Used To Be Quotes - Page 33

• A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't get any further, and the heads of each department were changing all the time, so you couldn't have any permanent relationship within the corporation.

  John Lydon

  People, Soul, Records

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• The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take place between all parts of society: politicians, industrialists, artists, citizens, etc. That tradition, I think, still exists, but it's much, much more diluted.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Artist, Thinking, Citizens

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 7, 2013.

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• I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Self, Who I Am, Used

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• It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority. ... And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it.

  Rachel Maddow

  Fighting, Thinking, Long

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• Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.

  Bill Maher

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  Bill Maher (2010). “Does Anybody Have a Problem with That?: The Best of Politically Incorrect”, p.189, Ballantine Books

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• I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.

  Marilyn Manson

  Art, Ties, Imagination

  "Marilyn Manson Likens His New Guitar God to a Naked Woman" by Archive-Chris-Harris, www.mtv.com. October 28, 2005.

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• I'm 45 years old. I used to be a club girl, but that's not my world anymore. That doesn't mean I can't make music that excites. I think it's inspiring to see an artist you grew up with take another crack.

  Shirley Manson

  Girl, Mean, Artist

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• I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that.

  Joyce Maynard

  Girlfriend, Giving, Speech

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• I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

  Russell Means

  Telling The Truth, Weak, Used

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• I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

  Joyce Meyer

  Life, Thank God, May

  Twitter post from Apr 30, 2009

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• My idea of heaven used to be relaxing at home with a cheese plate and champagne.

  Lea Michele

  Home, Ideas, Heaven

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• I used to be able to do the Chinese splits, where you open your legs sideways.

  Kylie Minogue

  Chinese, Legs, Splits

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• What's great in the modern world is that it's becoming easier and easier for people to create without having access to large sums of money. They need access to certain technologies, but the cost is far less than it used to be.

  Helen Mirren

  Technology, People, Becoming

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• I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana.

  Joni Mitchell

  Television, Hamburgers, Used

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• It’s said that All Hallows’ Eve is one of the nights when the veil between the worlds is thin - and whether you believe in such things or not, those roaming spirits probably believe in you, or at least acknowledge your existence, considering that it used to be their own. Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Halloween, Believe, Autumn

  "Magic Moments in Life" by Erin Morgenstern, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• I left Delhi in 1989 and remember very little of how life used to be then. Increasingly, in my recent visits to Delhi, I've started to realize that the city has become intellectually very lively. It makes me want to discover the city over and over again.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cities, Want, Littles

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• It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere.

  Elon Musk

  Running, Ideas, Waiting

  "Elon Musk: Refining Gas Uses More Electricity Than Electric Cars". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. October 26, 2011.

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• Well when I was young, actually not just me, but we were all poor. Korea used to be one of the poorest countries in the world. Despite such circumstances, I was very, very fortunate to be blessed with having parents who always instilled in a spirit of can-do spirit.

  Lee Myung-bak

  Country, Blessed, Korea

  Interview with Anjlai Rao, edition.cnn.com. April 18, 2008.

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• Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it's all gone sideways.

  Susan Orlean

  Girlfriend, Children, Boys

  "The Social Index" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 5, 2010.

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• My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend, I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on, and I would record it in my Filofax calendar.

  Susan Orlean

  Birthday, Calendars, Records

  "Birthday Alert" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. July 14, 2011.

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• A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

  Cesare Pavese

  Single, Loneliness, Boys

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.202, Transaction Publishers

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• My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away.

  Jacques Pepin

  Add, Chef, Used

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• I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I'd get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I've since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her.

  Matthew Perry

  Girl, Real, Stress

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• Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions.

  John Podhoretz

  Animal, Two, Comedian

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• All women need support when they're having their babies and their little families are in formation. I have to say I have a lot of concern about the numbers of women - and men, now - who are not getting the support that they need. There are not the families and the communities around that there used to be.

  Quentin Bryce

  Baby, Men, Numbers

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