"As a point of fact, I am not used to making frequent appearances in public, except at times when it is required."
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"Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it."
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"Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory."
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"The words of the President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately."
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"Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never."
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"Whenever you see the word cuisine used instead of the word food, be prepared to pay an additional eighty percent."
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"I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did."
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"Swearing is an art form. You can express yourself much more exactly, much more succinctly, with properly used curse words."
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"No problem is ever solved in the same consciousness thas was used to create it."
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"I have a limited intelligence and I've used it in a particular direction."
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"He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable."
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"Goosnargh," said Ford Prefect, which was a special Betelgeusian word he used when he knew he should say something but didn't know what it should be."
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"One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence."
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"A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden."
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"I used to wear different rings when I first got called Ringo in about 19, about, umm, '59 I got called Ringo."
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"and love is a word used too much and much too soon."
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"Nostalgia is not what it used to be."
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"So I can say I used to have a waist."
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"Things do not always happen the way I would have wanted, and it's best that I get used to that."
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"I think I get laid less now than I used to, because I’m way more paranoid now."
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