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We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.
Loretta Lynn

Mean, Around, Halloween

We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
A. Philip Randolph

Nothing, Big, Eye

I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.
Norah Jones

Done, Thought, College

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
Toni Morrison

War, Black, Country

I once used henna to dye my hair brown for an audition, thinking I was being clever as it's all natural.
Sienna Miller

Thinking, Hair, Once

My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core.
Vin Diesel

Mom, Tough, Guy

Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
Richard E. Byrd

Men, Strength, Deep

My worst habit used to be smoking but I quit.
Katherine Heigl

Smoking, Worst, Quit

I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me.
Elia Kazan

Time, Nice, Guy

I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.
Billy Connolly

Afraid, Far, Outweigh

I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling.
Leslie Fiedler

Wrestling, Indian, Arm

I used to look back at pictures and cringe but actually I'm quite proud that I've had fun with fashion and don't always look perfect. The only regret I have is when I look at something I wore when I was very young and it obviously looks like it belonged to someone else.
Emma Watson

Fun, Someone, Regret

I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
Bjork

Rather, Quite, Guess

When I was young, I used to hear people say, 'He's a golden boy. Look at that guy. Can you imagine what he's going to be like when he grows up?' Well, I unfortunately bought into that. And I hadn't even found myself. Quite honestly, I was running from myself. But I knew how to work Top 40 radio.
Glenn Beck

Work, Young, Found

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.
Tony Blair

Politics, Time, Another

A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.
Damian Lewis

Through, Cricket, Before

Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.
Danica McKellar

Time, Good, Home

When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
Danica McKellar

Great, Dad, Game

I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
Danica McKellar

Age, Hard, Learned

I used to love to go to the movies - I'd see two in a row. A few times I even snuck into the second movie after it started... now that I think about it, that's kind of like shoplifting! Needless to say, I still love going to the movies, but I don't sneak in anymore.
Danica McKellar

Love, Movies, Two

I was really bored and unhappy in school, and I used to act out and do horrible things.
Christina Ricci

School, Bored, Unhappy

I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.
Vivienne Westwood

Fight, Human, Rights

I disagree with everything I used to say.
Vivienne Westwood

Everything, Disagree

When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.
Vivienne Westwood

Girl, Learn, Nobody

Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
LaToya Jackson

Time, Angry, Book

I don't think coolness used to be such a commodity among adults. And now it is.
Diablo Cody

Among, Coolness, Commodity

People have always wanted to be recognized, and that's human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments, and now they simply want to be visible.
Diablo Cody

Nature, Human, Wanted

Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living; now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!
Diablo Cody

Best, Busy, Thought

I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
Alan Alda

Change, Until, Left

Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges.
David Suzuki

Brain, Old, High

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