"Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the the freedom that exists in the world of insanity and becomes addicted to it."
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"No one should let themselves get used to anything."
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"Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances."
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"How dare we be pessimistic? Maybe the future is better than it used to be."
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"I was one of the first post-studio artists. I used to do my works in the streets. I used to find them in the streets, and I used to leave them in the streets."
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"The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts."
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"Floating screw - that's what people used to call me."
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"It appears that legal positions that you have supported have been used by the administration, the military, and the CIA to justify torture and Geneva Convention violations by military and civilian personnel."
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"It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to."
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"There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them."
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"I come from a very religious background.And actually I remained in it. All my anger I describe in my quarrels with God in Auschwitz, but you know I used to pray every day."
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"It sucks. I used to be governor of New York."
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"It used to be that god was revealed in the wonders of nature; now God was being challenged by those same wonders. Scholars were now required to choose one side or the other."
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"The word must is not to be used to princes."
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"I used to not back down from a challenge."
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"the thing is you can get used to anything you think you cant you want to die but you dont you cant you just are"
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"That's what life is all about. There's a lot of crying. So you'd better cry now and get used to it."
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"I used to do Facebook but you get a little too wrapped up in that stuff. Its more distracting than anything so I don't any more. I left it behind. I detoxed!"
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"When I was younger, they used to tease me. And now they’re quite protective."
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"Originally what I used to love was being on a stage and reacting to a live audience and maybe my calling is more in theatre."
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