"There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not."
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"I used a bike in London and that's it. I learnt a lot about biking, and really got into. Now I cycle regularly."
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"I have gotten used to working in the dark and I dig it."
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"Failure isn't really an option because, as my grandmother used to say, "Nothing beats a failure but a try.""
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"Willpower is that thing CEOs and professional athletes tell us they used to make it to the top."
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"Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it's damaging."
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"There is nothing nicer than a kitchen really made for a cook. Things that are designed to be used always have an innate beauty."
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"I’ve always thought you are what you are and you shouldn’t pretend to be anyone else. But Oliver used to correct me and explain that you are whoever it is you’re pretending to be."
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"Tis nothing when you are used to it."
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"I used to sing Bill Monroe songs. And I'd sing Dennis Day songs like songs that he sang on the Jack Benny show."
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"You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus."
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"And people are moody, dude. You gotta get used to living with people."
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"Some ghosts haunt you for life. The best you can do is make room on the couch and get used to living with them."
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"Number 45 doesn't explode like Number 23 used to."
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"Being a CEO used to be something you did for 15 years. Now you do it for five, maybe. The lifespan is getting shorter and shorter, regardless if you are a man or a woman."
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"For many years, I used to pray as an act of power, but that was before I had 100% faith in myself."
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"It is quite unsettling looking into someone's eyes, especially when you aren't used to it."
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"Intelligence can be used to manipulate."
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"It used to be said of a man who had suffered a catastrophic setback in his line of work that he had been handed his head on a platter. We are being handed our heads with tweezers now."
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"We used to have superb public schools. I guess we don't anymore, but, boy, the public schools were really something and I am a product of those in Indianapolis."
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