Used To Be Quotes

America is no longer the melting pot it used to be. It has now become a tossed salad of foreigners that arrive to our shores wanting to keep their culture and forcing our acceptance.

Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?

The economic base of that rural Oregon area used to be manufacturing and logging. And that went away and they feel nobody has been speaking to them and finally Donald Trump has spoken to them.

Things have really changed here in Hollywood. Used to be people in this town couldn't wait to get an envelope full of white powder.

Parties and political systems used to be about excluding renegades who would never play well with others in government. Now it's actually systematically screening them in.

My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.

I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on.

When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in... it didn't used to be that way.

Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves.

I used to be a window cleaner. I got fired because I sometimes liked to drink the soapy water.

My wife says that my tombstone will read, 'Here lies Mr. C, who used to be Mr. B.' So I think that's probably what I'll be remembered for.

I remember when I used to be really into nostalgia.

Hip-hop used to be about battles, beatboxing and breakdancing. All they get exposed to now is the negative stuff.

I used to be shy about ordering a steak after I had eaten a steak sandwich, but I got used to it.

I get very caught up with things. I used to be dominated by domestic things. I had a lovely house in LA-and it became this growing, mad obsession

Room Full Of Mirrors, that's more of a mental disarrangement. This says something about broken glass used to be all in my brain.

What is he? He's a puppeteer and he's got a lot of inspiration all around him, and the fact that they can manipulate the expressions now with ease compared to what it used to be.

I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be.

You might be a redneck if your coffee table used to be a telephone cable spool.

At the Sharper Image store, I saw a body fat analyzer. Didn't that used to be called a mirror?

A lot of pubs in London are now faceless, expensive yuppy bars. Not like when I was growing up. The pub used to be, and should be, the pillar of community.

Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be.

I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.

It used to be enough just to make a fairly decent product and market it. Not anymore. In the '90s, you've got to have a Corporate Soul.

I grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscious of the fact that these beautiful, everlasting bikes were made just down the road.

I used to be a die-hard defender of physical film, which I still am. I love shooting on physical film and I think it's great.

It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game.

The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks.

When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.

I've been accused of deliberately hamming up my accent and dropping letters, but that's just how I speak - I used to be a chav.

The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.

And Cape Town is not what it used to be. Foreigners have left their imprint on our culture.

I used to be obsessed with Pearl Jam, but I love having pink hair and kind of looking like a Barbie.

While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries - seem settled into democratic politics and free market economics, the Andean countries are in disarray.

I used to be called 'a Mexican guy who can walk a pack of dogs.' Now the world calls me 'The Dog Whisperer'.

Oh I used to be disgusted and now I try to be amused. But since their wings have got rusted, you know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes.

I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business.

The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.

I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It's still there. It used to be around there when I was a kid.

A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals!

Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries?

I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers.

I used to be afraid of two things - being alone and not being able to write. Since Albert's death, I don't care about writing or about other people.

There are many more women who identify as unique people as well as mothers, or instead of as mothers, than there used to be and, hopefully, there are more men who identify as fathers.

In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.

Running has made my life worthwhile. I used to be more dead than alive after the personal tragedy in my life.

But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you're doing.

I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that.

A heavy warning used to be given that pictures are not rigorous; this has never had its bluff called and has permanently frightened its victims into playing for safety.

Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons. I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don't believe that anymore.