Used To Be Quotes - Page 19

• If you have to run away from something that used to be an idol, you're actually still enslaved by it. It's still controlling you.

  Timothy Keller

  Running, Idols, Used

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• A friend of mine who used to be my boss at ESPN once was asked why sports had exploded the way it had. He said, "Because you can't go to Blockbuster and rent tonight's game." Every night is different in sports. Every day there are different heroes and villains and conversations after the game.

  Mike Lupica

  Sports, Hero, Night

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• 'Live and let life' used to be a noble approach to life. Now you're considered compassionate if you demand that government impose your preferences on others.

  John Stossel

  Government, Noble, Demand

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• I used to be a folk singer, but I was... dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.

  Billy Connolly

  Fog, Voice, Singers

  "Billy Connolly: Live". Documentary, Comedy, 1994.

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• It used to be the custom in this country that when you had made a career and were mature in judgment, you went to the Senate to give something back t the Republic. The idea that at age 25 you go out and buy a blow dryer and starting running for office is not what the founders had in mind

  Gore Vidal

  Running, Country, Blow

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• Germany is too big to sit on the sidelines on world issues. Military force is not the ultima ratio it used to be, but it can be used, with care.

  Frank-Walter Steinmeier

  Military, World Issues, Germany

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• Now the man on duty used to be changed from time to time. Once one of these men, without giving me the slightest warning, without even asking me to leave the footpath, pushed and kicked me into the street. I was dismayed. Before I could question him as to his behaviour, Mr Coates, who happened to be passing the spot on horseback, hailed me and said: 'Gandhi, I have seen everything. I shall gladly be your witness in court if you proceed against the man. I am very sorry you have been so rudely assaulted.'

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sorry, Men, Giving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.16, A&C Black

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• My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just continuous overload.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Definitions, Littles, Madness

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• I'm maybe not quite as sharp as I used to be.

  Pete Sampras

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• It's the fault of the chess players themselves. I don't know what they used to be, but now they're not the most gentlemanly group. When it was a game played by the aristocrats it had more like you know dignity to it. When they used to have the clubs, like no women were allowed and everybody went in dressed in a suit, a tie, like gentlemen, you know. Now, kids come running in their sneakers. Even in the best chess club-and they got women in there. It's a social place and people are making noise, it's a madhouse.

  Bobby Fischer

  Running, Kids, Player

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• ....remember, a billion dollars isn't worth what it used to be.

  J. Paul Getty

  Dollars, Remember, Used

  "J. Paul Getty Dead at 83; Amassed Billions From Oil" by Alden Whitman, www.nytimes.com. June 6, 1976.

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• That middle ground of films used to be 70, 80, 90, 100; now it's like anything over 20 or under 140, the middle ground has become this huge area where they don't really want to be.

  Eric Fellner

  Want, Film, Used

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• I used to be very afraid of flying. It would creep me out and make me very tense and very uncomfortable, and I would sweat or even cry. I was very, very scared of dying, but I'm not anymore. Fears need to be indulged, in order to exist. I don't have much time to indulge in any fears.

  Franka Potente

  Order, Sweat, Indulge In

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• I used to be a lot more engaged on an improvisational level than other people. I was always on tour and always had a guitar in my hands, and when I went back home, my battery was at full charge. I had a lot of energy to get off, just impulses that I could draw upon.

  Bradford Cox

  Home, Guitar, Hands

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• Europeans used to be proud to be the advanced form of democracy. Now they're definitely a little bit ashamed because we are seeing that finally, the bond that we had, it was money.

  Miguel Gomes

  Democracy, Proud, Littles

  "The Epic Miguel Gomes". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 3, 2015.

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• I think I'm a bit gruffer than I used to be, and I'm certainly older.

  Ian Mckellen

  Thinking, Used, Bits

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• I'm not used to be the adult. I'm not very good at being the adult. To some regard, I wanted to just hang out and joke around, like I would normally, but I had to try to find the movie to shoot.

  Jamie Linden

  Trying, Adults, Used

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• It used to be embarrassing. In the beginning, because you listen to yourself so much, you think, I must look like an asshole right now - or sound like an asshole. And then, you just get to that point where you've done so many ridiculous, ridiculous things in the booth from screaming, to having orgasms, to whatever your director is asking you to do for this character, you just lose your inhibitions.

  Rachael MacFarlane

  Character, Thinking, Sound

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• I used to be like "Why are we doing a remake? What are remakes being done for?" But then, we do that all the time in the theater. Retelling stories is what we've done since we were sitting around campfires. It's a part of the human spirit. It doesn't have to be negative to creativity. It can be completely opposite.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Creativity, Opposites, Stories

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• I used to be able to sit in a chair and for four hours straight in a very focused meditative way be in my own world without ay interruption. And now it's like your brain is getting so trained to check your phone, and there is like a dopamine release every time you get a text whether it's a good or a bad one. I'm really worried about what it's doing to our minds.

  Brit Marling

  Phones, Brain, Mind

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• The Stooges used to be ubiquitous, back in the '60s and '70s. They were on TV all the time, but they're not on so much anymore. Kids aren't getting the chance to watch them, not to mention the fact that kids don't really necessarily relate to black-and-white stuff.

  Chris Diamantopoulos

  Kids, Black And White, Watches

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• Once you leave Sundance suddenly you run into bulldozers and concrete and cranes, and all that heritage that the Mormon culture used to be so proud of is turned into out of control develpoment.

  Robert Redford

  Running, Culture, Heritage

  "Robert Redford: We Have to Act on Climate Change Without Washington". Interview with Vivienne Walt, time.com. December 6, 2015.

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• I love to go see live music. That used to be what I would do, almost every other night, and watch drummers play.

  Patty Schemel

  Night, Play, Watches

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• The novel may be dead as a commercial form. When art forms things die as commercial forms, something happens to the practice of those arts that isn't very pleasant. It used to be that a poet like Tennyson could keep his house and his coach-and-four and his staff of six servants on the income from poetry. That doesn't happen anymore.

  William Monahan

  Art, Practice, House

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• Poetry died as a commercial form and then it died as a serious art form. No one serious touches it. It used to be that somebody like F. Scott Fitzgerald could make a high middle-class income from working as a short story writer for the Saturday Evening Post and other outlets. That doesn't happen anymore. It used to be that a legitimate playwright could make a living on Broadway from writing decent plays.

  William Monahan

  Art, Writing, Class

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