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“I'm in hotel rooms night after night, playing a lot of the same venues as my dad and carrying the guitar that used to be his. We're the same person. I don't know if he realises how much of a legacy he has left to his children.”

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Author:Martha Wainwright

“Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.”

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Author:Leonard Baskin

“I used to be so aggressive, but after a while I started learning. It's not that I know how to adapt, but I know all styles of fighting so I can change my style of fighting to whatever it needs to be. That just comes from years of training and a lot of sparring partners.”

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Author:Marlen Esparza

“My problem is that I always find jeans that are either high-waisted or low-rise, but nothing in between, like they used to be in the eighties and early nineties. That's actually the most flattering cut.”

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Author:Georgia May Jagger

“Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.”

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Author:Jose Padilha

“It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to.”

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Author:Edwin Starr

“I used to be a street singer in San Francisco.”

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Author:Gedde Watanabe

“I'm something that I used to be. I'm never where I feel I am, and if I seek myself, I don't know who's seeking me. My boredom with everything has numbed me. I feel banished from my soul.”

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Book:The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“We see the most beautiful creations whither. The beautiful young maiden becomes the old woman and she hates her body because it isn't what it used to be. The young man becomes the old dotard who has trouble remembering.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“I grew up going to musicals with my mom here in New York, going to Broadway. I used to be in musicals in high school.”

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Author:Sharon Van Etten

“The marriages come and go but your friendships stay, which is the opposite of what it used to be, so that there will be people in our lives for 30 years and often it is not your husband, it's your women friends, male friends with whom you come of age.”

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Author:Wendy Wasserstein

“When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.”

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Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

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

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Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“I'll get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so people will know how we used to live.”

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Author:Grandma Moses

“Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power.”

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Book:The Courage to Create

Source: The Courage to Create

“If you live in Ohio and you don't wear scarlet and gray now, you're an oddball. And it used to be that you could go around town even in Columbus and see a bunch of people in Michigan shirts ... And that's horrible, isn't it?.”

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Author:Dave Foley

“It is interesting sometimes to stop and think and wonder what the place you are currently at used to be like in times past, who walked there, who worked there and what the walls have seen.”

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Author:Patrick Geddes

“I've been accused of deliberately hamming up my accent and dropping letters, but that's just how I speak - I used to be a chav.”

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Author:Kate Nash

“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.”

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Author:Zach Galifianakis

“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.”

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Author:Zach Galifianakis

“If it is true, as used to be said, that oversalting means the cook is in love, at least one cook at Le Cirque must be head over heels.”

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Author:Mimi Sheraton

“Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a boon to happiness.”

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Author:Michael Kimmelman

“The Schools ain't what they used to be and never was.”

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Author:Will Rogers

“I read where they are going to limit debate in the Senate. It used to be that a man could talk all day, but now, as soon as he tells all he knows, he has to sit down. Most of these birds will just be getting up and nodding now. Why, some of them won't be able to answer roll call.”

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Book:The Will Rogers scrapbook

Source: The Will Rogers scrapbook

“I love two-lane highways. They say something about the way things used to be, and about areas that don't have a lot of people. On those two-lanes at night you get the sense of moving into the unknown, and that's as thrilling a sense as human beings can have.”

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Author:David Lynch

“I arrived at my hut in Beverly Hills just in time to keep real estate men from plotting off and selling my front yard. They will sell you anything or anybody's in the world as long as they can get a first payment... It used to be only Iowa that was out here but now they have three or four adjoining states interested and they are here, too. Real estate agents - you never saw as many in your life; they are as thick as bootleggers.”

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Author:Will Rogers

“And if you call one a real estate agent and he won't sell you anything. He is a REALATOR. It's the same as what the old fashioned real estate agent used to be only the commission is different.”

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Book:Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding

Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding

“The Indians used to be the only inhabitants of the Americas, but times change. Having perceived us as belonging to history, they are free to emote over us, to re-create us in their history-based understanding, and dismiss our present lives as archaic and irrelevant to the times.”

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Book:The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

Source: The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

“I've weaned myself down to about, on a great day, on a really great day, three cigarettes. For a nicotine junkie the essential cigs are three: the first-of-the-day cigarette smoked after lunch, the after-dinner cigarette and then the one taken whenever you want - the luxury-wild-card smoke. It used to be quite a bit more. It used to be, I'd smoke the table. I'd smoke the patch. I'd smoke the gum. So I feel good about it.”

