Exes Quotes

• All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.

  Mae West

  Love, Sad, Boyfriend

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• Personally, I avoid deus ex machina like the plague - if you have to use one, it means you failed to set up the universe and the plot properly. It's like a whodunnit where there's no actual way for the reader to identify the perpetrator before the climactic reveal: there's no sense of closure for the reader.

  Charles Stross

  Mean, Use, Way

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• Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

  Golda Meir

  Love, Moving On, Break Up

  Interview with Oriana Fallaci, Ms. Magazine, April 1973.

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• It's not the end of the world to lose.

  Andy Murray

  Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, World, Baseball Love

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world.

  Simon Barnes

  Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, Mind Love, World

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• What is true about (ex-Iraq Survey Group head) David Kay's evidence, and this is something I have to accept, and is one of the reasons why I think we now need a new inquiry - it is true David Kay is saying we have not found large stockpiles of actual weapons.

  Tony Blair

  Thinking, Iraq, Reason Why

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• An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony.

  Ursula Parrott

  Divorce, Wife, Necks

  Ursula Parrott (1989). “Ex-wife”, Plume

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• What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.

  Lucretius

  Return Back, Heaven, Earth

  "De Rerum Natura". Book by Lucretius, II. 999,

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• Of evils one should choose the least.
  [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Evil, Should

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• My ex-wife is a water sign and I'm an earth sign. Together we made mud.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Water, Wife

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• Cuba is actually one where I am more optimistic because of the unique nature of Cuba - 90 miles off our shore with a massive ex-patriot population, now Cuban-American population that still have deep links to the island. There I am more confident that over time that the winds of commerce and telecommunication and travel start shifting the nature of that regime. But that's a small country which has almost a unique relationship to us.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Optimistic, Unique

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Someone called all the newspapers in New York and told them I'd died. I've been told by almost everyone it was an ex-wife - I've had a few so it's hard to pinpoint which one - but who knows for sure?

  Richard Pryor

  New York, Wife, Newspapers

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• I still love my former wife, I won't call her my ex-wife.

  Dave Pelzer

  Wife, Former, Stills

  "'Help Yourself' author Dave Pelzer". Live chat, www.cnn.com. September 6, 2001.

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• I did as much as I could in Vancouver. You can only play so many ex-'Falcon Crest' sons in so many movies of the week before you burn out.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Son, Play, Vancouver

  "Ryan Reynolds Interview - Adventureland". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 03, 2009.

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• The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.

  Mike Royko

  Cities, Criminals, Rehabilitation

  Mike Royko (2014). “Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997”, p.313, Agate Digital

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• It's different when you're trying to turn something around, especially something that you built, at a time when so many constituents - the media, Wall Street, competitors, ex-employees - are all saying that Starbucks's best days are behind it, and that Schultz is never going to be able to bring it back.

  Howard Schultz

  Wall, Media, Trying

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• I play, in real life, Kim, who is actually Marshall Mathers ex-wife as of now. She lies and says she is pregnant because she really wants to keep him and he figures her out.

  Taryn Manning

  Lying, Real, Pregnancy

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• I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny.

  Dane Cook

  Girlfriend, Thinking, Get Better

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• Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film Funny Girl at least five times, eat at least 45 chocolate bars, and hang out with all those friends you blew off to hang out with your ex. I truly believe that, through a combination of Nutella, old pals and Barbra Streisand, we can achieve happiness and, very probably, world peace.

  Beth Ditto

  Girl, Believe, Funny Motivational

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2007.

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• I mean everybody's got ex-boyfriends and girlfriends. Everybody's got baggage.

  Nina Dobrev

  Girlfriend, Ex Boyfriend, Mean

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• Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Political, Lovely, President

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• I can still love an ex as a person, regardless if the breakup was bad. I would never wish anything negative on them. It takes more energy to hate them than to wish them well.

  Ashley Greene

  Moving On, Break Up, Breakup

  "Ashley Greene Covers Seventeen: 'Twilight' Star Opens Up About Exes (PHOTOS)", www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2012.

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• I put on fifteen pounds of muscle, so that was a lot of eating chicken and a high protein, low-carb diet. Also a lot of heavy lifting and a very different kind of training with an ex-navy SEAL guy who wanted to kill me every time I got with him. In a good way.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Guy, Training, Navy

  "Liam Hemsworth & Josh Hutcherson Talk Gale & Peeta in ‘The Hunger Games’". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. March 21, 2012.

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• Everyone has the bully or the mean girl or the ex-boyfriend who tried to bring them down.

  Demi Lovato

  Mean Girls, Bullying, Ex Boyfriend

  "Demi Lovato's Second Chance". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. November 29, 2011.

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• Whenever you have an ex, and they're like, 'I hope we can still be friends!' and you weren't friends before you started dating, then what do you go back to, really?

  Ed Sheeran

  Dating, Stills

  "Exclusive: Ed Sheeran Tells Us the Song He'd Write for Taylor Swift, Dating Advice, and His Fave Redhead". Interview with Anna Moeslein, www.glamour.com. May 3, 2013.

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