People Used Quotes
116 quotes by 109 authors
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In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
— Samuel Butler
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I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother…
— Maya Angelou
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People say there's delays on flights. Delays, really? New York to California in five hours, that used to take 30 years, a bunch of people…
— Louis C. K.
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People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy soap, at least you get the…
— David Brooks
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I'm the fortieth ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what!... Isn't this how people used to fall in love?
— Gary Shteyngart
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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people s hands, people used to be shocked because they d never seen…
— Princess Diana
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Running is so natural to me. When I was running track, people used to ask me, "When are you gonna start running hard?" The wind…
— Eric Dickerson
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In the past people used to tell me to shut up a bit. But what I believe is to put out your opinion and let…
— Mark Cuban
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to…
— Olivia Wilde
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Race doesn't mean what it used to in America anymore. It just doesn't. Obama's black, but he's not black the way people used to define…
— Louis C. K.
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People used to ask me, 'What do you reckon you'll be doing when you're 40?', and I told 'em 'rocking out and kicking ass!' Now…
— Steven Tyler
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American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do…
— Bob Schieffer
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People used to throw rocks at me for my clothes, now they wanna know where I buy them.
— Cyndi Lauper
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The message has become clearer to the nation about AIDS. People used to think they could catch it all kinds of ways, but we now…
— Loretta Devine
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I call myself a FFP: former fat person, and when you're an FFP, you will always see in yourself what people used to bully you…
— Kelly Osbourne
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I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner.…
— Diane Cilento
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I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was…
— Patrick Ewing
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People used to ask me for advice, and I'd say, 'Please, don't ask me!' Yes, I did economics at Oxford, but that's not the same…
— Sophie Kinsella
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When I was young, people used to say to me: Wait until you're fifty, you'll see. I am fifty. I haven't seen anything.
— Erik Satie
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I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no…
— Karel Capek
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