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Interestingly, songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter.

In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas.

In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.

In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs.

In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live.

In the theory of evolution there is no talk of God and no Bibles are used. They're not looking for higher powers, extraterrestrials, or anything else that could be found in the science fiction section, because they are not dealing with fiction.

In those days, most people read newspapers, whereas today, most people do not. What caused this change? One big factor, of course, is that people are a lot stupider than they used to be, although we here in the newspaper industry would never say so in print.

In those days we were punished very frequently and I felt that it was often unjust, and so I would resist the desire to agree with many, many things. So I used to get beaten quite frequently and I more or less accepted it as part of life.

I once used the word OBSOLETE in a headline, only to discover that 43 per cent of housewives had no idea what it meant. In another headline, I used the word INEFFABLE, only to discover that I didn't know what it meant myself.

I only used my whole life one perfume, and it's Cartier's Les Must.

I parked in front of the Field Museum under a NO PARKING sign. There were a couple of actual spots I could have used, but the drive was even closer. Besides, I found it aesthetically satisfying to defy municipal code.

I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.

I played with Barbies but I used to decapitate them. I used to take their heads off then dye their hair and do weird things.

I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.

I realized I was trying to be friends with somebody who I used to be with but who I didn't get along with. I'm really big on that. I need to be friends with everyone that I've ever had a relationship with.

I really haven't paid attention to Madonna since about like 7th or 8th grade when she used to be popular

I recently have had a full hip replacement and a liver transplant, and I'm getting used to the medication.

I really like using my Samsung (005930:KS) tablet. I previously used the Motorola Xoom for a while and liked that.

I remember Marvin Gaye used to sing to me, He had me feelin' like black was the thing to be.

I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.

I remember in school - in elementary school - I used to recite poems. We'd have to recite poems. And I would always just, like, roll on the floor, like, just make it such a huge, melodramatic portrayal of whatever it was.

I remember when I used to be really into nostalgia.

Iris, if you were a melody...piano melody. I used only the good notes.

I started at 14, and only played bass. I traded in my train set for a bass, and used my dad's amp.

I shall never eat duck again. I cannot believe I used to like duck. The duck betrayed me.

Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.

I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

I started racing go-karts. And I love karts. It's the most breath taking sport in the world. More than F1, indeed, I used to like it most.

I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.

I suppose that the great questions of "Fate, Freewill, Foreknowledge Absolute," which used to be discussed at Concord, are still unsettled.

I still haven't quite got used to eating live fish.

I still like doing stand-up now, but it's not the same. It used to be that I was out there with five other comedians. Now I usually just do it alone.

I sued American Apparel because they calculatingly took my name, my likeness and image and used them publicly to promote their business.

It gets harder all the time, Bev Shaw once said. Harder, yet easier. One gets used to things getting harder; one ceases to be surprised that what used to be hard as hard can be grows harder yet.

It appears that legal positions that you have supported have been used by the administration, the military, and the CIA to justify torture and Geneva Convention violations by military and civilian personnel.

I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.

I tell my piano the things I used to tell you

It goes without saying that all of the people, living, dead, and otherwise, in this story are fictional or used in a fictional context. Only the gods are real.

I think we are used to being critical and evaluating ideas.

I think I get laid less now than I used to, because I’m way more paranoid now.

I think life is staggering and we're just too used to it.

I think movies are getting dumber, actually. Where it used to be 50/50, now it`s 3% good, 97% stupid.

I think that those wrestlers, those women and men that go in the ring are not protected. I don't think anybody is ever looking out for them and I think that they are used badly.

I think that American audiences are more used to following one character.

I think the media is dangerously close to creating their own product. They used to cover the product, which was whatever's happening.

I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.

I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t know. I didn’t know that you were ashamed of me.

It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.