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However, those who have used those words use half the sentence to fit their purpose, which, of course, I believe is to discredit me and the new Nation of Islam that has come up around me.

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be used in Iraq.

Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.

I didn't want to stay until I had used up all the enjoyment because that's too long to stay anywhere.

I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.

My dad was an Arsenal supporter and he used to take me there, but I've always been Chelsea.

All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important.

I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.

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.

The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

I used to be more involved with every aspect of everything onstage. I'm way more relaxed now. It feels like anything can happen.

When you're used to being healthy and strong and vibrant and everything and then - bang - overnight you're desperately ill, it's frightening.

I used to hang out at karaoke bars all the time. It was the most fun you could have when you had no money.

I used to make up names when I used to catalog my stuff.

In TV we've used something that I love... it's called process. I love process.

I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing.

I'm used to working alone. Frankly with some of the actors I've worked with, I've felt like I was working alone.

I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.

I've only used my own voice about four times on film.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

My mother always used to say, 'There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.'

They used to say I was a younger Winona Ryder and that always made me laugh because I'm three years older than she is.

I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever 'cause he believed in God.

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.

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

Well, I think, I certainly used backward music in Sea of Monsters. I can't remember in the Sea of Time. I would tend to do that all the time, you know? I tended to do all sorts of weird things. Just to get effects.

We can adhere to the Henry Hyde amendment by saying that no federal funds will be used for abortions. And that's the bottom line for me.