"History is anomalous, and there is no way to get used to it."
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"He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there."
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"Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.” “Sir?” “It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority.” “Sir?” “That’s practically zen."
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"What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?"
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"Don't ever admit you know a thing about cooking or it'll be used against you."
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"My old life - no amount of getting used to it would have made it right."
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"I used to be, like, "Sleep when I die.""
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"Because Eddie [Murphy] came from where I come from, the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. People in the projects used to call me Fat Murphy."
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"It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click and jump and page."
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"The music has to be as interesting. It has to keep taking you into places that you're at least not used to."
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"I can't drink whiskey like I used to back then, that's for sure."
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"Not changing your strategy merely because you're used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy."
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"I'm used to short distances and short bursts of energy; it was just fastest"
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"Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim."
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"I'm not used to studios being ecstatic about we did and saying, "Please go do that again.""
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"Because I know what it feels like to be used, valued only for what you can do... not who you are, not who you want to be."
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"I'm not as snarky as I used to be."
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"The time you waste now you'll wish you used well at the end."
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"I used to dream, and I used to vow; I wouldn't dream of it now."
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"I used to be a narrator for bad mimes."
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