#used

I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit. ↗

— Jung Chang

#awarded #began #china #died #first

It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to. ↗

— Edwin Starr

#company #everybody #like #record #record company

When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing. ↗

— Dominic Chianese

#bronx #doing #go #i #knees

The British press have written some nasty and spiteful things about the way I look which used to affect me quite badly when it was new to me but luckily, I've learned to ignore the comments. why do they even care about how I look? ↗

— Melanie Chisholm

#affect #badly #british #british press #care

I am into belly dancing. I used to only hang with comics. Now I have friends who are dancers, and my whole house has a harem feel. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#belly #comics #dancers #dancing #feel

I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.' ↗

— Tommy Chong

#always #black #brother #considered #culture

Working with my new coach has helped a lot. I've been a lot more focused and I'm doing all the little things in order to get faster. It's been a total lifestyle change really. ↗

— Tyler Christopher

#change #coach #doing #faster #focused

Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#confused #constituted #delicate #discouraged #distinctions

Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica for instance. It looked more like mathematics; no formalized language was used. ↗

— Alonzo Church

#exactly #find #instance #kind #language

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#days #frequently #now #take #than