Ben Zimmer Quotes
Weaponization of a candidate's words against him or her is something we're seeing a lot. The term Obamacare was used against Obama in a pejorative way, but Obama again reclaimed it.
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I used to be a night owl. I no longer am a night owl.
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I used to fantasize that Paul McCartney would marry my sister.
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The term 'hero' irritates me greatly.
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Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.
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I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files.
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It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.
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The word 'potential' used to hang over me like a cloud.
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One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that she had been so used by everybody and felt that she bore a great burden of guilt.
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American influence is not what it used to be.
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I used to be so embarrassed by salsa; I wasn't into it.
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I've learned not to be as maniacal as I used to be.
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Herbs deserve to be used much more liberally.
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I used to work as a proofreader at Merrill Lynch.
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I used to have an imaginary friend named Michael.
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I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there's a lot to be said for that way of thinking.
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You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me.
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You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.
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It was a period when they used to read into our lyrics a lot, used to think there was more in them than there was.
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Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.
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When I'm not completely loaded, it's a much more vulnerable place. I can feel the music, I can feel the energy and I really have to put it out there. When I was loaded, I was just oblivious.
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I had been the dutiful son and husband for so long, I had forgotten about living for myself.
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I'm so secluded. Very alone.
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I'm a huge supporter of anything that nurtures creativity, the nearest thing that you'd get in this conversation which is vaguely political would be for the survival of the creative arts in school at the youngest age possible through university.
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Weaponization of a candidate's words against him or her is something we're seeing a lot. The term Obamacare was used against Obama in a pejorative way, but Obama again reclaimed it.
