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• I want people to dance. I want people to feel good. You went to work, you feel bad - come here, feel good, dance. Don't leave the club feeling worse than you did before you got there! That's what music used to be for.

  The-Dream

  People, Feel Good, Feelings

  "The-Dream and Tricky Stewart, Writers of "Umbrella," "Single Ladies" and More, Explain How to Make a Song Good". Interview with Matthew Schnipper, www.gq.com. March 17, 2015.

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• A man has to define himself as a breadwinner, as opposed to thinking that well, women used to be caregivers who also wanted to have careers; men have always had careers, so why shouldn't they also want much more family time?

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Men, Thinking, Careers

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I was a young man, and this is the kind of London it was, but so many people are just not here anymore. Not even Tina [Chow], who was to me absolutely the most important girl of the time. Tina was absolutely the chicest thing, the way she kept herself, the way she moved. You're born like that - you cannot acquire it. All those upper-class girls, people like Catherine Tennant, they used to be there in Chelsea, sitting on the couch. Now Chelsea is full of Russians.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Girl, Men, Class

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• That kind of woman who used to be there at the time is not here any longer. In 10 years, people disappear. But I fantasize still about those kinds of women, and that kind of life that doesn't really exist any longer.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Years, People, Kind

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I used to be a huge fan. "The Simpsons" taught me a lot about filmmaking. It imitates film, but it's drawn, so everything is super clear

  Dagur Kari

  Fans, Taught, Film

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I used to be very unathletic. I was always so gangly and self-conscious about my height. I had convinced myself I was uncoordinated. And as a result, I didn't want to try stuff.

  Geena Davis

  Self, Trying, Want

  "The Conversation With Geena Davis, Leading The Charge On Gender Equity In Entertainment". Interview with Alison Glock, www.espn.com. October 30, 2015.

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• I've been trained in dancing and I used to be quite good, though I am a bit rusty right now. But I could probably brush up in a couple of months. The funny thing is that I actually took classes from Savion Glover, who worked in Happy Feet, when I was a kid. Isn't that wild? I was part of a selected group that was brought into New York from New Jersey (which is where I'm from) to study, every Saturday: ballet, jazz and tap. It was a musical comedy group.

  Brittany Murphy

  New York, Couple, Kids

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be.

  Barack Obama

  Used, Young, Socialist

  "The diplomat-studded and desirable neighborhood the Obamas look set to call home" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2016.

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• Within a month of intense life in the mountains is going through so much, what used to be a period of several years; This is a occupancy for people greedy for life - human life is not enough.

  Jerzy Kukuczka

  Years, People, Mountain

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• I prayed to rediscover my childhood, and it has come back, and I feel that it is just as difficult as it used to be, and that growing older has served no purpose at all.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Childhood, Purpose, Growing

  1910 DieAufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge (translated by Stephen Mitchell inThe Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1989).

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• I realized I was trying to be friends with somebody who I used to be with but who I didn't get along with. I'm really big on that. I need to be friends with everyone that I've ever had a relationship with.

  Fiona Apple

  Trying, Needs, Used

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 4, 2012.

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• I've never thought of myself as being particularly brave - I used to be frightened of the dark when I was small. And I'm not very good with dead rats and things like that. But I face what has to be faced and I hope as best as I'm able.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Dark, Brave, Rats

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• DJs used to be American heroes. No more. Today, being a disk jockey is generally regarded as being slightly more respectable than snatching purses for a living, or robbing graves.

  Larry Lujack

  Hero, Jockeys, Today

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• It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around.

  Giorgio de Chirico

  Clever, Crazy, Today

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• Meat is produced under HACCP plans. Meat and poultry are required to be produced under standard food safety plans and they have been since the mid-'90s, and there are now fewer problems with meat than there used to be. That's on the USDA's side.

  Marion Nestle

  Safety, Poultry, Sides

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Historically, things were moving in a pretty good direction until the Reagan presidency. And then it all got reversed. The Mexico City policy was instituted - the idea of wrecking the environment for this generation's profit and forgetting about our gets got firmly embedded. I'm sad to say the Clinton administration didn't turn it around and the Bush administration, well, I think they're the worst administration we've ever had, and I used to be a Republican.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Moving, Thinking, Cities

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• I used to be married to a pastor, and I had a church for two years. Pastors are just men, too, with a different job description than others. We're all called to bear one another's burdens. We're all called to pray for the sick. They do it on a larger scale, but they're just a man. A lot of women don't think that. Trust me. I know.

  Niecy Nash

  Jobs, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I used to be an architect, so I have a series I am working on with USA Network that I created and am co-writing.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Writing, Usa, Architect

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals!

  Bill Bruford

  Reading, Rocks, Guy

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• I used to be so young, how did I get so old?

  Dan Mangan

  Used, Young

  Song: Basket, Album: Nice, Nice, Very Nice

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• If 'The Wild One' were filmed today, Marlon Brando and the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club would all have to wear helmets. I used to be afraid that when (Hells) Angels became movie stars and Cal the hero of the book, the bikerider would perish on the coffee tables of America. But now I think that this attention doesn't have the strength of reality of the people it aspires to know, and that as long as Harley-Davidsons are manufactured other bikeriders will appear, riding unknown and beautiful through Chicago, into the streets of Cicero.

  Danny Lyon

  Beautiful, Stars, Coffee

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• There are no managers like there used to be managers.

  Richard Manuel

  Used, Managers

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• I used to be a cheerleader, but fighting just seemed more, "me". So I went that route.

  Paige VanZant

  Fighting, Cheerleader, Used

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• Internet becoming accessible everywhere, whether it was Wi-Fi at work, on your cell phone as you traveled. People had it at home with broadband. There was a big change.It used to be people used the Internet primarily at work, because that's where they had a good connection. Now they're using it at home. And the second big change is, they used it not just to get information, but to communicate with one another. And, so, it became not simply an information exchange, but a personal exchange, a communication mechanism.

  Esther Dyson

  Communication, Home, Phones

  "After Banner Decade, Peering in on the Future of Technology". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. January 3, 2010.

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• Bing Crosby and I weren't the types to go around kissing each other. We always had a light jab for each other. One of our stock lines used to be "There's nothing I wouldn't do for Bing, and there's nothing he wouldn't do for me." And that's the way we go through life - doing nothing for each other!

  Bob Hope

  Kissing, Light, Doing Nothing

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

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