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People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity; it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation.

Nutritional complements, wisely used, can prevent many age-related illnesses and dramatically reverse your biological age.

I used to be a hairdresser.

All these new methods of how to build the church has left me confused.

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'

I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that.

You don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point in time.

If the audience lets that stuff wash over them, you know - almost like music, rather than dialogue - and doesn't fight it, then they'll have a much easier time rather than being sort of frustrated and confused otherwise. But if you get in the right state of mind it really does work quite well.

I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

Endlessly amused by people's minds.

When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead

My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you.

Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped

I always used to say to myself, I'm going to die of lung cancer. That's the choice I'm making.

A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge or a mission.

The things you used to own, now they own you.

I believe I've spent my life expecting people to behave in a certain way. I believe that when they didn't behave according to my expectations, I became angry, sad, confused and occasionally fearful. I believe these expectations are the reason I've been angry, sad, confused and occasionally fearful more than I care to admit. As a result, I now believe my expectations are the real problem. I believe that everyone has this very same problem, and they ought to start acting accordingly.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

Unreasonable," "unrealistic," and "impractical" are all words used to marginalize a person or idea that fails to conform with conventionally expected standards.

I used to hate being recognised.

People have confused playing devil's advocate with being intelligent.

Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now theyre getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, youve got a hit.

Let us candidly confess our indebtedness to the needle. How many hours of sorrow has it softened, how many bitter irritations calmed, how many confused thoughts reduced to order, how many life-plans sketched in purple!