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You've got to have a villain and they'll always make me a villain. I'm used to it - it makes me work harder and it makes me fight harder.
I used to change things in my early paintings to get the nuance or feeling I wanted, but now I plan everything in my head before I do it.
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
To be used of God. Is there anything more encouraging, more fulfilling? Perhaps not, but there is something more basic: to meet with God.
It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click and jump and page.
I've also never had favorite pictures. Or subjects. I have this discipline of treating everything equally-I used to say "democratically."
I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
I've been looking at used car bargains. I'll frankly confess I'm scared to death of Fords. I've seen and heard of so many turning turtle.
Even though we know sexual assault is still dramatically underreported, I think women are much more empowered today than they used to be.
Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
I don't like ostentatious galas and stuff like that, but if you get to the Oscars, you'd better get used to it and you'd better enjoy it.
My parents used to say to me to save. Always save. They also told me to invest in properties and to never go over your monthly allowance.
I used to come to practice and go through the motions. I don't do that anymore. I look forward to practices. I even enjoy the windsprints.
I have had a very singular kind of life since I started working so young, so I am very used to traveling, working, taking time for myself.
Gordie Howe and Bobby Hull and Jean Béliveau probably looked at us in the '80s and said, "These guys are soft. We used to take the train."
In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.
You know how old I am? I'm so old, I remember when Letterman used to be funny and it was presidents who were serious. That's how old I am.
... I used words without precautions. I wanted to disappear into them, I fled into the bovaryism of the writer trying to create an effect.
Nothing's ever come easy to me and nothing ever will and that's okay. I'm used to that. I go with the challenges. I roll with the punches.
A trail through the mountains, if used, becomes a path in a short time, but, if unused, becomes blocked by grass in an equally short time.
I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I'm not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares.
I've got used to touring. If you make calculations of the nights spent in hotels in my life, multiplied by the tattoos I have for hundred.
Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
I suppose that the great questions of "Fate, Freewill, Foreknowledge Absolute," which used to be discussed at Concord, are still unsettled.
I love watching the romantic comedies of the late '50s and early '60s. I used to have a rule that if Tony Randall's in it, it can't be bad.
I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.
During the peak of my career, I used to pick the ball as soon it was released from the bowler's hands. And I hit the ball through the line.
I've been playing youth basketball ever since I was in sixth grade; I've been traveling ever since I was in sixth grade, so I'm used to it.
I used to be very shy. I hated going to a new classroom and having to make new friends, meet new teachers, and adjust to a new environment.
Nationalism is a tool increasingly used by leaders to bolster their authority, especially amid difficult economic and political conditions.
My husband calls me a ginger every single day of my life, so that Im completely used to it, and Ive come to see it as a term of endearment.
Just as we have what used to be supercomputers in our pockets, our homes now require the telecommunications infrastructure of a small city.
I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this.
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains.
I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me.
It used to be that we imagined that our mobile phones would be for us to talk to each other. Now, our mobile phones are there to talk to us.
Maybe his heart is searching for and not finding the place it used to live. I understand that because mine is searching and not finding too.
I used to have Bible studies at my house. I was in the choir. I was mischievous but also a real mama's boy. It was a pretty happy childhood.
I was used to being the only woman in everything... I didn't even think about it. Men were my role models - there's nothing wrong with that.
Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances.
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.
We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.
Wealth is an engine that can be used for power, if you are an engineer; but to be tied to the fly wheel of an engine is rather a misfortune.
I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw a portrait of the person you love.
The Italians, who used to be a great motor-manufacturing power, have been absolutely destroyed by the euro - as was intended by the Germans.
I loved the old stories in National Lampoon, like the original story the movie Vacation was based on. I used to laugh at them until I cried.
My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.
I myself, at one time, wanted to be like the explorers of the Himalayas that I used to read about; people intoxicated on the myth of history.
It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.