"Oh, the strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!"
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"I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto."
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"Your heart opens and of course you're completely panicked because you're used to guarding this organ with your life."
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"I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time."
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"Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror."
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"I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend."
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"I used to want you so bad, I'm so through with that because honestly you turned out to be the best thing I never had!"
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"I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child, too. I hadn't known that before; I thought I was just short."
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"I used to imagine what it would be like to do what Jim Brown was doing. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Tony Dorsett. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Walter Payton. I was imagining Emmitt Smith doing exactly what they were doing."
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"If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings."
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"I used to be sceptic, but not anymore, because now I am positive that I'm getting screwed."
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"No fashion is ever a success unless it is used as a form of seduction."
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"If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark."
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"Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it."
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"Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'."
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"Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him beat me too when I am absent."
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"I ain't what I used to be, but who the hell is?"
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"you don't need to be better than any one else you just need to be better than you used to be"
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"Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped."
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"It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone."
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