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• There's no question but that a nuclear Iran, a nuclear-capable Iran is unacceptable to America. It presents a threat not only to our friends but ultimately a threat to us to have Iran have nuclear material, nuclear weapons that could be used against us or used to be threatening to us.

  Mitt Romney

  Nuclear Iran, America, Weapons

  Source: genius.com

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• America is stronger than any state probably since the Roman Empire. But we can't do what used to be done with that kind of strength.

  Brent Scowcroft

  America, Stronger, Done

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• I used to be an insult comic, and I didn't end up liking the way that I felt about myself.

  Zach Anner

  Way, Insult, Comic

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• I've directed our defense community headed by our great general now Secretary [James] Mattis, he's over there now working very hard to submit a plan for the defeat of ISIS, a group that celebrates the murder and torture of innocent people in large sections of the world, used to be a small group, now it's in large sections of the world.

  Donald Trump

  Working Very Hard, Isis, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• It used to be that conservatives who were in government, like myself, we would get what we felt was unfair coverage, we'd go home, we would grumble, we would complain about it, but we actually wouldn't say anything to the reporter or to the reporters while they're asking us additional questions.

  Kris Kobach

  Home, Government, Say Anything

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I always had a Twitter account. I always had an Instagram account. I was always active on it, always spoke my mind. To me, it's really weird that I got so many followers and people that pay attention the way they do. It's hilarious, actually, because people didn't used to listen to me at all. I used to be like, "Does anybody hear me talkin'?"

  Leslie Jones

  People, Mind, Doe

  Source: w.espn.go.com

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• The term Christian used to be a pejorative. Back in the day, Christians were persecuted; however, over time, it became one of the word's biggest religions. Same thing with the term Mormons in the religious area. Mormons didn't want to be called that. They wanted to be called Latter-day Saints. It's only been in recent decades that they kind of shifted that position and took ownership of it.

  Simon Tam

  Christian, Religious, Want

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I used to be able to be in England and just be fine. No one had any idea who I was.I get a lot more abuse in England.

  Robert Pattinson

  Ideas, Abuse, Able

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• [The Middle East conflict ] just kind of ran its course for me. For a long time I could justify doing it to myself, no matter how irrational it was. It was important to me and my work. And I just don't feel it in the same way any more. When it comes up and it's important to me, I'll do it, but more out of sense of duty than desire - which used to be a big part of it.

  Peter van Agtmael

  Long, Desire, Important

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• Hip-hop used to be about battles, beatboxing and breakdancing. All they get exposed to now is the negative stuff.

  Houston Alexander

  Hip Hop, Battle, Negative

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• I think what's happening is, it's all - fantasy, science fiction, ghosts, trolls, whatever - finally being called, being admitted to be literature. The way it used to be, before the Realists and the bloody Modernists took over.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Thinking, Way, Fiction

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My stepfather used to be a clown in The Shrine Circus. He took me backstage when I was 23. I saw three elephants chained to the cement floor in the warehouse of the Michigan State Fairgrounds. Sadness, hopelessness and fear were emanating from their eyes, from their bodies. They were swaying neurotically from side to side. A monkey was screaming in his cage, grabbing the bars of his prison. Two tigers were pacing feverishly in their tiny cages. Cruelty was staring me in the face. I knew something was wrong. If you pay attention to energy, you can tell when a fellow being is in peril.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Sadness, Eye, Elephants

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• In America there are people advocating for trans rights and people like Vice President Pence, who is vehemently opposed. In Pakistan, too, you have all kinds of folks - from flamboyant gay fashion designers and female Air Force pilots to the Taliban. A cross-dressed man used to be the top TV talk show host. It was actually quite radical. So the diversity of these societies is often lost on people.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Fashion, Gay, Men

  "Love in the Time of Mass Migration". Interview With Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. March 4, 2017.

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• Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more - absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.

  Nadine Gordimer

  America, Diplomats, France

  Source: progressive.org

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• Palestinians want a state of their own. They want to live in freedom. They want to get rid of the terrible misery in which they are living. They are ready after fifty years to accept a state of their own in 22 percent of what used to be the country of Palestine. I think it is the height of stupidity on our part if we don't grasp this opportunity.

  Uri Avnery

  Country, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: progressive.org

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• We've got to make sure that we rebuild the infrastructure in America, because we used to be - have the best bridges, the best roads, the best airports. And now, when you go to China or you go to Europe, you see that they are outstripping us in terms of infrastructure. And if we put people back to work, that would be good not only in the short term, but it would also lay the foundation, the framework for long-term economic and job growth.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Europe, Bridges

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• America ranks 21st when it comes to math education. We rank 25th when it comes to science. We used to be number one in the proportion of college graduates. We now rank ninth. And at an age where knowledge, skills, are the determinant of how successful we're going to be, unless we reverse that we're going to keep slipping behind economically to a lot of other countries.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Math, Successful

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• In my former life I was in insider, as much as anybody else. And I knew what it's like, and I still know what it's like to be an insider. It's not bad, it's not bad. Now I'm being punished for leaving the special club and revealing to you the terrible things that are going on having to do with America. Because I used to be part of the club, I'm the only one that can fix it.

  Donald Trump

  America, Leaving, Special

  "TRANSCRIPT: Donald Trump's Speech Responding To Assault Accusations". www.npr.org. October 13, 2016.

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• This region [North Carolina] used to be the furniture manufacturing hub of the world. I know because I bought plenty. But the NAFTA deal and then China's entry into the World Trade Organization, another Bill[Clinton] and Hillary[Clinton] backed disaster, have sent those jobs to other countries.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jobs, Organization

  Source: time.com

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• There's a line I love in Conan The Barbarian where someone says, "That used to be another snake cult, now I see it everywhere." That's certainly true of documentaries. I wouldn't say it's ubiquitous, but it's become close to ubiquitous. It's everywhere.

  Errol Morris

  Snakes, Lines, Barbarians

  Source: collider.com

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• You ever go out to a restaurant now? You can get quality food - you can go out and get the best food that was available 20 years ago. They'll put it on a plate, you'll sit in a plastic chair because nobody values the chair, the white tablecloth, the maître d', but they'll put on your plate some great food for what used to be available at Applebee's prices. There are some really nice things going on, some external values being delivered to people.

  Ken Moelis

  Nice, White, Years

  Source: nordic.businessinsider.com

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• I used to be really snobby about music. I'm not as snobby as I used to be, though. I have this great bit about not getting mad about music anymore. It just happens when you get older.

  Kurt Braunohler

  Mad, Used, Happens

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There used to be a joke that women need a reason to have sex, while men only need a place. Does policy reflect that juvenile mindset? Such a requirement baffles some women in the real world: a female member of the US Commission on Civil Rights told me, 'I am still trying to wrap my mind around the idea of any two intimates in the world agreeing as to "why.'

  Rush Limbaugh

  Sex, Real, Men

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Agreeing on the "why" takes all the romance out of everything, takes all the seduction. Seduction used to be an art. Now of course it's brutish and it's predatory and it's bad.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Art, Romance, Seduction

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There's a reason why at most major universities and colleges the female-male enrollment is so out of whack. Thirty-five percent male versus 65% female. It used to be just the exact opposite. There's a reason.

  Rush Limbaugh

  College, Opposites, Males

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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