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• I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

  Jo Brand

  Diaries, Miserable, Used

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• There's a general sense that women are more relaxed and less defensive in comedy than they used to be. I think it's easier than it was but underlying it all there is still a pretty sexist view of women on stage, which to me hasn't changed that much.

  Jo Brand

  Thinking, Views, Comedy

  "Jo Brand: fat jokes matter". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2011.

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• In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live.

  Sarah Brightman

  Past, Live For Today, Answers

  Twitter post from Dec 07, 2016

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• Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used to be? No, but I still have the fundamentals and smarts. That's what enables me to still be a dominant player. As a kid growing up, I never skipped steps. I always worked on fundamentals because I know athleticism is fleeting.

  Kobe Bryant

  Growing Up, Smart, Kids

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• Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it's my job, I have no hobby - except watching TV and laying around the pool reading 'U.S. Weekly.' I have tried many hobbies, such as knitting, Pilates, ballet, yoga, and guitar, but none of them have taken.

  Meg Cabot

  Jobs, Yoga, Taken

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• The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.

  James Cameron

  Snakes, World, Forests

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• I used to be able to slim down just by exercising more, but that's changed.

  Mariah Carey

  Exercise, Able, Slim

  "Mariah Carey Flaunts Her Figure in SHAPE’s May Issue". Interview with Amanda Junker, www.shape.com. April 18, 2012.

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• It used to be you needed to have a very large sophisticated state before you could even have a nuclear weapon... Now the technology is widespread enough. It doesn't take very many people to be able to cobble together a devastating attack, and all it takes is one.

  Dick Cheney

  Technology, People, Together

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• Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Eye, Self, Realizing

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• To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession. I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Sorry, Believe

  "What If Jesus Meant All That Stuff?". www.esquire.com. November 18, 2009.

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• There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

  Tom Clancy

  Country, Memorable, Technology

  "Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology". Interview with Sarah Schafer, www.inc.com. December 15, 1995.

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• I don't think coolness used to be such a commodity among adults. And now it is.

  Diablo Cody

  Thinking, Adults, Commodity

  "‘Young Adult’ Writer Diablo Cody: We Never Really Grow Up" by Margaret Bristol, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 09, 2011.

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• Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.

  Stephen Colbert

  Country, Mean, Perception

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. January 25, 2006.

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• I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am?

  Stephen Colbert

  Ice, Why Not, Stuff

  Vanity Fair interview, www.vanityfair.com. June 19, 2007.

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• I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Christian, Jobs, Fairytale

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• I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.

  Elvis Costello

  Inspirational, Life, Bullying

  Song: Red Shoes

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• People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.

  Noel Coward

  Funny, Humorous, People

  Design for Living act 3, sc. 1 (1932)

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• I think that, back in the day, there used to be a lot of horror films that kind of had a checklist of what went into making the 'perfect horror film', and I think now people are raising the bar in the industry, as far as the types of horror films that are being made.

  Elisha Cuthbert

  Thinking, People, Perfect

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• I used to be a great blues singer.

  Roger Daltrey

  Singers, Used

  "Roger Daltrey wants to work with Jimmy Page" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2010.

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• The White House used to be, everybody looked up at the White House and America and everything, and now I think it's like a house of shame.

  Jonathan Davis

  Thinking, White, America

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• I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.

  Snoop Dogg

  Rap, Dope, Games

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

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• Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.

  Arne Duncan

  College, Pay, Used

  "Take politics out of student loans" by Arne Duncan, www.politico.com. June 10, 2012.

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• Yoga has trimmed my body in a way that the gym never could. I used to be a gym rat, but I switched to yoga and am now almost 10 pounds lighter. One important thing I've gotten from yoga is breathing. When I'm cooking, the top part of my body collapses down. It cuts off my diaphragm.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Yoga, Cutting, Gym Rats

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• We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing, individual autonomy and ironic self-doubt; culture means a form of life that is customary, collective, passionate, spontaneous, unreflective and arational.

  Terry Eagleton

  Mean, Reflection, Self

  "Culture conundrum" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2008.

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