Used Quotes - Page 16

• Mercy, mercy me, things ain't what they used to be.

  Marvin Gaye

  Expression, Nostalgia, Mercy

  Song: Mercy, Mercy Me

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• San Francisco isn't what it used to be, and it never was.

  Herb Caen

  Humorous, San Francisco, Used To Be

  Herb Caen (1967). “San Francisco, City on Golden Hills”

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• Emotions are there to enjoy life; but they are not used in self-reflection because they inhibit a proper reflection. They gunk us up.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reflection, Self, Enjoy Life

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• You have to remember, Frank Sinatra is 82 years old, which is 240 in your years. He's lived three lifetimes! He has good and bad days. He can't run ... around as fast as he used to.

  Tom Dreesen

  Running, Bad Day, Years

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• Before a fight I'm always afraid... before I used to have a hard time just dealing with it because I would try to run away from it, but then as I competed more I understood the fact that this is how I'm supposed to feel.

  Rashad Evans

  Running, Fighting, Hard Times

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• I always knew I had to be 100 percent in charge, even when I was a middle manager. I used to say to my boss, "Just give me enough rope and then fire me."

  Ricky Gervais

  Fire, Giving, Boss

  "Ricky Gervais: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 12, 2012.

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• Time has been used destructively by people of ill will much more than it has been used constructively by those of good will.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Ill Will, People, Has Beens

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I used to work out in the gym a lot when I was younger. I was a competition body builder when I was 16 or something crazy like that for a short period of time. So, the gym is quite familiar and I know what I'm doing there.

  Guy Pearce

  Crazy, Work Out, Competition

  Source: collider.com

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• I've always been singing and making noise. I used to do that all the time when I was a kid. My mom would get very frustrated with me because I would just sit around and make noises.

  Tove Styrke

  Mom, Kids, Frustrated

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I used to collect frames. I've been collecting accessories since I was 11-years-old, creeping around flea markets and sales and everything. Whenever I saw unusual eyeglass frames, I bought them.

  Iris Apfel

  Years, Eyeglasses, Fleas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think kids have got to learn how to work with what's happening, work with social, work with everything. To complain about how things aren't the way they used to be.

  Diplo

  Kids, Thinking, Complaining

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You're so used to being on the road and having a schedule that the insanity seeps in when you're sitting at home and there's nothing going on that day. I remember the first time we got off one of our first big tours, I told my guys, "Go home to your girlfriends." The next day, all my guys texted me like, "Do you wanna, like, do something? Let's all go bowling. I can't hang with people that live normal lives."

  Lzzy Hale

  Girlfriend, Home, Next Day

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• You have to remember the police used to raid and arrest the audience for seeing Scorpio Rising (1964), or Jack Smith movies. Wouldn't that be exciting today, if you see went to the movie and everyone at the IFC was arrested in a paddy wagon and taken away?

  John Waters

  Taken, Scorpios, Police

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I used to envy people who had written books, the way I think women envy other women who've had babies. I was resentful, shy, and inhibited around people who had written books. They'd done things I wanted to do.

  Joan Juliet Buck

  Baby, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The very things I used to be told off for - daydreaming, exaggerating, making mistakes, wild guessing, contradicting, spying, being obsessive, being reckless - for these, suddenly, I am being praised.

  Selima Hill

  Success, Mistake, Guessing

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• I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life.

  Oskar Kokoschka

  Self, People, Imagination

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• The term 'cyberutopian' tends to be used only in the context of critique. Calling someone a cyberutopian implies that he or she has an unrealistic and naively overinflated sense of what technology makes possible and an insufficient understanding of the forces that govern societies.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Technology, Understanding, Calling

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• To be gay and out of shape is almost as much of a stigma as just being gay used to be.

  Bruce Vilanch

  Gay, Shapes, Just Being

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• I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way.

  Clare Balding

  Thinking, Ambitious, Adjectives

  "'I'm going to glam up': Clare Balding nervous ahead of prime time TV role" by Simon Boyle, www.mirror.co.uk. December 28, 2012.

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• Used to be all I'd want to learn was wisdom, trust and truth, now all I really want to learn is Forgiveness for you

  Ed Roland

  Want, Used To Be

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• I reached this level by sheer dint of hard work, toiling away at scores of tricks and experiments. I used to play with the ball from dawn till dusk and just kept practising. If I wasn't playing matches, it was trying out one on one or two against two with a tennis ball. Then I used to try aiming at certain targets. That's the only way to learn. And if I missed the target, I kept trying until I scored

  Zinedine Zidane

  Hard Work, Two, Play

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• I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. My chief difficulty was in constructing the carbon filament... Every quarter of the globe was ransacked by my agents, and all sorts of the queerest materials used, until finally the shred of bamboo, now utilized by us, was settled upon.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Light, Two, Connections

  "Talks with Edison". Harper's Magazine, Volume 80, February 1890.

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• Sport can be used for messaging, for example, making the connections between shin guards or a helmet that protects you, and protection in terms of HIV and AIDS. There has also been a very active program in Africa called 'Kick Polio out of Africa,' where soccer players have spoken out in terms of polio. There is also going to be a swim for malaria.

  Carol Bellamy

  Soccer, Sports, Player

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• There is no communication with any public whatsoever. The artist can ask no question, and he makes no statement; he offers no information, and his work cannot be used. It is the end product which counts.

  Georg Baselitz

  Communication, Artist, Information

  Georg Baselitz, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum (1983). “Baselitz, paintings 1960-83”

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• My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so the way kids used to talk got into our earlier songs.

  Donald Fagen

  Song, New York, Writing

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