Used To Be Quotes - Page 16

• The poet's role has changed over the centuries, the ages. The poets, the griots, used to be the keepers of the facts; they were the story tellers, and the stories were allegorically written truths: where we came from, how we migrated over this river, got with this tribe, became this nation, and tamed the mountains. It changed from that to being purely entertainment. And once it became purely entertainment, it lost something.

  Malik Yusef

  Rivers, Age, Mountain

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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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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• Facebook and other social networking sites are bringing together spheres that used to be separate. People no longer have private and public lives; the line between the two is becoming blurred.

  Paul Achleitner

  Two, People, Together

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm like a shooting star! I've come so far! I can't go back to where I used to be!

  Princess Jasmine

  Stars, Shooting, Used

  FaceBook post by Princess Jasmine from Aug 19, 2015

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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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• I'm offering myself up. I'm saying that if I have the background, the capability and the concern to do this and I'm doing this for the right reasons... but I'm not particularly interested in running for president, but I think I'd make a good president. Nowadays, the process has become much more important than I think it used to be.

  Fred Thompson

  Running, Thinking, Offering

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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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• If, you know, all your life you're making films or whatever, and somehow along the way you lose meaning in whatever you're doing when you're making the films, they're just not the same as they used to be to you. That doesn't mean your life is over; it just means maybe go try to live a different life.

  Angel Olsen

  Mean, Trying, Different

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• I used to be somebody.  Now I’m somebody else.

  Jeff Bridges

  Used

  "Song: "Somebody Else" ("Crazy Heart: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack")". January 19, 2010.

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• I'm from Kentucky. I used to be very personable and make eye contact and smile at people, and now all I do is look down. When I'm at dinner and one person after another keeps interrupting to take pictures, it's like, "I can't live like this."

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Eye, Kentucky, People

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

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• When I was younger, I used to be a high jumper before I switched to hurdles.

  Liu Xiang

  Used, Hurdle, Jumpers

  "Talk Asia" with Stan Grant, www.cnn.com. May 19, 2006.

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• Parents are used to being made to feel guilty about...their contribution to the population problem, the school tax burden, and declining test scores. They expect to be blamed by teachers and psychologists, if not by police. And they will be blamed by the children themselves. It is hardy a wonder, then, that they withdraw into what used to be called "permissiveness" but is really neglect.

  C. Sommerville

  Teacher, Children, School

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• A girl's career today doesn't have the same kind of life span, whereas it used to be a collaboration and a partnership and it continued. Peter Lindbergh still uses girls - like, look at Amber Valetta - so there are some photographers that have relationships long-term with models. I also think that the industry can't support the amount of models that exist right now and therefore the relationships between photographers and models and even the clients is short lived.

  Michael Flutie

  Girl, Thinking, Careers

  Source: www.glamour.com

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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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• It's not that you have jobs on the Internet, but the Internet makes it possible for more people to build their own jobs. What it does is, it erodes the power of institutions. It used to be you needed an institution to have a job. But, if you look at the three of us on this show, I don't think any of us is really employed by an institution. We run our own lives.

  Esther Dyson

  Running, Jobs, Thinking

  "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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• Once a company has adapted to a new environment, it is no longer the organization it used to be; it has evolved. That is the essence of learning.

  Arie de Geus

  Organization, Essence, Environment

  "The Living Company: Growth, Learning and Longevity in Business". Book by Arie de Geus, 1999.

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• Physically, we get older and then we die. Yet spiritually, whether we go backward or forward is a matter not of the body but of consciousness. When we think about age differently, then our experience of it changes. We can be physically older but emotionally and psychologically younger. Some of us were in a state of decay in our 20s and are in a state of re-birth in our 60s or 70s. King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.

  Marianne Williamson

  Summer, Kings, Winter

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There are companies which are prepared to change the way they work. They realize that nothing can be based on what used to be, that there is a better way. But, 99 percent of companies are not ready, [they are] caught in an industrial Jurassic Park.

  Ricardo Semler

  Jurassic Park, Way, Parks

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• I remember Elton John used to be their owner and he is my favourite singer! I hope the match will be an opportunity to meet Elton John!

  Carlo Ancelotti

  Opportunity, Singers, Remember

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• I am already sensible of decay in the power of walking, and find my memory not so faithful as it used to be. This may be partly owing to the incessant current of new matter flowing constantly through it; but I ascribe to years their share in it also.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Memories, Years, Faithful

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.403

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