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276 They Used quotes by 241 unique authors
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Can you at least tell us what these Sevens look like?" He said "could we pick one out in a crowd?" "A long time ago,…
— Alexandra Adornetto
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Here we are at the bottom, almost empty. It's like confetti, these dried remnants you find in the street for a party no one invited…
— Daniel Handler
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As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody…
— Ed Asner
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You know, back in my days, they used Bayer aspirin for contraception. The gals put it between their knees, and it wasn't that costly.
— Foster Friess
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They used to have a smoking section at most airports. No more. They now have these glass-encased rooms. You're not just a smoker, you're an…
— Marc Maron
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They used to call me Cam-bones because I was so skinny.
— Unknown Author
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They used to complain at school that I looked out of the window for long periods of time - that sums up my life. I…
— Ritchie Blackmore
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I started in the era when Hollywood reveled in being the most cost-inefficient industry on the planet. They used to commission a hundred scripts for…
— Richard Greenberg
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In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years.…
— Noam Chomsky
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The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.
— Alain Aspect
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When I was young, I used to expect Parisians to wear little black berets, to bicycle about with strings of onions around their necks, and…
— Craig Brown
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The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had visions of liberal…
— Wadah Khanfar
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The long view of the Census bureau allows some changes that are taken for granted to be studied in more detail. Everyone knows, for example,…
— Bill Dedman
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I used to wear Clark Kent glasses, ever since I was in college. I used to have those Army-issue glasses, and they used to be…
— Mark Valley
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Republican governors are more lunatic than they used to be - as attested by all the ones so eager to turn down free federal money…
— Rick Perlstein
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I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio transmitters.
— Giles Foden
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Your chances of dying a violent death are 1/500th of what they used to be during medieval times.
— Peter Diamandis
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There is much boasting among the young men about their teams as their horse and carts in Cleveland. Most of the Yorkshire men take as…
— Nathaniel Smith
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Through their play Barbara imagined their lives as adults. They used the dolls to reflect the adult world around them. They would sit and carry…
— Ruth Handler
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When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately…
— John Perkins
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Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.
— Mickey Spillane
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They used a doll when I fall through the ceiling.
— Heather O'Rourke
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My parents would read those books to me as well but they used to make me starving when I was a kid because they were…
— Mike Myers
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I had friends in this band called Mars and they used to play a lot.
— Arto Lindsay
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Local politics, like everything else, are not what they used to be. But the fact is that our political system - like our physical existence…
— Eric Alterman
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