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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.

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

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

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.

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 world used us as an excuse to go mad.

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

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

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

They used to laugh at me when I refused to ride on all those double decker buses, all because there was no driver on the top.

They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it's bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money.

They used to be buddies, I thought, they used to be friends, and now they hate each other because one has to work for a living and the other comes from the West Side. They shouldn't hate each other.

Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.

They were so ignorant, so naive, so resigned to their lot. They refused to believe anything that didn't fit in with what they were used to believing.

They who are great talkers in company have never been any talkers by themselves, nor used to private discussions of our home regimen.

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