#used

People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected. ↗

— Martina Navratilova

#good #people #sexuality #sports #states

Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way. ↗

— Holly Near

#child #intended #lullaby #much #music

Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point. ↗

— Holly Near

#damn #excluded #give #i #once

I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption. ↗

— Richard J. Needham

#being #corrupt #corruption #down #i

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

#carrots #dinner #i #i can #irish

The populations of Central America are very, very small indeed, so that while no one was denying and this was one of the great debates we used to have, whose fault was it that there were communists were able to do so well down there, well, that wasn't the point. ↗

— John Negroponte

#america #central #communists #debates #denying

I talk to Simon, I write to him. I never used to write a diary. But now I'm writing a diary to him. I think it's not just me, but lots of others, family and friends, can still feel him around. ↗

— Petra Nemcova

#diary #family #feel #friends #him

So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way. ↗

— John Newcombe

#fire #form #gradually #had #i

I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp. ↗

— Joanna Newsom

#harp #hearing #i #i am #people

I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#away #great #i #just #security