"When I was younger, I used to say, One day I'll be famous."
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"I used to have nightmares that they would put 'He played Ted' on my tombstone."
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"there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don't understand; and the other is, to tell them what they're used to."
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"[Humor] could be dicey for a therapist and needs to be used very deftly."
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"Fighters used to be afraid of the Russians, Cubans but then I'd figure them out and figure out how to beat them."
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"A life well used procures a happy death."
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"I never even realized I was Jewish until I was practically grown up. Or rather, I used to feel that everybody in the world was Jewish, which amounts to the same thing."
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"I have a short temper - I think it's part of the Celtic background. I used to be a lot more angry, but I was quite discreet with it."
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"I used to love ninja movies. That was my thing."
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"Knowledge itself is never dangerous, it is how that knowledge is used that is dangerous"
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"Happiness was a term of hypocrisy used to bluff other people."
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"The change which the writing wrought in me (and of which I did not write) was only a beginning; only to prepare me for the gods' surgery. They used my own pen to probe my wound."
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"But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that is going to be Human and isn’t yet, or used to be Human once and isn’t now, or ought to be Human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet."
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"The very technologies that empower us to do great good can also be used to undermine us and inflict great harm."
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"There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political."
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"The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless."
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"I'm not really comfortable singing without accompanying myself on stage - I'm not used to it."
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"It was a period when they used to read into our lyrics a lot, used to think there was more in them than there was."
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"My brother's researched our early family history. He found a letter from a fella who said he used to be in love with my mum."
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"That's the problem, we do get used to things."
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