Used Quotes
10481 Used quotes by 6288 unique authors
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Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care…
— Saul Alinsky
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The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
— Fidel Castro
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I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect.
— Roberto Cavalli
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'Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.
— Nick Cave
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The concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous outcome of religion as being an…
— Nick Cave
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I lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the 'Johnny Cash Show' on television in Wangaratta when I was about 9 or…
— Nick Cave
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I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed…
— Nick Cave
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There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan. Dad used to take me to Bears games and Cubs games. My brother…
— Kyle Chandler
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Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over…
— William Ellery Channing
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This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.
— Gracie Allen
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The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
— Charlie Chaplin
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My version of 'Georgia' became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a…
— Ray Charles
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It used to be you needed to have a very large sophisticated state before you could even have a nuclear weapon... Now the technology is…
— Dick Cheney
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Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf;…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I am into belly dancing. I used to only hang with comics. Now I have friends who are dancers, and my whole house has a…
— Margaret Cho
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is…
— Noam Chomsky
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Governments don't control people like they used to.
— Noam Chomsky
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I've always felt that technology can be used to our benefit and should be used to our benefit.
— Deepak Chopra
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Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of…
— Yvon Chouinard
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Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and innovation. Societies like…
— Amy Chua
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In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.
— Winston Churchill
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Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
— John Ciardi
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'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have…
— Sandra Cisneros
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To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession. I am sorry that so often the biggest…
— Shane Claiborne
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