“Mercy, mercy me, things ain't what they used to be.”

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Author:Marvin Gaye

“I used to be really influenced by Brian Bendis, back in his indie days. But I guess I try to tone that down.”

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Author:Bryan Lee O'Malley

“I think kids have got to learn how to work with what's happening, work with social, work with everything. To complain about how things aren't the way they used to be.”

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Author:Diplo

“The very things I used to be told off for - daydreaming, exaggerating, making mistakes, wild guessing, contradicting, spying, being obsessive, being reckless - for these, suddenly, I am being praised.”

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Author:Selima Hill

“I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life.”

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Author:Oskar Kokoschka

“To be gay and out of shape is almost as much of a stigma as just being gay used to be.”

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Author:Bruce Vilanch

“Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's performances so troubled the onlookers that they feared their ghosts. An awesome compliment. Those players moved the audience not such that they were admitted to a school, or received a complimentary review, but such that the audience feared for their soul. Now that seems to me something to aim for.”

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Author:David Mamet

“Used to be all I'd want to learn was wisdom, trust and truth, now all I really want to learn is Forgiveness for you”

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Author:Ed Roland

“Isn't it sad, that in a time when we face so many devastating problems - poverty, HIV/AIDS, war and conflict - that in our Communion we should be investing so much time and energy on disagreement about sexual orientation? [The Communion, which] used to be known for embodying the attribute of comprehensiveness, of inclusiveness, where we were meant to accommodate all and diverse views, saying we may differ in our theology but we belong together as sisters and brothers [now seems] hell-bent on excommunicating one another. God must look on and God must weep.”

“It used to be said of a man who had suffered a catastrophic setback in his line of work that he had been handed his head on a platter. We are being handed our heads with tweezers now.”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldn't have to come in contact with it.”

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Author:Susan Orlean

“Erotic practices have become diversified. Sex used to be a single-crop farming, like cotton or wheat; now people raise all kinds of things.”

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Author:Saul Bellow

“I used to be a chemical-engineering student, but I started studying acting, and I went for a cattle call, up against hundreds of people. They tore me down because I was too tall. They said "How tall are you?" "6'5"." "Next."”

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Author:Dolph Lundgren

“City's effort to end homelessness among veterans is different than how things used to be in L.A.”

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Author:John Carlos Frey

“The most nervous I've ever been was on a 250 pound music video which is the first thing I ever did. And I stepped on there with a directing partner, so I could blame him when everything went tits up. But since then my nerves have incrementally decreased so I'm not plagued by the same sense of nerves as I used to be.”

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Author:Guy Ritchie

“I'm better than I used to be. Better than I was yesterday. But hopefully not as good as I'll be tomorrow.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“It's basically against the whole idea of what always made rock&roll music interesting to me. I thought it was an unassailable outlet for some pure and natural expressions of rebellion. It was one channel you could take without havin' to kiss ass, you know? And right now it just seems like they're on a big daisy chain, each kissin' each other's asses.”

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Author:Keith Richards

“My engineer dad is where my technical acumen comes from. I remember him taking me to the factories to see how what works. Often he used to open up his motorbike to fix things and I saw how the wheels worked. His car used to be open for dissection very regularly. All this taught me and inspired me to look beyond what I could see on the skin.”

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Author:Bibhu Mohapatra

“The future just isn't what it used to be”

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Book:Plan B: A Novel

Source: Plan B: A Novel

“I've always felt that my relationship to the United States is analogous to a marriage. I love this country. I hate it. I get angry at it. I feel close to it. I'm charmed by it. I'm repelled by it. And it's a marriage that's gone on for let's say at least 50 years of my writing life, and in the course of that, what's happened? It's gotten worse. It's not what it used to be.”

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Author:Norman Mailer

“How many of you guys, in your own experience with women, have learned that "no" means "yes" if you know how to spot it? Let me tell you something. In this modern world, that is simply not tolerated. People aren't even gonna try to understand that one. I mean, it used to be said it was a cliche. It used to be part of the advice young boys were given.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

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