Using Me Quotes

• If anybody starts using me as scenery, I'll return to New York.

  Grace Kelly

  New York, Return, Scenery

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• I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But I felt that was missing the point of using me, a musician

  Damon Albarn

  Missing You, Musician, Ambassadors

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• When we use memories, we are creators. But when our memories use us, we become victims.

  Deepak Chopra

  Memories, Use, Victim

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• We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.'

  Desmond Tutu

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

  Desmond Tutu, Naomi Tutu (1989). “The words of Desmond Tutu”, Newmarket Pr

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• Use memories. Do not let memories use you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Letting Go, Memories, Use

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• People try constantly to use me and I hate it.

  Tracey Emin

  Hate, People, Trying

  "Show and tell". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2001.

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• If you're a member of a despised group, look out! They'll find a drug and associate you with its use. There are a lot of people in the gay community using methamphetamine and paying taxes and going to work and doing well.

  Carl Hart

  Gay, People, Community

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I’ve made some mistakes. I had to make a turnaround in my life. This is my new expression to the world and this is my comeback and this is my moment. This is my chance to say, ‘This is what God made of me and I’m still worthy.’ If I was a one hundred dollar bill, and I was all messed up, someone would clean me up and use me. I’m still worth something!

  Maia Campbell

  Mistake, Expression, Dollar Bills

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• Instead of using medicine, better fast today.

  Plutarch

  Medicine, Today

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• Don't look for the meanings; look for the use.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Looks, Use

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• Don't use men to get what you want in life. Get it yourself.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Independent Women, Use, Want

  "Helen Gurley Brown: how to have it all" by Sali Hughes, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2012.

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• Means and ends are central. If your means are corroded, your ends will be corroded. And if you're fighting to preserve liberty and you use means that eviscerate our liberties, the end will be corroded, too.

  Nat Hentoff

  Freedom, Mean, Fighting

  "Dangers to Civil Liberties and Learning from the First Iraq Warv". "Now" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. February 28, 2003.

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• New Rule: If an Evangelical tries to use Halloween to pimp Jesus to kids, they get to egg his house. On Halloween, the president of the American Family Association urged his flock to hand out a Christian-based comic book instead of candy. Excuse me, Halloween isn't a time to push your beliefs. You don't see me handing out pot to kids...Okay, well not the little kids.

  Bill Maher

  Christian, Jesus, Halloween

  Bill Maher (2011). “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass”, p.95, Penguin

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• He [God] is using me, all the time, everywhere, to stand up for a biblical worldview in everything that I do and everywhere I am. He is training me.

  Tom DeLay

  Biblical, Training, Religion

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• I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.

  Anita Baker

  Small Numbers, People, Trying

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• You’re just using me for my body.” “You don’t have a body,” I’d remind him. “Throw that in my face.” “Technically, you don’t have a face either.

  Darynda Jones

  Body, Faces

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.228, St. Martin's Press

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• Why were my visitors so secretive, hiding themselves behind my consciousness. I could only conclude that they were using me and did not want me to know why...What if they were dangerous? Then I was terribly dangerous because I was playing a role in acclimatizing people to them.

  Whitley Strieber

  People, What If, Want

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• at first I thought you were just using me" she said "I definitely am." I just wasn't sure for what. "Asshole!" she said, and punched me in the side. And she laughed as my kidney began to hemorrhage. That's the beauty of honesty. Everyones so unused to hearing it they just assume you're kidding, and you get to feel very good and forthcoming without suffering any consequences except for traces of blood in your urine for the next day or two.

  Paul Neilan

  Honesty, Blood, Two

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• Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess." - Ch. 5

  Amy Tan

  Play, Want, Chess

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• I was Jake's insurance policy. He thought maybe he wouldn't have to use me. He hoped, anyway. But down deep he knew, and I knew, and we both hid the truth from the others because Cassie couldn't let Jake make that decision, and Tobias couldn't let me, and those two, by loving us, would have screwed everything up. It was a war, after all. A war we had to win.

  Katherine Applegate

  War, Winning, Two

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• I signed a $150,000 contract with TNA Wrestling for a year. I ended up 8 appearances for 40 minutes. Then I signed a second contract and they didn't use me. So, I'd like to thank them for $300,000 for 40 minutes' worth of work.

  Jonny Fairplay

  Wrestling, Years, Use

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• Don't use metaphors in fantasy; your readers will take them literally. Or they may take them figuratively - but if so, they'll also take your magics and transformations figuratively. Either way, you're in trouble.

  Teresa Nielsen Hayden

  Writing, Magic, Use

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• Love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, I'll be anybody you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and big hair. Take me apart. Make me into anything, but just love me.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Hair, Use, Want

  Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.144, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Use me. You've done so much for us-" Marissa said. "Not.....for you." V said. "He's alive because of you. So that's everything." V shook his head and turned away from the wrist. "Can't." "I need you. I'm sick from what I do. I need you." Butch whispered. Vishous fixated on Butch. "Only for...you... not me." "For both of us" "All of us," Marissa interjtected. V took a deep breth and bit into the wrist.

  J.R. Ward

  Sick, Needs, Use

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• He grinned, though his face was strained. “That’s it, love. Use me to make yerself feel good.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Feel Good, Use, Faces

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