Used To Be Quotes - Page 31

• My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

  Eminem

  Looks, Mature, Used

  "Eminem speaks out in favour of gay marriage" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2010.

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• Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

  Vera Farmiga

  Ambition, Thinking, Ambitious

  "Vera Farmiga: 'I demand a lot from myself'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2011.

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• We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days.

  Paul Feig

  Comedy, Used, Old Days

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• It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another.

  Colin Firth

  Loser, Used, Paranoid

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• For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style.

  Renee Fleming

  Style, Singing, Used

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• Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.

  Al Franken

  Bob, Be Kind, Sense Of Humor

  Interview with Richard Blow, www.motherjones.com. November, 1996.

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• I used to be very insecure about my curly hair, because I lived in a country where everybody had blonde straight hair.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Country, Insecure, Curly Hair

  "Diane von Furstenberg: Unwrapped". Interview with Anamaria Wilson, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 14, 2009.

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• I used to be really cute. I could send you earlier photos where I'm stunning. But I've gained about twenty pounds over the past two years, and the more weight I've put on, the more success I've had. If you drew a diagram of weight gain and me getting more work, a mathematician would draw some conclusions from that.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Cute, Past, Years

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• Actually, I used to be a busboy in a strip joint in New York and so I hate strip joints. I'm not that kind of person.

  Zach Galifianakis

  New York, Hate, Joints

  "Zach Galifianakis: A Comedic Actor Takes A Dark Turn". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 29, 2010.

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• I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be.

  Robin Gibb

  Long, World, Wonder

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

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• You reflect on the people who used to be in your life, and it's like, 'Wow, I can't believe that person was ever really in my life.' But people are put into your life for seasons, for different reasons, and to teach you lessons.

  Selena Gomez

  Believe, People, Different

  "Exclusive Interview: Selena Gomez". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. May 3, 2011.

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• I am Al Gore, and I used to be the next president of the United States of America.

  Al Gore

  America, President, Als

  "An Inconvenient Truth". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected.

  Al Gore

  Golden, Boundaries, Reason

  Al Gore (2009). “Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis”, Rodale Books

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• I changed the face of comedy. I used to be funny.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Faces, Comedy, Used

  Interview with John DeBellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2009.

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• Reality TV has totally destroyed soap operas. They're gone. They used to be the biggest thing in the world - they're gone.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Reality, Gone, World

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• I used to be obsessed with Pearl Jam, but I love having pink hair and kind of looking like a Barbie.

  Ellie Goulding

  Hair, Barbie, Jam

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

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• Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer's patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things.

  Ellie Goulding

  Dad, Home, Alzheimer's

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

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• It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every man that could do great deeds and not be making much talk about them, was of the Sons of the Gael; and that every skilled man that had music and that did enchantments secretly, was of the Tuatha de Danaan.

  Lady Gregory

  Fighting, Son, Men

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.87, eBookIt.com

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• I judge my life by how miserable it used to be. If I could pay my rent, I was deliriously happy. Now I'm deliriously happy all the time.

  Matt Groening

  Judging, Pay, Miserable

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• All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.

  Sammy Hagar

  Way, Different, Would Be

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• Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

  Stephen Hawking

  Travel, Space, Rockets

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• I used to be a hot-tar roofer. Yeah, I remember that... day.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Hot

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• My worst habit used to be smoking but I quit.

  Katherine Heigl

  Smoking, Quitting, Habit

  "Katherine Heigl's 18-Month-Old Daughter Already Using Curse Words?" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. May 28, 2010.

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• People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Funny, Thinking, People

  "Tales of Hoffman" by Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2000.

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• It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game.

  Kin Hubbard

  Games, Police, Today

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