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There is nothing wrong with violence in itself. In any particular case, whether violence is good or bad depends on how it is used and the purpose for which it is used.

There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.

There's a dance that happens with you and that's why I really like doing it with stunt men, because they know how to dance generally better than actors do. It is choreography and if you aren't used to doing it things can go wrong.

There's a lot of smoke being blown at you, but this is no new sport to me; I've been doing it a long time, I'm used to it and I see it coming immediately the minute it gets into our realm.

There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.

there's not a boy on the planet worth this amount of angst. I know; i used to be one

There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.

There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only truth there was to learn was that there was no getting used to it.

There was a time - and I used to get made fun of a lot - that all I collected was soundtracks

There was a time when I used to go to Mexico every year. But then Mexico changed a lot - between 1995 and 2005, Mexico changed a lot.

there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.

There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves.

There will come a day when the phone doesn't ring as much as it used to.

These are used solely for Blood Rites. (Leo) Is that like special ed? (Susan)

The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it's the only one that makes the other virtues possible.

The same energy used to point out someone's flaws, can be used to work on your own.

The same skills that I used as a welder, as a migrant farm worker, are similar skills that I'm using as a brain surgeon.

These activities can be misconstrued, misinterpreted, and used to harm you as an individual even without the government having any intent to do you wrong.

The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.

The slogan used to be 'Populate or perish'. We can now see that it is more like 'Populate and perish'. A sustainable future has to be based on stabilisation of both population and consumption.

The State should have made sure the money given to the NGOs was used according to a global plan for Haiti; not doing whatever they want. They should be supervised and have to report and make sure the money is being used properly. They are here, but we are seeing no results.

The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway.

The Tao is like a well; used but never used up.

The storms of life can be used for good in our lives if we let them drive our spirits higher and closer to God.

The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.

The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.

The theater community at large, I have to say, has just been so warm and so welcoming, and that's not something I'm as used to.

the thing is you can get used to anything you think you cant you want to die but you dont you cant you just are

The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again.

The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence.

The truth is I don't feel too bad for my age. I actually have a better shape now than I used to.

The very technologies that empower us to do great good can also be used to undermine us and inflict great harm.

The Voice has been politically correct in many of its aspects since before that term was ever used.

... the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race forever.

The Web ultimately is a medium used by real offline people, and as such, it'll probably be whatever we are.

They asked me to go in front of the Reagans. I'm not used to going in front of President Reagan, so we went out behind the Bushes.

The Word Lady: Most Often Used to Describe Someone You Wouldn't Want to Talk to for Even Five Minutes.

The words of the President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately.

The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.

The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.

They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.

They say the world used to be bigger. The world's still the same--there's just less in it.

They used to say, 'If we find a good black player, we'll sign him.' They was lying.

They used to say Palestinians fight like heroes, now they say heroes fight like Palestinians

They [unions] used straight Marxist rhetoric [in 1930s] - just the values were changed.

They used to take your horse and if they were caught they got hung for it. Now they take your car, and if they are caught it's a miracle.

Things are to be used and God is to be loved. We get into trouble when we begin to use God and love things.

Things said and done innocently should never be used as weapons.

Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.