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Fran McDormand was great because she said, 'What I used to do when I worked with him was I would just walk on the set and I would give him a big hug. Somehow his guard would just drop.' So I took that advice.

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

"Freedom" is probably the word he said more than any other. He used the word freedom constantly. I think for some his frequent calls for freedom became a cliché because he did it so often. They didn't get it, but Reagan certainly did. He thought deeply about the relationship between God and human freedom and the nonrelationship between atheistic communism and that freedom.

Frequently these loaded images or objects are used by me without my attaching a particular significance to them. In other words, what I'm doing is letting whatever power, whatever affect they have, work on its own.

Friend of mine just told me he used to be a bad alcoholic. I calmed him down. Told him he was a good alcoholic just a horrible drinker.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

From my conversations with Lance Armstrong and experiences with Lance and the team I am aware that Lance used blood transfusions from 2001 through 2005.

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

Fulfillment leaves an empty space where longing used to be.

Fur used to turn heads, now it turns stomachs.

Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions.

Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively.

Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is used to cut diamonds.

Get used to the bear behind you.

Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.

Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it.

God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.

God used words to create this planet, so be careful with them.

Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often fished and finding the woods as deep and cool as they used to be.

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.

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?

Granddaddy used to handle snakes in church. Granny drank strychnine. I guess you could say I had a leg up, genetically speaking.

Handicaps are really to be used another way to benefit yourself and others.

Have confidence in yourself - don't let yourself be used.

Having a dance background, I became used to rejection at an early age. Dance is very competitive, especially for a sensitive person like me. But I realized it’s better not to take it so seriously. If you beat yourself up, it’s hard to keep going.

Havin' cash is highly addictive, especially when you're used to havin' money to live with.

Her grandmother used to tell her that a pink sky meant someone in the distance had just fallen in love . . . .

Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed to sanctify our fears, crimes, and aspirations, also reveal them for what they are.

He caught her as if he were used to catching fainting girls, as if he did it everyday.

Here we are surrounded by material that's being manufactured in unimaginable quantities worldwide and is used everywhere. I don't like it, no one likes it, and yet it's pervasive. We don't even see it.

He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable.

He used to be fairly indecisive, but now he's not so certain.

He wasn't surprised. He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you've done all the work to get something you don't even want it anymore.

He was used to being playful with women, teasing while keeping ultimate control. With Luna, he felt like a berserk marauder. He couldn't even spell control, much less utilize it.

He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.

He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.

He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its infancy.

Hey! Who stole my collection of used bandages?! And they also got away with my nude pictures of Ernest Borgnine!

High definition ruined a lot of things that I used to hold sacrosanct in pornography.

History can be a weapon, and it can be used against you.

Hillary Clinton used the State Department to enrich their family at America's expense.

History, in other words, is just a device to be used by well-paid boobherds to drive the American cattle in bovine content to their pastures or to the abattoir.

His most frequent ailment was the headache which he used to relieve by inhaling the steam of coffee.

History shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself sufficient to stifle dissent. A citizenry that is aware of always being watched quickly becomes a compliant and fearful one.

How dare we be pessimistic? Maybe the future is better than it used to be.

How come the term 'threesome' is always used in a sexual context? What, nobody plays string instruments any more?

How come I end up where I started How come I end up where I belong... You used to be alright What happened?

How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

How I feel is cheap and used, dirty and humiliated. Dirty and tricked and thrown away.

However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable.