Used To Be Quotes

America is stronger than any state probably since the Roman Empire. But we can't do what used to be done with that kind of strength.

I've been trained in dancing and I used to be quite good, though I am a bit rusty right now. But I could probably brush up in a couple of months.

It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.

Fashion shows used to be more crazy. Now they've become a bit too serious.

It used to be thought that only a certain kind of virus could get into our genome and it's called a retrovirus and that's a virus that might be HIV for example.

You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a strange thing.

Come to think of [a handsome young carpenter], Harrison Ford used to be a carpenter.

I used to be a street performer, and performances on Venice Beach, it's like playing the Apollo: They let you know if they don't like you!

I used to be an architect, so I have a series I am working on with USA Network that I created and am co-writing.

It used to be that nobody would really argue with a woman, because what she thought (unless it was by way of providing helpful comments about one's own work) just didn't matter.

It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again.

There used to be a cruel joke that said Brazil is the country of the future, and always will be; Obama is the Brazil of today's politicians. He has obviously achieved nothing.

It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there.

I have a background in theater, so I have experience with actors. I like actors - I used to be one.

I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.

In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.

Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician.

My theory is that church used to be that place. Instead of being a place where you went to look good, it was a place where you could risk going every week to look your worst.

My album was recorded in Nashville. It used to be all about "We're from Texas, forget Nashville," well you'll never hear me say that. Nashville isn't bad as long as you're true to yourself.

Radio is less important than it used to be. Kids are not just hip-hop kids, just punk kids, just pop kids, just whatever kids. Everyone is mixing and matching on their playlists.

There used to be corporations that produced products. Now there are just banks that produce deals, hedge-fund-driven banks and derivatives and those things.

I used to be a huge fan. "The Simpsons" taught me a lot about filmmaking. It imitates film, but it's drawn, so everything is super clear

I used to be younger than my producers but now I'm older than my producers and I think that works for me, that works better cause you get a good kick up the ... everyday.

The idea that things used to be better is fantasy. It's putting a halo on something that no one can disprove.

In the Netherlands now, I imagine it's legal to marry your own children. Get them pregnant, and you can abort your unborn grandbabies in a free clinic that used to be a church.

Basketball used to be my top priority.

What people actually refer to as research is really just Googling. I already have a complicated relationship with research. It used to be going to the library and looking up archival photos, etc.

I don’t know what’s happened to you. You used to be such a nice girl. Now you’ve gone all stabby and whatnot.

I don't think coolness used to be such a commodity among adults. And now it is.

I design for the woman I wanted to be, the woman I used to be and to some degree, the woman I'm still a little piece of.

Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.

I think that we are not in the position that we used to be. I think we were a very powerful, very wealthy country. And we're a poor country now. We're a debtor nation.

It used to be only yoga, but now I do Pilates as well; I feel like I need the balance.

I don't want to sound like some old person pining for how things used to be, because I'm not. But walking down the street, for example, used to be a public activity; you'd see the other people.

I've hated cockroaches my entire life.Tweeting jokes about it helps me cope, in a way. I'm not as jumpy killing cave crickets as I used to be. I still jump plenty though.

I'm still on the edge. It's just that I don't want to hurt the team by going over that edge. I've learned not to be as maniacal as I used to be.

'One Week' changed my life because I used to be the Million Dollars Guy, and now I'm the Chickity China Guy.

Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere.

School used to be an escape. Now it's just another place with too much pressure, too much confrontation, & so not enough joy.

In New York there used to be some very good clubs with amazing sound systems. Techno was part of the process.

But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse.

I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between songs.

I just tell you what a pleasure it is to get back to the kind of filmmaking I used to be allowed to do.

People are always nice, so I can't complain. My name used to be SNL! More and more, people call me by my name.

I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12.

It used to be you had real friends on the other side of the aisle. Its not like that anymore. Society has changed. The public is to blame as well. I think the people have gotten dumber.

I used to be very unathletic. I was always so gangly and self-conscious about my height. I had convinced myself I was uncoordinated. And as a result, I didn't want to try stuff.

But Aunt Margaret doesn't like boys," objected Elnora. "Well, she likes me, and I used to be a boy.

I used to be Irish Catholic. Now I'm an American - you know, you grow.

If you think back , the Academy was doing a better job. Think about how many more African Americans were nominated.We need to get better at this. We used to be better at it.