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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
P. J. O'Rourke

End, Computer, Gaze

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.
Stephen Hawking

Science, Black, Biggest

I'm Irish, so I'm used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I'll call it dinner.
Liam Neeson

Call, Irish, Dinner

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 except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.
Saul Alinsky

Life, Death, Live

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
Samuel Butler

Try, Old, Nation

Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.
Bryant H. McGill

Others, Politeness, Deliver

I'm not used to crying. It's a little difficult. All my life I've had to fight. It's just another fight I'm going to have to learn how to win, that's all. I'm just going to have to keep smiling.
Serena Williams

Life, Fight, Win

My father used to call me the laughing hyena.
Phyllis Diller

Father, Call, Laughing

'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Simple, Old, Whole

Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.
Spike Milligan

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Off, Body, Felt

I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.
James Thurber

Find, Sometimes, Start

Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.
Neil Kurshan

Good, Respect, Children

After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.
Kin Hubbard

Famous, School, Long

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
Jane Austen

Women, Two, Sensible

If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.
Rick Warren

God, Nothing, Done

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
Sam Ewing

Hair, Pay, Five

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.
Denzel Washington

God, Mother, Another

It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game.
Kin Hubbard

Today, Game, Everything

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
Bryant H. McGill

Powerful, Fair, Intellect

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.
Dave Barry

Mean, Idiot, Word

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
Bono

Age, Between, Wanted

I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool, I wasn't diving, I was flying, like Superman. I used to dream of rescuing a girl I had a crush on from a playground bully.
Tom Hiddleston

Girl, Learned, Dream

Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.
Stephen Colbert

Mean, Everything, Country

I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.
Les Dawson

Living, Trouble, Sell

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Work, Nature, God

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Men, Society, Important

I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.
Simon Pegg

Lie, Happen, Bed

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.
Noel Coward

I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I'd get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I've since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her.
Matthew Perry

Good, Girl, Stress

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