percent.

Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor's heydays in the 1950s.

I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic wellbeing is deteriorating.

On the upswing of an economic cycle, workers, consumers, savers, investors, and entrepreneurs imagine a future that is brighter than the past. On the downswing, they imagine a future dimmer than the past.

I was lucky to start working when German cinema was having an interesting moment. Now the quality is going downhill again because they're insisting on doing comedies. We should know by now that we make good cars but we're not the funniest people.

Strong, not skinny, is now sexy, and long workouts are a thing of the past.

One of the most pervasive and damaging trends we are seeing in the 21st-century workplace is the deliberate misclassification of workers by employers looking to shift responsibility and cut costs.