Used Quotes

• Most calves used by the dairy industry have their horns BURNED or GOUGED out of their heads.

  

  Casey Affleck
  • Industry
  • Burned
  • Horns

• You're not chasing syndication any more. It used to be a big thing. "Let's make 100 episodes and we'll get paid for life". You know? And what does the sheer amount of content that's being made do to syndication after a while? It just seems like there's more content than there is hours for everyone to watch it. But it's some of the best content that's ever been created.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Made
  • Watches
  • Amount

• It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity.

  

  Will Wright
  • People
  • Neighbor
  • Coworker

• Photography can still be used to champion activism and change. I believe this, even while standing in the cool winds of postmodernism... Postmodernism looked radical, but it wasn't. As a movement it was profoundly liberal and became a victim of itself. Precisely at this historical moment, when multicultural democracy is the order of the day, photography can be used as a powerful weapon toward instituting political and cultural change. I for one will continue to work toward this end.

  

  Carrie Mae Weems
  • Change
  • Photography
  • Champion

• I've gotten all kinds of reactions and it's been used in so many different ways.

  

  Aleksandra Mir
  • Different
  • Used
  • Reactions

• I'm so used to being behind the scenes. I didn't really want to be front and center. One of the elements of my relationships with the artists I work with is that I'm not front and center, and they are.

  

  Arthur Fogel
  • Artist
  • Scene
  • Behinds

• As someone who grew up in a house where there wasn't a lot of talking, I'm used to just looking at the world. And in general I often feel like I just don't understand what's happening. That everybody else does, but I don't quite get it.

  

  Mike Mills
  • World
  • House
  • Talking

• Well, I'm English, so it's intimidating to step anywhere. I used to be painfully shy. I wouldn't say that I'm painfully shy anymore. But if I have the option of sitting on the edge of a circle, I will.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Wells
  • Steps
  • Shy

• I'm not really comfortable singing without accompanying myself on stage - I'm not used to it.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Singing
  • Stage
  • Comfortable

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

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Drink
  • Used
  • Managers

• 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.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Thinking
  • Period
  • Lyrics

• Ah, this is fine," he cried triumphantly, holding up a small medallion on a chain. He dusted it off, and engraved on one side were the words "WHY NOT?" "That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Reason
  • Stills
  • Sides

• I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Great
  • God
  • Athlete

• We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

  

  Esther Perel
  • Today
  • Religious
  • Anxiety

• I used to do a lot of video analysis early on, but more for pleasure and looking at my own technique.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Pleasure
  • Technique
  • Analysis

• I always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Attention
  • Littles
  • Bits

• Although there are weapons for tens and hundreds of soldiers, they will not be used.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Used
  • Weapons
  • Soldiers

• The Grammys used me for ratings. And they were up 18 percent!

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Up
  • Percent
  • Rating

• In previous armies, soldiers used their time to clean their weapons and stock up on ammunition. Our weapons are words, and we may need our arsenal at any moment.

  

  Subcomandante Marcos
  • May
  • Moments
  • Needs

• I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Used
  • Turns
  • Optimist

• Black America has allowed itself to be used by Race-Baiters and White Liberal Elitists.

  

  Amy Ridenour
  • Black
  • Elitist
  • Race-Baiter

• There was a lot of times when I was busking there were a lot of people in your face, like 'More, more! Go again, again, again!'... People were so used to be able to swipe to see something different to entertain themselves that the patience had diminished.

  

  Tones and I
  • Different
  • Patience
  • Face

• I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?" I was tempted to say, "On teabags, I used to save them.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • American
  • True
  • Firsts

• I don't forget what I used to do and so I can't justifiably say to my kid, "Don't you do that," when I used to do it myself.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Kids
  • Forget
  • Used

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