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When I was 25, people used to say to me that having kids would change you, and I'd roll my eyes.
— Trent Reznor
I was one of those children they used to call 'readers.'
— Cathleen Schine
When I was a kid, I used to think, 'Man, if I could ever afford all the ice cream I want to eat, that's as rich as I ever want to be.'
— Jimmy Dean
I never imagined playing in El Clasico. I used to watch the games and look at photos, and I used to say how incredible to play in it was.
— Luis Suarez
I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh.
— Billy Childish
When I was young I used to listen to everything.
— Herbie Hancock
I used comedy as a way to combat my dyslexia. I was barely getting by scholastically, so I used a lot of humor.
— Joel McHale
The amount of painkillers I was given. Every time I had a pain in my leg I got used to numbing it out.
— Sophie Anderton
The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.
— David Foster Wallace
I love school, but when I was going to school, I sort of used it as an opportunity to figure out what I love to do.
— Christa B. Allen
Most of the meetings I get are in London, and in terms of travelling, I was getting so used to the Virgin train, I knew most of the staff by name.
— Greg McHugh
Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings.
— Nina Simone
With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity.
— Joe Murray
But I love New York. I used to set my alarm clock when I was there, and get up at 4am and get a coffee, just because I could.
— Gail Porter
I used to want to be a vampire when I was young. It'd be great, you know? Run around at night, never die, kill people. It sounds like a great life!
— Jackson Rathbone
At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who handed in essays on British Airways notepaper.
— Sebastian Coe
I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.
— Penelope Keith
What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.
— Anne McCaffrey
Cell phones, alas, have pretty much ruined train travel, which I used to love. I could read or even sketch notes for what I was working on.
— Thomas Mallon
In White Plains I wasn't theatrical at all. I was a model and I used to take the train into New York three days a week to do travelogue work.
— John Davidson
I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.
— LeBron James
I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.
— Daniel Woodrell
When people used to ask me why I got involved with Hollywood films, I would say jokingly that it was for the health insurance.
— Spalding Gray
I was so flat I used to put Xs on my chest and write: "You are here". I wore angora sweaters just so the guys would have something to pet.
— Joan Rivers
I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.
— Elton John
When I was young, I used to need other people's albums and I got very involved with their music and it meant a lot to me.
— Liz Phair
I used to have terrible tantrums. I was temperamental when I was younger. Actually, what I needed was a swift kick in the pants. What a brat!
— Dorothy Hamill
I'm kind of used to being around guys on set, and I grew up with a brother who treated me like I was a boy.
— Katee Sackhoff
I keep having these bros come up to me and say, "I used to watch you when I was a fetus," and I just want to kill them.
— Nick Offerman
I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
— Patricia Velasquez
When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats.
— Jill Lepore
Julie's voice could have been used to tune a piano. She was pitch perfect - and I never was. I was enjoyably close.
— Dick Van Dyke
I'm a bit of a potty mouth. My dad used to wash out my mouth with soap, but that was just to get rid of any traces of his DNA.
— Doug Stanhope
I love bikes. I used to own one, but I fell off it when I was younger and that was the end of my bike riding days until now.
— Idris Elba
I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.
— Freddie Mercury
My father was the only man I ever knew who really loved me unselfishly, who never used me for personal gain.
— Jayne Mansfield
That's why I was able to manifest these. I used the pain to make myself stronger than my destiny.
— Stephanie Rowe
I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let go of them, I relaxed a lot.
— Amy Adams
When I was a teenager, my dad used to call me 'Hollywood' because I wore sunglasses all the time, even at night. Cue song.
— Michael Weatherly
Chiquita was dancing with a brother who was so old I'd bet he used to baby-sit God.
— Eric Jerome Dickey
The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.
— Oscar Wilde
I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the time.
— Tom Udall
So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You're a hero.
— Joe Abercrombie
I used to pessimistically think I was going to die alone, but now I optimistically know I'm going to die hoping to meet someone.
— Dana Gould
When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books.
— Alan King
Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.
