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• I trained with an ex-Navy Seal. We shot a lot of guns. Real bullets... I underwent commando training.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Real, Gun, Training

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• Russia is actively using gas diplomacy for its expansion over the ex-Soviet space in a bid to become a regional superpower.

  Lilia Shevtsova

  Russia, Space, Expansion

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• One of the benefits of being divorced is that you no longer need to listen to your ex's assessment of the appropriateness of your actions.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Assessment, Needs

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• You should not propose marriage until you have resolved your feelings about your ex.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Feelings, Should

  "Cheapskate, turkey for the holidays". "Ask Amy" with Amy Dickinson, articles.chicagotribune.com. December 29, 2012.

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• Other than his ex-wife and despite appearances with a series of cultivated blondes, Edward de Bono has never publicly aligned himself with a woman. 'I’m looking for a fat, cross-eyed hunchback,' he explains, stifling a giggle. 'A prosthetic hump would do.' His delight evaporates when asked about his three grandchildren. 'Am I a doting grandfather?' He pauses. 'I’m a … something grandfather, yes.' The fact that De Bono remains unperturbed by this lack betrays an emotionally austere childhood, and his passions for play, toys, and bad jokes tell of the same deprivation. 

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Passion, Grandchildren, Play

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• I can't deny I'm a better ex-president than I was a president.

  Jimmy Carter

  President, Deny, I Can

  "Carter condemns abortion culture", www.washingtontimes.com. November 3, 2005.

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• In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Careers, Directors, Labels

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• It’s okay to show up at a guy’s house with a dozen roses and declare your undying affection. It’s okay to have too much to drink and call your ex twenty times and then to be mortally embarrassed when you realize your number must have shown up on his caller I.D. It’s okay, because making a fool of yourself for love is ultimately about you, how much you have to give and the distance you will travel to keep your heart wide open when everything around you makes you feel like slamming it shut and soldering it closed.

  Veronica Chambers

  Distance, Heart, Love Is

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• There's a guy out there who's going to be really happy that you didn't get back together with your crappy ex-boyfriend.

  Greg Behrendt

  Ex Boyfriend, Guy, Together

  Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• John Paulk, the poster boy for 'ex-gays' was found in a gay bar in Washington. He said he was there to use the bathroom. But nobody thought to ask him for what.

  Kate Clinton

  Gay, Boys, Bars

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• Everyone has a bookplate these days, and the collectors are after it. The fool and his bookplate are soon parted. To distribute one's ex libris is inanely to destroy the only significance it has, that of indicating the past or present ownership of the volume in which it is placed.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Past, Fool, Ownership

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• Ex-cons always say, "You never know what makes the wheels go round until you've done time in the joint." This is even more true of psychiatric hospitals. It is a perfect mass hypostatization of society, the organization of the Social Lie.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Lying, Organization, Perfect

  "An Autobiographical Novel". Book by Kenneth Rexroth. Chapter: "Pysch Ward", www.bopsecrets.org. 1991.

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• I've always felt, and I don't like to say this because I sound like an ex-patriot, I always feel quite a bit more comfortable sometimes in Canada. For a variety of reasons. I just think it's a politer place. Kind of. You don't have quite the population to deal with but you don't immediately get into skirmishes with everybody. If you had any passport, any terrorist would let the Canadians off the plane.

  Tim Allen

  Thinking, Sound, Population

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• Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo, nor reducible ad nihilum, but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and "fashionable") the composition is dissolved, the complexion is changed, the figure is modified, the being is altered, the fortune is varied, only the elements remaining what they are in substance, that same principle persevering which was always the one material principle, which is the true substance of things, eternal, ingenerable and incorruptible.

  Giordano Bruno

  Principles, Substance, Elements

  "The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• [I'll be the first one of the Smith to die.] I'll be shot - probably by one of the ex-Smiths.

  Steven Morrissey

  Firsts, Shots, Dies

  "GQ" Magazine, (p. 278), October 2005.

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• Some of my best sources are ex-policemen, just to get a feeling of what it's like to be one. And it's quite different from being a civilian - except, of course, that I believe that policemen are just special sorts of civilians. Things like how hard it is to hold someone that doesn't want to be held. This is the kind of thing that is worth knowing.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Knowing, Feelings

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I don't think any President ever enjoyed himself more than I did. Moreover, I don't think any ex-President ever enjoyed himself more.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Thinking, President, Enjoyed

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.134, Taylor Trade Publications

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• To be sure, [NASCAR] stars were initially ex-bootleggers for the most part drawn from that talent pool in the Carolinas hills: "good ol' boys" as they referred to themselves. That's exactly how they would be described in the press that slowly became enamored with their raucous life style. That has all changed, with the drivers of today polished and clean-cut athletes who are expected to behave like commercial puppets in public.

  Brock Yates

  Stars, Athlete, Cutting

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• Besides Bob Satterfield, the only ones who ever hurt me were my ex-wives.

  Jake LaMotta

  Hurt, Wife, Bob

  Los Angeles Times Interview, May 04, 1997.

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• Experts have their expert fun ex cathedra telling one just how nothing can be done.

  Piet Pieterszoon Hein

  Fun, Experts, Done

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• More than one branch of the avant-garde, claiming to break with the bourgeois vision and mode of production, remains tied to it in spite of its denials and ex-communications. We are far from having overcome bourgeois thought or practices, despite the socialist "intermission" between the Russian revolution and the collapse of the Berlin wall. The avant-garde has lost its radical nature. On the other hand, "bourgeois theatre" is sometimes subtle enough to flirt with the avant-garde or to make "intelligent boulevard theatre.

  Patrice Pavis

  Wall, Communication, Flirting

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• For example, you can go on all the pro-life chat rooms and say you're an outraged right-wing voter and that you know that George Bush drove an ex-girlfriend to an abortion clinic and paid for her to get an abortion.Then you go to an anti-immigration website chat room and ask, "What's all this about George Bush proposing amnesty for illegal aliens?"

  Moby

  Girlfriend, Wings, Pro Life

  "Punk the prez? Moby's anti-Bush tricks" by George Rush and Joanna Rush Molloy, New York Daily News, February 9, 2004.

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• An ex-girlfriend once got upset when I told her that music is the most important thing in my life. It's more important than anyone else could ever be. I don't want to be overly dramatic and say it's the only thing that gets me up and keeps me going. But people in your life come and go. As you go through your life, you make friendships, you break friendships, you have relationships. Music is the one thing I've always been able to rely on.

  Ben Gibbard

  Girlfriend, People, Upset

  "The Meaning Of Life". www.pastemagazine.com. April 10, 2008.

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• I remember having some problems with [the Deus Ex theme] when I first heard it and I was trying to figure out how to tell [Alex Brandon] I wanted changes. But then I noticed that I couldn't get it out of my mind. I was whistling or humming it to myself all the time. So I just kept my mouth shut and let it be. I think it's a highly addictive tune

  Warren Spector

  Thinking, Mind, Trying

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• President Obama is in China. Also in China is evil Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. They're both in China at the same time. It's like running into your ex-girlfriend on vacation.

  David Letterman

  Running, Girlfriend, Vacation

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