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• There comes a point at which you stop giving things up. That is what i won't give up. None of it will i give up, for my beautiful sister Ivy who lies in bed. Ivy who used to be alive. Ivy who used to be. Ivy who used. Ivy who.
  Ivy-who-is-not-me.
  Not me. Not me. Not me.

  Alison McGhee

  Beautiful, Giving Up, Lying

  Alison McGhee (2013). “All Rivers Flow to the Sea”, p.155, Candlewick Press

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• It’s our generation that is witnessing the end of Western predominance. The average American used to be more than 20 times richer than the average Chinese. Now it’s just five times, and soon it will be 2.5 times.

  Niall Ferguson

  Our Generation, Average, Chinese

  "The 6 killer apps of prosperity". Ted Talks, www.ted.com. July, 2011.

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• Many jazz musicians affect a misunderstood-genius air when they play, which alienates the audience and breaks down the communications of the music. A musician's responsibility is to get as much of his art across as possible. Musicians used to be kept when only the rich could afford art, but now practically everyone can afford radios, stereo equipment, concert tickets, etc. A musician must learn to communicate to survive.

  Gabor Szabo

  Music, Art, Communication

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• My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son's perspective.

  Rufus Sewell

  Attitude, Selfish, Son

  "Rufus Sewell: 'Hollywood is my domestic idyll'" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2013.

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• I used to be an atheist, until I realized I had nothing to shout during blowjobs. Oh Random Chance! Oh Random Chance! just doesn't cut it….

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Atheist, Cutting, Random Chance

  DragonCon, 2000.

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• Since things are moving faster and faster, we cannot afford the amount of stupidity that we used to be able to tolerate.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Moving, Stupidity, Able

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• I used to be someone who would not even tread on an ant. But this is a war for honor and self-defense. A 100 percent elimination policy (by Ankara of the Kurds) has forced me to defense and it has become a glorious defense of a people.

  Abdullah Ocalan

  War, Self, People

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• I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of the stage and whacked 'em on the side of the head.

  Dick Dale

  Mean, Two Sides, Ems

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• Fulfillment leaves an empty space where longing used to be.

  Laurie Colwin

  Space, Longing, Empty

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• One day I was living silently in a personal hell, without anyone to tell what I felt, without even knowing that the feelings I had were possible to have; and then one day I was not living like that at all. I had begun to see the past like this: there is a line; you can draw it yourself, or sometimes it gets drawn for you; either way, there it is, your past, a collection of people you used to be and things you used to do. Your past is the person you no longer are, the situations you are no longer in.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Past, Knowing, People

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• There used to be this guy called Vinny who worked on the floor of the stock exchange, said one big investor who had observed the market for a long time. After the markets closed Vinny would get into his Cadillac and drive out to his big house in Long Island. Now there is the guy called Vladimir who gets into his jet and flies to his estate in Aspen for the weekend. I used to worry a little about Vinny. Now I worry a lot about Vladimir

  Michael Lewis

  Weekend, Islands, Long

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• If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.

  Maya Lin

  Forget, Sensitive, Used

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• We used to be calorie poor and now the problem is obesity. We used to be data poor, now the problem is data obesity.

  Hal Varian

  Data, Problem, Obesity

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• Used to be marketing was viewed as the people with crayons and scissors who did creative work. Now it's seen as central to driving growth.

  Jim Speros

  People, Creative, Growth

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• In most societies birth has been an experience in whichwomen draw together to help each other and reinforce bonds in the community. Now that eradication of pain with effective anesthesia is often the only issue in any discussion of birththe sacramental and social elements which used to be central to women's experience of birthseem, for an increasing proportion of women, to be completely irrelevant.

  Sheila Kitzinger

  Pain, Issues, Community

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• It used to be that death and taxes alone were inevitable. Now there's shipping and handling.

  Bert Murray

  Shipping, Used, Inevitable

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• We're willing to move pretty far on this issue, we're much more tolerant than we used to be, but don't mix it up with religion and God.

  Alan Wolfe

  Moving, Issues, Used

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• I used to be treated like an idiot, now I'm treated like an idiot savant.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Writing, Idiot, Used

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• I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.

  Tamora Pierce

  Views, Parent, Dysfunctional Family

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• It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.

  Charley Pride

  Rocks, Atlanta, Way

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• I'm lucky to have parents who used to be bodybuilders! They help me keep fit by going to the gym and training with me. I'm also addicted to Cardio Barre classes and hiking.

  Janel Parrish

  Class, Hiking, Parent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in... it didn't used to be that way.

  Jason Patric

  Looks, Actors, Way

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• The movie industry used to be completely accessible. We all knew people in it, and nobody made a big fuss.

  Stefanie Powers

  People, Used, Made

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• I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people's hands. But I'm kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice.

  Chance the Rapper

  Artist, Hands, Cds

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• I'm very stodgy. I'm always looking at old photos of California and Los Angeles, knowing that what I'm looking at is now full of houses. There used to be vacant lots in Los Angeles, now all taken up by three-storey boxes - it's all getting infilled.

  Edward Ruscha

  Taken, California, Knowing

  "A man of few words" by Emma Forrest, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2008.

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