— Lee Westwood
I know how to waltz because I used to teach ballroom dancing when I was in high school.
— Christopher Gorham
When I was researching the Victorian anti-vaccination movement, those activists often used a vampire as a metaphor for the vaccinator.
— Eula Biss
But I was wrong to weep and beg and try to force you by your love. Love is not a thing to be so used.
— C.S. Lewis
If she felt my gaze upon her, I assume she was accustomed to being stared at, just as I was used to wanting what I could not have.
— Alice Hoffman
Joining Modest Mouse was just consistent with what I used to do as a teenager: I followed where I thought I would make some interesting music.
— Johnny Marr
When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.
— Vanessa Hudgens
My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
— Gabby Douglas
I'm used to being productive, ever since I was young.
— Robert Pozen
I always thought writer's block was something that prats used as an easy excuse for not doing any work.
— Geraldine McCaughrean
I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts.
— Betsey Johnson
I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers.
— Terry Pratchett
It smelled pretty rank, but I was getting used to the smell of death, as much as anyone could get used to it.
— Amanda Hocking
I knew that my husband was a song that I had forgotten the words to and I was a fuzzy photograph of someone he used to love.
— Catherine Lacey
I'm ashamed, thinking back Not about the lies I'm used to lying now
No, I'm ashamed of how pathetic it all was. — Hornby Nick
No, I'm ashamed of how pathetic it all was. — Hornby Nick
I used to work on a survey crew, because my dad was an engineer, but he was also a surveyor.
— Michael Keaton
I used to think the brain was the most important organ in the body, until I realized who was telling me that.
- Emo Phillips — Stella Atrium
- Emo Phillips — Stella Atrium
I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.
— Randy Jackson
The thing that would make me believe that hiking the Pacific Crest Trail was my way back to the person I used to be.
— Cheryl Strayed
When I was 16, I used to hang out at the Nambucca pub in North London and see The Libertines play live.
— Jamie Campbell Bower
I used to have a list of people I was going to kill one day. It was against my rules now, but sometimes I really missed that list.
— Dan Wells
I was 15 years old when I was in this band; we were called Stag. We used to wear spandex pants and no underwear - we looked like marbles smugglers.
— Craig Ferguson
My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
— Dan Blocker
I used to think religion tasted horrible,
but now I know I was just eating the fake stuff. — Bob Goff
but now I know I was just eating the fake stuff. — Bob Goff
He was staring at me like I was one of the Seven Wonders of the World. A girl could get used to these kinds of looks.
— Laura Thalassa
I was one of six kids; my grandmother lived with us. We had an aunt who used to have nerves, and all her kids would turn up and live with us.
— Richard Flanagan
I was used to being perceived as having a good attitude. Self-control, self-effacement, self-denial. People like this, especially in girls.
— Stephanie Grant
I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.
— Harold Pinter
I always used the free room that the G.D.R. allowed me ... There was no shadow over my childhood.
— Angela Merkel
I used to love to make things - you couldn't drag me away for dinner because I was always writing a story or something.
— Fiona Apple
I used to believe in the system that I was born into: aspire, acquire, consume, get famous and glamorous, get high and mighty, get paid and laid.
— Russell Brand
I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
Though not my field, I was familiar with the notion of alternative realities, but was not used to occupying the one I liked the best.
— David Nicholls
Not what you would call a musical family, but my father used to play saxophone, and I discovered many genres of music when I was a child.
— Rokia Traore
There are people who view their feminism in different ways. I used to beat myself up if I didn't react to things like I was supposed to.
— Kathleen Hanna
When I was little, we used to have Atari.
— Rachel Dratch
I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one ... Then I thought he was a genus.
— Mark Twain
When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
— Yayoi Kusama
One of the things I had a hard time getting used to when I came to California in '78 was Santa Claus in shorts.
— Dennis Franz
I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera.
— Helmut Newton
I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.
— Jeanette Winterson
Elvis had animal magnetism, he was even sexy to the guys, I can't imagine what the chicks used to think.
— Ian Hunter
I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time.
— Alexander McQueen