Used To Be Quotes

• Revolution used to be cool, but now it's out of fashion.

  Ray Davies

  Fashion, Art, Media

  Song: Young Conservatives

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• Well, I hope you like it here, Leo. It used to be .......really nice.

  Rick Riordan

  Nice, You Like It, Used

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• We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Used, Deals, Marcos

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• I used to be ashamed And now I am proud. The world once was black And now it is bright. I used to walk head bent And now I stand up tall. I used to have dreams But now I have hope.

  Judith McNaught

  Dream, Black, World

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• I think that business leaders today have to be more rounded than they used to be, they have to be completely multi-functional and fast-moving.

  Stuart Rose

  Moving, Thinking, Leader

  "Sir Stuart Rose on the changing role of business leaders" by Stuart Rose, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2012.

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• Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Cities, Edinburgh, Used

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• There is not a lot that keeps me glued to the radio as I used to be.

  Boz Scaggs

  Radio, Used

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• I wish that the circuses that were around now felt like they did then. They're not quite as elegant or as magical as they used to be. There was something about the old tent shows, the Big Top, the canvas, the lights, the sawdust, the hay and the animals that's just missing now. Now, it's all urbanized and maybe a little garish.

  Francis Lawrence

  Animal, Light, Missing

  "Reese Witherspoon and Director Francis Lawrence Interview Water for Elephants". Press Conference, collider.com. April 19, 2011.

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• I have a short temper - I think it's part of the Celtic background. I used to be a lot more angry, but I was quite discreet with it.

  Julian Lennon

  Thinking, Used, Celtic

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Why am I the way I am? Well, I used to be different.

  Tom Sizemore

  Different, Way, Used

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• It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.

  Aaron Tveit

  Stage Actors, Television, Lines

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• I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville.

  Lionel Richie

  Nashville, Used, Music Business

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• If we have a hope of really understanding our place in nature and of carving out a place for ourselves that is sustainable, it's primarily because of the new level of communication. It used to be, 'What you don't have in your mind, you have on your shelf.' But now we have the Web.

  Sylvia Earle

  Nature, Communication, Understanding

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• You have to really swallow your pride and admit that you want to make a comeback. And that means that you weren't at your best and I feel like I stopped being who I needed to be. When I started making this record "Born Villain", I didn't want to be what I used to be but I certainly didn't want to be what I was at the time. I knew that I was supposed to be something better then what I was. I feel that I am close to being what I'm supposed to be and am enjoying what I'm doing here.

  Marilyn Manson

  Mean, Pride, Records

  Source: archive.azcentral.com

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• The relationship between WordPress and Tumblr has always been pretty friendly: Tumblr's own blog used to be on WP, WordPress.com supports Tumblr as a Publicize option alongside Twitter and Facebook, our Akismet team sends them daily emails of splogs on the service, and there's healthy import and export traffic both ways.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Team, Support, Healthy

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• It used to be in the Senate that if you were filibustering, you stood up, there was a physical dimension to it, that you when you became exhausted, you'd have to leave the floor. That was the idea of the filibuster.

  Tom Udall

  Ideas, Dimensions, Exhausted

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.nbcnews.com. December 15, 2010.

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• The American movie, in part because America's a melting pot, the cultural hodgepodge that America makes, generates movies that have appeal across all international boundaries. And that's really not true for most domestic film industries. It's no longer true of France and Italy, less true than it used to be of the U.K.

  Howard Stringer

  America, Melting, France

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• The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.

  Charles M. Vest

  Government, Shifting, Cost

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero.

  Lamorne Morris

  Mother, Hero, Mean

  "Out to Lunch With: Lamorne Morris, Who Spills on His Bad Church Behavior and Worst Date Ever" by Megan Angelo, www.glamour.com. April 25, 2012.

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• I love macaroni and cheese. I could eat it every meal of the day. It used to be sushi, but these days I cannot stop eating mac and cheese. I haven't had it from a box in a long time, but I'll make it homemade style with four types of cheeses, lots of milk, maybe a little ketchup. I don't know, I'm crazy like that.

  Cobie Smulders

  Crazy, Long, Style

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• If you are not as happy as you used to be, chances are you are not meditating properly. You may be trying to skip steps. You are using power incorrectly. Your motives are not pure. You don't vibrate quickly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Trying

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• I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was a really nice job to have, but only a tiny amount of people heard those songs, and I didn't make a living from it, and eventually I begged my parents to let me move back into my room.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Jobs, Nice

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I used to be a pre-industrial writer: thousands of words in a spurt and then a few days off. But as I get older, I've switched to a mode best described as 'slow and steady wins the race.' Basically, I write during the same four hours every day, after breakfast and the all-important coffee, generally in the same room and wearing the same pajamas.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Coffee, Writing, Winning

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• The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.

  Richard Linklater

  Interesting, Gone, Able

  ""You can't hold back the human spirit"". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

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