Used To Be Quotes - Page 34

• I'm getting better now, but I used to be incredibly awkward with girls. I think any guy who says 'I've never had an awkward moment with a girl' is a liar.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Girl, Liars, Lying

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• The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  People, Going Out, I've Learned

  Guardian interview, July 4, 2009.

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• I'm a little less hungry as an actor than I used to be. When you're a director, you're the conductor of the orchestra, and when you're an actor, you're playing the violin. There's a thrill to each of them, but as the conductor, you get the fuller sound.

  Josh Radnor

  Sound, Directors, Thrill

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

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• I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers.

  Harold Ramis

  Spiritual, Believe, Passion

  "Harold Ramis: Expect the Unexpected". Psychology Today interview, www.psychologytoday.com. July 1, 1996.

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• I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.

  Ishmael Reed

  Discipline, Honor, Racist

  Ishmael Reed (1978). “Shrovetide in old New Orleans”, Doubleday Books

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• I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.

  Oliver Reed

  Used

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• When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.

  Keanu Reeves

  Light, Years, Film

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 22, 2012.

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• I used to be homophobic, but as I got older, I realized that wasn't the way to do things. I don't discriminate against anybody for their sexual preference, for their skin color... that's immature.

  ASAP Rocky

  Skin Color, Immature, Skins

  "Jay-Z, Macklemore, ASAP Rocky lead gay-rights shift in hip-hop" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. March 27, 2013.

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• Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere.

  Eli Roth

  Book, Looks, Geek

  "Q&A: Eli Roth on The Last Exorcism Part II and Being Horror's Whipping Boy". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 28, 2013.

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• Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Children, Freedom, Real

  "‘Four Agreements’ Author Don Miguel Ruiz Reveals How Doubt Can Lead To Happiness" by don Miguel Angel Ruiz, don Jose Ruiz, with Janet Mills, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2013.

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• War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.

  Salman Rushdie

  War, People, Watches

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• Nostalgia is, 'Hey, remember the other mall that used to be there?'

  George Saunders

  Hey, Nostalgia, Remember

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• It is a lot harder now to be a police officer than what it used to be.

  Steven Seagal

  Police, Used, Harder

  "Steven Seagal returns to television with 'True Justice,' talks race and border wars". Interview with Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. March 30, 2012.

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• I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd get your supplies, and then you'd use your imagination.

  Amy Sedaris

  Imagination, Hobbies, Use

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• There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed.

  Peter Sellers

  Used

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

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• Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.

  Gail Sheehy

  Sex, Used, Oxymoron

  Gail Sheehy (2006). “Sex and the Seasoned Woman: Pursuing the Passionate Life”, Random House Incorporated

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• I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it.

  Mark E. Smith

  Psychics, Way, Used

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• I used to be a cool chick but I'm not anymore.

  Britney Spears

  Used, Chicks, Paparazzi

  "Britney Spears: 'I Had Let People Into My Life That Were Just Bad People'". Media Screening, www.mtv.com. November 20, 2008.

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• I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.

  Regina Spektor

  Ocean, Cities, Way To Live

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

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• I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.

  Ringo Starr

  Break Up, War, Mean

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• Nike used to be known as Blue Ribbon Sports. What's now Sara Lee used to be Consolidated Foods. And Exxon was once Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. These were name changes that worked. But for all the ones that do, there are 10 or 20 that don't.

  James Surowiecki

  Sports, Nike, Blue

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• There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

  Matt Taibbi

  Literacy, Slave, Reason

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• Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was not a factor - no one made very much except from U.S. sales and the occasional windfall.

  Paul Theroux

  Years, Different, Used

  "Fiction in the Age of E-Books". "The Atlantic" Interview, www.theatlantic.com. 2010.

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• I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.

  Uma Thurman

  Worry, Stressed, Truth Is

  "Uma Thurman says her life is like a reality TV show as she promotes new movie The Life Before Her Eyes". www.mirror.co.uk. March 27, 2009.

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• I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there.

  Linus Torvalds

  Interesting, Looks, Window

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