Best People Used Sayings
116 People Used quotes by 108 unique authors
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People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in…
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
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I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing.
— Etta James
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I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do.
— Angelina Jolie
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People used to behave morally because they thought God was always watching - in some ways God today is the collective, and the collective is…
— Ashton Kutcher
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The law exists for a reason. There is a dominant American culture that people used to want to preserve. That's going by the wayside, too.…
— Rush Limbaugh
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Remember what people used to say about meditation? Now everyone is doing it.
— Shirley MacLaine
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I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people…
— Bill Murray
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People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Every town has the same two malls: the one white people go to and the one white people used to go to.
— Chris Rock
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People used to say everyone knows someone who's had breast cancer. In the past few weeks, I've learned something else: Everyone has someone close to…
— Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our…
— Joss Whedon
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People used to feel oddly empowered to tell me all the reasons I couldn't win. Because I was a woman. Because I was a lesbian.…
— Christine Quinn
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You can laugh! But people used to believe there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people…
— Alan Watts
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My teacher in first grade said that long ago people used to believe all kinds of things, because they didn't know any better. Like you…
— Jodi Picoult
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Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I remember when people used to think I was smart. I remember when people used to think my brain was useful. Damaged by water, sure.…
— Sherman Alexie
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... I'm the fortieth-ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what! What if someday she lets me kiss each one of her freckles…
— Gary Shteyngart
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I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable. I particularly loved the…
— David Levithan
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I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.
— Rachel Cohn
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I realised, of course, that other people used these roads; but that night, it seemed to me these dark byways of the country existed just…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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When I was a small boy, old people used to squat down to my eye level and ask me what I wanted to be when…
— Adam Young
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People used to say obvious things ironically or as a form of understatement, but in the last few decades they seem to say it with…
— Kevin Hearne
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A hundred years from now, people will look back on us and laugh. They'll say, 'You know what people used to believe? They believed in…
— Michael Crichton
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"But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've…
— Aldous Huxley
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