Used Quotes · Page 121

Agents are used to the parents pimping. They're not used to the kid pimping.

— Shia LaBeouf

I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.

— Waris Ahluwalia

I used to feel like I wasn't a good songwriter when I couldn't finish a song by myself.

— Syd

At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.

— Kate Winslet

I'm a businessperson. I'm used to dealing with friction.

— Anthony Scaramucci

I used to just want so badly to have afterlife insured and make sure I was going to heaven.

— Pete Holmes

My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.

— Ernest Hemingway

You get used to that work mode, get used to always doing something.

— Joe Penny

My dad used to hear me humming songs while watching television and discovered I have a nice sweet tone which should be…

— Tulsi Kumar

She said, 'Believe it or not, I used to be idealistic.' I asked her what 'idealistic' meant. 'It means you live by…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to…

— Jung Chang

What used to frustrate me going into an audition was that some inexperienced, lesser casting people would think that actors are acting…

— Bryan Cranston

I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a point where it's almost…

— Park Chan-wook

Maybe I don't take myself quite as seriously as I used to, but the work has gotten better and more interesting, and…

— William Sadler

I think it's kinda funny that all these rappers that used to be gangsters and thugs are telling us not to download…

— Daniel Tosh

As far as current inspiration, I'm listenting to a lot of flamenco, because the techniques used for flamenco can be adapted to…

— Billy Sheehan

When I heard the word ''stream'' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary…

— James Joyce

Liberals don't want any part of Canada left behind. I used to give speeches on and on and on about the fact…

— Michael Ignatieff

I certainly wouldn't say that we loved the arms race. Trillions of dollars were used to stoke it. For our economy, which…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

I think the American people want to see what we want to see, and that is for the Iraqi people to have…

— Colin Powell

There were times I used to go to parties when I was, you know, like 15-, 16-years-old, and I'd always bring my…

— Teena Marie

I would often take this bus and go to a nearby village where I had hordes of animal friends. I was hardly…

— Randeep Hooda

Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call,…

— Jon Krakauer

We were totally opposite - me coming from the West Coast and a junior college, and him [ Christopher Reeve] from the…

— Robin Williams

It's surprising how soon you can get used to having money. It's much easier than getting used to not having it.

— Patricia Wentworth

Daniel Crawford, who was BAMMA featherweight champion, used to train with me.

— Jimi Manuwa

I used all that doubt as fuel for my own music, fuel for my drive to succeed.

— Jody Watley

I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family.

— Julian Fellowes

“I am glad my days of being used and abused by toxic corporations are over!”

— Steven Magee

The idea that things used to be better is fantasy. It's putting a halo on something that no one can disprove.

— Dan Mangan

Selling a million records used to be a big deal. I guess it's not anymore.

— Dusty Hill

There are many terms that have been used to describe me: man, comedian, disappointment, hammock enthusiast.

— Joe Lycett

When I was on 'Top Gear' they thought it was funny I used to have a Vauxhall Cavalier convertible.

— Harry Enfield

Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.

— Vikram Chatwal

Wealth is used to entrench inequality, not to trickle down and solve it.

— Winnie Byanyima

He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God.

— N. Scott Momaday

The music industry doesn't exist the way it used to. You'll never have another star like the stars of the '90s.

— Mika

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

— Casey Kasem

There are times when you want to go where you used to go and you can't go there.

— Les Paul

I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd.

— Patrick Stump