Used To Be Quotes - Page 21

• Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Diplomats, France, England

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Used to be in the old days, only the pulp writers wrote like machines. Now everybody is expected to be literary John Henrys. So in that context someone like me is an anomaly.

  Junot Diaz

  Machines, Anomalies, Used

  Interview with Gina Frangello, therumpus.net. September 30, 2012.

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• I enjoy spending time with other awakened people and feeling the shared vibration of that, whereas just fun for its own sake might no longer be quite so enticing as it used to be.

  Arjuna Ardagh

  Fun, People, Feelings

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• My standards are higher than they used to be, I think. They don't necessarily have to make sense, but I certainly work on them a lot harder now -- partly because I do them on the computer, and I print them out and fix them, and print them and fix them over and over again, whereas in the early days I used to just scratch down a few things on a piece of paper.

  Dean Wareham

  Thinking, Scratches, Pieces

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• It used to be, people were afraid to talk about Social Security. Now, I think people should be afraid not to talk about Social Security and start coming up with some solutions.

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, People, Social

  George W. Bush's speech on Social Security in Little Rock, Arkansas, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. February 4, 2005.

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• I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.

  Boris Pasternak

  Thinking, People, Revolutionary

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• But at the same time, in reality, what a difference there is between the world today, and what it used to be! And with the passage of more time, some two or three hundred years, say, people will look back at our own times with horror, or with sneering laughter, because all of our present day life will appear so clumsy, and burdensome, extraordinarily inept and strange. Yes, certainly, what a life it will be then, what a life!

  Anton Chekhov

  Laughter, Reality, Years

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• Barack Obama, you know has a lot of supporters here in America, but he's very popular internationally. It's quite interesting. This is a true story. It was in the paper. Barack Obama is so popular in the African town where his father was born, they've named a beer after him. That's true. Yeah. So next time you're in Africa, sit back, relax, and enjoy a tall, cold Barackelob Light. Good enough. Clearly not as popular a beer as it used to be.

  Conan O'Brien

  Father, Beer, America

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• One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.

  Gabe Newell

  Dog, Australia, Interesting

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

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• I used to be a hairdresser.

  Dee Dee Ramone

  Used, Hairdresser

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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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• 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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• 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 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I'm an advocate of music in schools. It's important to me that music is in as many schools as possible across this country and across the world. I think that it's a lost art form because kids aren't as exposed to it as maybe they used to be, or should be. I was exposed heavily to jazz and that's why I love it.

  Chrisette Michele

  Country, Art, School

  "Chrisette Michele shocked at No. 1 standing". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. May 20, 2009.

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• Since I've been pregnant, I've lost my taste for fast food. I used to be the biggest McDonald's junkie and now I don't like it anymore. I used to be the biggest fast-food connoisseur, and now I've really lost my taste for it.

  Holly Madison

  Mcdonalds, Taste, Fast Food

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• What is an intellectual? In general, someone seriously devoted to what used to be called the “life of the mind”: thinking pursued not instrumentally, for the sake of practical goals, but simply for the sake of knowing and understanding.

  Gary Gutting

  Thinking, Knowing, Goal

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• I'd say that on 'Friends' my character was the guy bouncing around the room. I'm no longer that guy, necessarily, in my life. I used to be. But I'm not now.

  Matthew Perry

  Character, Guy, Rooms

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• I don't run the triathlons anymore like I used to. I do leg work on the machines and do the bike. I'm not as strong as I used to be, but I'm still good.

  Pat Bowlen

  Running, Strong, Machines

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• I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.

  Patricia Velasquez

  Dancer, Acting, Used

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