Used To Be Quotes - Page 18

• I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Fashion, Book, Followers

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• To get anything done, you used to have to brush past, or at least lay eyes on, someone whose reality was totally different from your own. That used to be inevitable. If that goes away because everything's so convenient, everything's brought to you, well, then there goes one of my favorite parts of life, and something that I've gone out of my way to court.

  Miranda July

  Eye, Past, Reality

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. 2015.

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• I always used to be more of a city guy, and more and more I'm starting to enjoy being in nature.

  Michiel Huisman

  Cities, Guy, Used

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I used to be a conservative.

  Jeb Bush

  Conservative, Used

  November 1, 2015.

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• Every ballpark used to be unique. Now, it's like women's breasts - if you've seen one, you've seen 'em both.

  Jim Kaat

  Unique, Ems, Used

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• I used to be very hands-on, but lately I've been more hands-off and I plan to become more hands-on and less hands-off and hope that hands-on will become better than hands-off, the way hands-on used to be.

  George Steinbrenner

  Hands, Way, Used

  "SPORTS OF THE TIMES; A Student Of Attila The Hun" by Ira Berkow, www.nytimes.com. May 19, 1990.

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• I used to be opposed to the idea of social entrepreneurship. I said, you know, let business be business, and philanthropy be philanthropy. Keep the two separate, don't mix it up, and this is what I did, and I did that rather successfully, but I now recognize that actually you do need to mix it up and I think there is room for social entrepreneurship.

  George Soros

  Thinking, Ideas, Two

  Interview with Mark Schapiro, September 5, 2000.

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• I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Moving, Might, Unhappiness

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• Running has made my life worthwhile. I used to be more dead than alive after the personal tragedy in my life.

  Fauja Singh

  Running, Tragedy, Alive

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• The game of business used to be like football: size mattered. Then it changed to basketball: speed and agility. Today, business is more like chess. Customer priorities change continually, and the signals given by these changes are vital clues to the next cycle of growth.

  Adrian Slywotzky

  Basketball, Football, Games

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• Long distances used to be a moat that both insulated and isolated people from workers on the other side of the world. But every day, technology narrows that moat inch by inch. Every person in the world is on the verge of becoming both a coworker and a competitor to every one of us ... Technological change is going to reach out and sooner or later change something fundamental in your business world.

  Andy Grove

  Distance, Technology, Technological Change

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• The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.

  Paul Valery

  Used

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• We used to be hunter-gatherers, now we're shopper-borrowers.

  Robin Williams

  Hunters, Used, Hunter Gatherers

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• You're all alone when you're a writer. Sometimes you just feel you need a humanity bath. Even a ride on the subway will do that. But it's much more interesting to talk about books. After all, that's what life used to be for writers: they talk books, politics, history, America. Nothing has replaced that.

  Saul Bellow

  Book, America, Interesting

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• 'One Week' changed my life because I used to be the Million Dollars Guy, and now I'm the Chickity China Guy.

  Ed Robertson

  Guy, Dollars, Week

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• Expert estimates of probability are often off by factors of hundreds or
  thousands. [...] I used to be annoyed when the margin of error was high in
  a forecasting model that I might put together. Now I view it as perhaps the
  single most important piece of information that a forecaster provides. When
  we publish a forecast on FiveThirtyEight, I go to great lengths to document
  the uncertainty attached to it, even if the uncertainty is sufficiently
  large that the forecast won't make for punchy headlines.

  Nate Silver

  Views, Errors, Annoyed

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• Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.

  Thomas Sowell

  Rights, Equal Treatment, People

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• It is true that the top quintile is getting richer while the bottom is getting poorer, but the bottom is not the same people. There is, fortunately, a constant churning at the bottom as new immigrants move in and those who used to be on the bottom begin their long, thrilling upward climb to the American dream.

  Dick Morris

  Dream, Moving, Long

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• In England pensions used to be given to aristocrats, because aristocrats had political influence, in order to corrupt them. Here pensions are given to the great democratic mass, because they have political power, to corrupt them.

  William Graham Sumner

  Order, Political, England

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.123, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson - real lows. And it's never come back. It's a trend that, if you're liberal, is really discouraging.

  Robert Caro

  Real, Government, Feelings

  "Robert Caro: a life with LBJ and the pursuit of power" by Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2012.

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• We associate the North Atlantic with cod. The motto of Newfoundland used to be 'In cod we trust.' It was a joke, but it was essentially true. But there is no cod anymore. And that's extraordinary. It's all because of either greed or politics - Canadian politics.

  Simon Winchester

  Greed, Motto, Used

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• I've kind of gotten more timid. I used to be fearless - at a certain point I didn't care about what anybody thought. I had all the answers and I could have been as bad as I wanted to be. But nowadays I just want to be good and make people happy.

  Ariel Pink

  People, Fearless, Answers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Society definitely encourages and condones men's violence toward women. Not as much as it used to be when it was less visible, and there were still laws on the books that made it alright for men to beat their wives, as long as it was within certain limits, and women were chattel.

  Gloria Steinem

  Book, Men, Law

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's maybe every third person now (who calls out 'Norm!' when they see me). It used to be every other person. It's faded a bit, but not too much. They're always going to remember me that way. I decided a long time ago that if I'm going to let this make me crazy, I'm going to be certifiable, so I just roll with it.

  George Wendt

  Crazy, Long, Too Much

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• I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here's a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.

  Billy Joel

  People, Rolling, Stones

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