Used To Be Quotes - Page 25

• It used to be when a good record was about to drop you heard it out of every car and every kid with a boom box was playing it 3-4 weeks before it came out. Now it's not like that you just see ipods left and right and there's no anticipation factor. I have yet to see something drop with the anticipation that Illmatic had or that Ready 2 Die and Cuban Linx had. Those records had real anticipation factors.

  Mic Geronimo

  Real, Kids, Ipods

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• When I was younger I used to be really into photography, and I still am, I just don't really get to do it besides taking my own artists photos and stuff like that.

  Melanie Martinez

  Photography, Artist, Stuff

  Interview with Jamie Taylor, concertaddicts.com. February 22, 2016.

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• It used to be with chocolate. I would put chocolate in my studio and say, "You know, Nat, there's this chocolate you can have if you get over there." And usually if I got over there, I would start writing. Sometimes I need get out of the house and go to a café and write. Sometimes I'll write with other friends to get myself going. And sometimes I just say "Ok, Nat, enough. Go one hour. Keep your hand going." I'll do whatever it takes.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Hands, House

  "The Writing Life". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. July 19, 2016.

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• I'll go to a restaurant where I've never been before, and someone will say, "I don't have anything big for you to eat." I used to be a little salty about that, but at the end of the day, what they're saying is, "I know who you are. I watch your stuff." What's better than that? Gratitude is the attitude. That's the thing. What am I being pissy about?

  Adam Richman

  Gratitude, Attitude, The End Of The Day

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The idea that things used to be better is fantasy. It's putting a halo on something that no one can disprove.

  Dan Mangan

  Ideas, Halos, Fantasy

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• To say, "It used to be better," nobody can say, "Well, no it wasn't." It's like telling a story that is self-aggrandizing about someone who has passed away, when they can't tell the other side of the story.

  Dan Mangan

  Self, Stories, Sides

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• There used to be the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. There used to be Soviet troops in the GDR. And we must honestly admit that they were occupation troops, which remained in Germany after WWII under the guise of allied troops. Now these occupation troops are gone, the Soviet Union has collapsed, and the Warsaw Pact is no more. There is no Soviet threat, but NATO and U.S. troops are still in Europe. What for?

  Vladimir Putin

  Europe, Gone, Occupation

  Source: russialist.org

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• We need never be bound by the limitations of our previous or current thinking, nor are we ever locked into being the person we used to be, or think we are.

  Allan Lokos

  Thinking, Meditation, Needs

  Allan Lokos (2010). “Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living”, p.32, Penguin

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• Sometimes we praise the way things used to be in order to blame the present, and we esteem what is no longer in order to scorn what is.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Order, Way, Blame

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• It used to be a common saying of Myson's that men ought not to seek for things in words, but for words in things; for that things are not made on account of words but that words are put together for the sake of things.

  Diogenes Laertius

  Men, Together, Sake

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• It used to be that, when something strange happened, we'd hear on the news "Police believe this is the act of an isolated nut." On the internet there are no isolated nuts; whatever kind of nut you are, you can find fifty nuts in the world exactly like you.

  Bruce Perens

  Believe, Nuts, Police

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• I deal with what "is," not with what I wish was or not with what was or used to be.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Wish, Used, Deals

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Parties and political systems used to be about excluding renegades who would never play well with others in government. Now it's actually systematically screening them in.

  Jonathan Rauch

  Party, Government, Play

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't use the social media but I can see the effects in my own correspondence. I get a ton of correspondence. It used to be hard copy and now it's a very limited amount of actual letters people write. So it's mostly email.

  Noam Chomsky

  Writing, Media, People

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• When I was invited to go to Wuhan, I didn't know anything about it, so I looked up the Wikipedia about Wuhan. I discovered that part of Wuhan used to be Hankou, and then I realised that my great grandmother came from Hankou. My grandmother and father were both born in Hankou. Of all the places in China, it is the most amazing place to have asked for my exhibition. I needed to go back where my family comes from!

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Father, Grandmother, Wikipedia

  Source: www.artzip.org

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• It used to be that nobody would really argue with a woman, because what she thought (unless it was by way of providing helpful comments about one's own work) just didn't matter.

  Catherine Wilson

  Matter, Way, Arguing

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I had to start boxing because I missed working on something and learning and I guess there's a little more aggression in boxing. I couldn't really get that side of me out, but I used to be able to by hitting a volleyball. That's why I started boxing.

  Gigi Hadid

  Volleyball, Boxing, Hitting

  "Gigi Hadid Hates the Gym, Loves Carbs, and Just Got Her First Fitness Campaign". Interview with Kristina Rodulfo, www.elle.com. October 4, 2016.

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• I have been singing as long as I can remember. I used to be in choir; I used to do musical theater. I'd prefer not to sing my own songs, but there you have it.

  Cass McCombs

  Song, Long, Musical

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My schedule has not calmed down, but I'm definitely not so devastated as I used to be. Definitely cooler now. A lot of blessings have fallen into my lap, and I'm very thankful to receive all of them.

  Joey Badass

  Blessing, Lap, Schedules

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Rural Alberta is a lot less homogeneous than it used to be, partly because of my immigration policies.

  Jason Kenney

  Immigration, Used, Alberta

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I like to always stop with a couple of pages that I haven't - that are just raw copy, where I haven't touched it, I haven't tried to revise it, I haven't tried to polish it. It's like having a little bit of a runway. The next day when you sit down, you have the comfort of saying, well, I have got a little bit here, used to be in the typewriter. Now it's in the magic box, the computer.

  Stephen King

  Couple, Typewriters, Next Day

  "Stephen King wants to reach out and grab you — with his writing". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2016.

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• When I got out of school, it used to be that it was theater actors that ended up doing film and television, and you had to come from the theater to be taken seriously in that world.

  Zachary Quinto

  Taken, School, Film And Television

  Interview with Patrick J. Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 18, 2016.

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• I've traveled everywhere, and it's been amazing. I used to think taking a flight was kind of a big deal, you know? I'm from the valleys of South Wales and when my family used to go on holiday, it was a big thing. Packing the bags, checking in, not losing your passport, going through customs, the X-ray machine, all that stuff used to be quite an intense thing. Now it's like catching a bus, I don't even think about it.

  Luke Evans

  Holiday, Thinking, Bags

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I think the film [Aquarius] comes from that original feeling I had 18 years ago, when I was in a São Paulo supermarket. I was in line to pay for something, and when I looked up, I saw the little windows of a projection booth. That's when I realized the supermarket used to be a movie theater. They didn't even bother to change the walls. Years ago, "The Sound of Music" could've been playing in that space.

  Sonia Braga

  Wall, Thinking, Aquarius

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• You're not chasing syndication any more. It used to be a big thing. "Let's make 100 episodes and we'll get paid for life". You know? And what does the sheer amount of content that's being made do to syndication after a while? It just seems like there's more content than there is hours for everyone to watch it. But it's some of the best content that's ever been created.

  Bill Burr

  Doe, Watches, Hours

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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