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• We have long had emigration in Ireland. But the nature of emigration has changed. With ferries to Britain and the continent, as well as air travel, emigration isn't the cut­off it used to be. In addition, some of our young people are being educated to levels beyond our present capacity to provide the jobs they are qualified to do. So they go abroad. Many want to come back, especially when they have children they would want to be raised in the Irish society and in the Irish educational system.

  Mary Robinson

  Jobs, Children, Educational

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• The governments are seen to be less effective than they used to be. The private sector is perceived as being so much more efficient, and so globalization implies a transfer of power to the private sector.

  Mary Robinson

  Government, Globalization, Used

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Today's Democrats are pretty much what used to be called moderate Republicans a generation ago.

  Noam Chomsky

  Generations, Today, Republican

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I don't think we're the screaming femme fatale running away from danger as much as we used to be. I think people are seeing us as much more multi-layered personalities with desires, and wants, and needs as much as any male figure out there.

  Barbara Crampton

  Running, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• The thing I see happening is that there's a real compression between generations. There used to be about 20 years difference (in technology use). Now you talk to 15-year-old kids and their 9-year-old brother or sister is using stuff that they don't understand.

  Paul Saffo

  Brother, Real, Kids

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Of course, the toxic bullshit of incessant advertising and show biz for nearly a century has stripped us of cognitive abilities for dealing with reality that used to be part of the normal equipment of adulthood - for instance, knowing the difference between wishing for stuff and making stuff happen. We bamboozled ourselves with too much magic.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Reality, Differences, Knowing

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• There are some exceptions: Chicago, my hometown, in particular. But overall in the country this is a much safer place than it used to be.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Chicago, Hometown

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Hey, folks, look at all the damage that Bill Clinton has done to feminism. First, oral sex is not sex now. You got a Lewinsky, it isn't sex. And sexual harassment, you know what it used to be? All you had to have for sexual harassment was for a superior in your office to use his power to have his way with you, no matter whether you wanted it or not. Now that's out the window. Because we can't, of course, have Bill Clinton said to have engaged in sexual harassment. No way. Not gonna happen.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Sex, Office, Feminism

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• When I came to Harvard, there were no tenured women except one, who was in a chair reserved for a woman. It's still an uphill battle, and I encountered great sexism in parts of my career, but I have to say that things are a lot better than they used to be. There are many women today doing wonderful work all over the academy.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Careers, Battle, Today

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Wrestling used to be interesting. There was a bit of sham involved, of course, but there was some real wrestling involved. They're just characters now. It's unrecognizable. There's no fighting in American bloody wrestling. They just yell at each other and jump around like overweight ballet dancers.

  Shane MacGowan

  Real, Character, Wrestling

  Source: shanemacgowan.com

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• The theater used to be a place where you look like a human being. Now people look like they just got out of bed.

  Peter Cincotti

  People, Bed, Looks

  Source: wwd.com

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• The postcard is sacred to me. It makes me sad that no one sends them very much anymore because of email and texting. I still like to buy them, but they've lost their original function and now just seem like reminders or mementos of what they used to be.

  Elaine Equi

  Sacred, Email, Texting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I was younger, I used to be very impatient with anyone who wasn't doing overtly political work. I've since come to feel that some writers have an appetite or a need for the political, for political discourse, for historical political subjects.

  Tony Kushner

  Political, Historical, Needs

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We used to be one of the richest countries in the world, but we are now on a path towards under-development. This austerity that has been imposed on the people doesn't work. The people will not allow themselves to be throttled without revolting.

  Marine Le Pen

  Country, People, Development

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I thought that the R&B / Hip-Hop world really hasn't been explored on film and there's some issues that we're going through right now. It's in a very dangerous place , for women especially, both in terms of the songs that men are singing about. You know, R&B used to be a safe place for women and now it just seems like the songs coming out are so angry but also what women have to come out with. You have to get noticed. You see, it's like a script to follow. You come out hyper sexualized but what happens when you can't pull back from that. That's not authentic to yourself.

  Gina Prince-Bythewood

  Song, Men, Issues

  Source: thesource.com

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• You have to really swallow your pride and admit that you want to make a comeback. And that means that you weren't at your best and I feel like I stopped being who I needed to be. When I started making this record "Born Villain", I didn't want to be what I used to be but I certainly didn't want to be what I was at the time. I knew that I was supposed to be something better then what I was. I feel that I am close to being what I'm supposed to be and am enjoying what I'm doing here.

  Marilyn Manson

  Mean, Pride, Records

  Source: archive.azcentral.com

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• I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.

  Mitch Albom

  Believe, Mean, Average

  CNN Interactive's Tuesday Book Chat, www.cnn.com. 2001.

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• I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.

  Alan Alda

  Catholic, Doe, Shapes

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

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• This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.

  Gracie Allen

  Government, Balance, Used

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• I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between songs. Now, rather than trying to talk or do a costume change, I'll use those moments for myself. I listen to what other people are playing, or just rest, or dance, even though I don't know how to.

  Fiona Apple

  Song, Thinking, People

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. June 4, 2012.

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• It was hard to get guys to notice me, period, because I was so skinny and all my friends were curvy. Plus, I used to be very nervous in front of guys.

  Tyra Banks

  Guy, Skinny, Nervous

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• Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?

  Lynda Barry

  Children, Wall, Kids

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• The future ain't what it used to be.

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Future, Yankees

  Yogi Berra (2010). “What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• I used to be hung up on my figure, but it's a waste of time. I don't believe in diets. Have four pints one night, be healthy the next.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Believe, Night, Healthy

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• What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

  Bono

  Birthday, Dream, Song

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