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“It used to be the custom for the bachelor dinner to take place the night before the wedding. Now, however, the bridesmaids' and ushers' dinner is usually on that night, for a groom realizes that he and his attendants need some time in which to recover sufficiently to be able to distinguish the altar from the organ and walk up the aisle with no mishaps.”

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Book:No Nice Girl Swears

Source: No Nice Girl Swears

“I do not think that the nerve of the modern child is any too good; how can one expect it, brought up as they are amongst all the horrors of civilization. The 'daring' child who used to be common enough, is seldom met nowadays.”

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Author:Muriel Wace

“It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.”

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Author:Terry Bradshaw

“I am a big Beatles fan. And, you know, unbeknownst to anyone, I used to be one. But I have no problems of putting titles and lines from other songs in my songs, because they're great lines and great titles.”

Knows Problem Bigs Used Song Lines Fans Used To Be Titles No Problem

Author:Ringo Starr

“I believe anything that anyone tells me. I have found that that is the best way to go through life. When I was younger, I used to be more skeptical, but then I found out that most things were true. So I believe tabloids. I believe legends. I believe anything anyone tells me.”

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Author:Justin Kirk

“I've got a friend who is a lion tamer. He used to be a school teacher till he lost his nerve.”

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Author:Les Dawson

“Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, Youve got such a pretty face; why dont you lose some weight? Over the years Ive realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.”

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Author:Vidya Balan

“I used to be cruel to my woman, and physically - any woman. I was a hitter. I couldn't express myself and I hit. I fought men and I hit women. That is why I am always on about peace, you see. It is the most violent people who go for love and peace. Everything's the opposite. But I sincerely believe in love and peace. I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence. I will have to be a lot older before I can face in public how I treated women as a youngster.”

Source: The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono

“You just may be a redneck if your lawn furniture used to be your living room furniture.”

Ifs May Home Used House Rooms Used To Be Furniture Redneck Living Room Lawns

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.”

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Author:Robin Wasserman

“It used to be said, not so long ago, that every suicide gave Satan special pleasure. I don't think that's true-unless it isn't true either that the Devil is a gentleman. If the Devil has no class at all, then okay, I agree: He gets a bang out of suicide. Because suicide is a mess. As a subject for study, suicide is perhaps uniquely incoherent. And the act itself is without shape and without form. The human project implodes, contorts inward-shameful, infantile, writhing, gesturing. It's a mess in there.”

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Author:Martin Amis

“I'm a lot more self-confident than I used to be. To some extent I owe that to my children and my husband.”

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Author:Claudia Schiffer

“Just looking at pictures used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with no words are now accepted as reading.”

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Author:Jon Scieszka

“Today, the global warming alarmists are the equivalent of the flat-Earthers. It used to be [that] it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.”

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Author:Ted Cruz

“Americans used to be able to depend on their jobs to provide a stable retirement.”

Able Jobs Used Depends Used To Be Retirement Stable

Author:Keith Ellison

“It used to be you had real friends on the other side of the aisle. Its not like that anymore. Society has changed. The public is to blame as well. I think the people have gotten dumber.”

People Thinking Wells Real Used Sides Changed Blame Used To Be Be You Real Friends Aisle

Author:Gary Ackerman

“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.”

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Author:Sammy Hagar

“I used to be a serious sneaker addict, but I've moved on a little bit from those days.”

Littles Used Bits Serious Little Bit Moved Used To Be Addict Moved On Sneakers I've Moved On

Author:Mark Ronson

“I feel like I see life differently. I see it as this amazing challenge that I look forward to every day. I never used to see life as that. It used to be just this thing you went through and had a good time. Now I have responsibilities to myself, my family, my fans that I have to uphold. It's more exciting this way and way more rewarding.”

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Author:Kris Allen

“Being a conservative also used to involve the concept of people being free to do whatever they want to do, as long as it doesn't hurt somebody else. Conservatives used to be very libertarian.”

People Want Long Used Hurt Concepts Conservative Libertarian Used To Be Being Free

Author:Bill Maher

“Nowadays New-York is not the exciting place it used to be. It still has great energy; I still put my finger in the socket. But it doesn't feel alive, cracking with that synergy between the art world and music world and fashion world that was happening in the 80s. A lot of people died.”

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Author:Madonna Ciccone

“As a kid, I was a little self-conscious because I was so much taller than everyone. A bad habit of mine used to be slouching. Eventually, I realized my height was something I couldn't control, so I might as well accept it. I've certainly turned it into a positive, because without my height I probably wouldn't be as good of a tennis player. It's a gift, and I've made something of it.”

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Author:John Isner

“When you take away the subsistence economy, then your farm population is seriously exposed to the vagaries of the larger economy. As it used to be, the subsistence economy carried people through the hard times, and what you might call the housewife's economy of cream and eggs often held these farms and their families together.”

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Author:Wendell Berry

“Being a CEO used to be something you did for 15 years. Now you do it for five, maybe. The lifespan is getting shorter and shorter, regardless if you are a man or a woman.”

Ifs Men Years Used Five Used To Be Ceo

Author:Michel Martin

“Many people are dreaming. Let me rent. Let me have a job. Let me work until I'm 70. That's not what the American Dream used to be. It used to be, let me own a home. Let me retire at 59 and a half or 65 at the latest. Let me do this. And now, really, given what's happened, good luck with anything happening unless you do it yourself.”

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Author:Suze Orman

“This used to be among my prayers - a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden”

Used Prayer Pieces Land Garden Used To Be

Author:Horace

“I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best known books, the Mortal Engines series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future.”

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Author:Philip Reeve

“Philosophy used to be a field that had content, but then natural philosophy became physics, and physics has only continued to make inroads. Every time theres a leap in physics, it encroaches on these areas that philosophers have carefully sequestered away to themselves, and so then you have this natural resentment on the part of philosophers.”

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Author:Lawrence M. Krauss

“I used to be afraid of things like strokes, but I've now discovered that the fear of the stroke is worse than the stroke itself.”

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Author:Ram Dass

“While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, 'When are you playing for the nation?' - a question which I didn't have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.”

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Author:Rahul Dravid

“Broadway's not what it used to be.”

Used Used To Be Broadway

Author:Betty Comden

“Ferrari used to be the car that you kept in your garage, took out to polish and show, and put back into the garage.”

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Author:Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

“It used to be presumed that if you weren't at your desk working, you weren't working. But we said, why can't we make a workplace where casual meetings are as important as working at your desk? Sometimes that's where your better creative work happens.”

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Author:David Chipperfield

“Fashion shows used to be more crazy. Now they've become a bit too serious.”

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Author:Carine Roitfeld

“I used to be a real doctor. Now I just play one on TV.”

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Author:Richard Carmona

“For what I can imagine and feel and think and hear, I can hardly do anything on the acoustic bass. It used to be just pure frustration of imagining so much more and being able to get to a certain level of execution.”

Thinking Feels I Can Able Used Certain Levels Imagine Pure Used To Be Frustration Execution Bass Acoustics

Author:Esperanza Spalding

“There's not as much money in Washington as they're used to be!”

Used Used To Be

Author:George W. Bush

“Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; thats what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say, history, which is written down and stored in an archive.”

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Author:Jill Lepore

“Norbert Blei is a writer the way people used to be troubadours and minstrels, celebrating what he has seen and heart and felt in a deceptively simple style reminiscent of the early Sherwood Anderson. . . . Like Anderson, he is a lover, and his affection invests his writing with a singular charm.”

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Author:Sydney J. Harris

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