"I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor."
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"In the theory of evolution there is no talk of God and no Bibles are used. They're not looking for higher powers, extraterrestrials, or anything else that could be found in the science fiction section, because they are not dealing with fiction."
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"I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it."
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"As the eldest in the family, I'm used to making unpopular decisions."
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"In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!"
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"My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough."
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"You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist."
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"I used to have the Range Rover LR3, which I loved very, very much."
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"After awhile you could get used to anything."
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"Maybe his heart is searching for and not finding the place it used to live. I understand that because mine is searching and not finding too."
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"Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part."
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"Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing it goes wrong enough."
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"I remember Marvin Gaye used to sing to me, He had me feelin' like black was the thing to be."
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"If you have to run away from something that used to be an idol, you're actually still enslaved by it. It's still controlling you."
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"Marketing used to be what you say Now, marketing is what you do. What you make. How you act. The choices you make when you are sure no one is looking."
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"Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used."
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"I used to beat up kids and bite kids and do stuff all the time."
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"I used to pray to recover you."
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"I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky."
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"Benny [Goodman] used to practice 15 times more than the whole band combined."
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