Exes Quotes - Page 17

• As far as advice goes, an ex-father in law of mine once gave me the best advice I ever heard. He said, "Take my advice and do what you want to." So with that, go on.

  Willie Nelson

  Father, Law, Advice

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• For me, once I've worked on something and it's finished, it's like an ex-boyfriend: you don't go back to them.

  Michelle Ryan

  Ex Boyfriend, Finished

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• I saw Farrah Fawcett originally when she and her boyfriend, Lee Majors, came over to my house for a birthday party that I was having for my ex-wife, Leigh Taylor-Young.

  Ryan O'Neal

  Party, Wife, House

  "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 11, 2012.

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• There's no ex out there who I'm not friends with today, and I'm extremely thankful for that.

  Taylor Lautner

  Today, Not Friends

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• I'm really only capable to two emotions at this point: lust and hunger. I lost revenge a few years back, and even then, it was reserved only for ex-girlfriends and particular football games that caused me to lose a lot of money.

  Jason Mulgrew

  Football, Girlfriend, Revenge

  Source: therumpus.net

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• He's by best friend and the father of my children. He's a great ex.

  Sarah Ferguson

  Friendship, Children, Father

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• Everybody knows I have the ratchetest booty tattoo of an ex-boyfriend.

  Adrienne Bailon

  Tattoo, Ex Boyfriend, Booty

  "Adrienne Bailon Really Hates Her Rob Kardashian ‘Booty Tattoo’", www.huffingtonpost.com. July 19, 2013.

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• I have to deal with seven ex-stray dogs, and one ex-stray cat. One dog is nearing nineteen years old. Before I go to teach, he likes for me to tell him bedtime stories.

  George Singleton

  Dog, Cat, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I get some female attention from fans, but mostly it's people asking for advice about a situation with their ex or their boyfriend, so it's not all love letters and fan mail!

  Matthew Hussey

  People, Advice, Fans

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Three factors--the belief that child care is female work, the failure of ex-husbands to support their children, and higher male wages at work--have taken the economic rug from under that half of married women who divorce.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Husband, Children, Taken

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• My parents, my teachers, my friends, my ex-wife-everybody held up a mirror and I accepted the image that came back. Well, it finally dawned on me that my reflection in others' eyes was the truth once removed.

  Richard Moran

  Teacher, Self Esteem, Eye

  Richard Moran (1990). “Dallas Down”, Jove Publications

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• When I became a feminist, when the movement started in the late sixties, I started writing because I had something urgent to say. My first novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, is the product of that urgency.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Queens, Writing, Prom Queen

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• At the factory, I deal with ex-cons, substance abusers, and sexual harassers. And I'm not just talking about my mom.

  George Lopez

  Funny, Mom, Humor

  "George Lopez". www.imdb.com. 2002 - 2007.

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• You never date someone's ex-boyfriend. Period. That's not even the unspoken rule - that's the spoken rule.

  Eva Longoria

  Ex Boyfriend, Periods, Unspoken Rules

  "Eva Longoria Parker Shows Her Sexy Side". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. December 28, 2008.

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• There's this whole post-modern, nuevo beatnik, retro-bohemian thing going on, you know what I mean? You walk into some coffee shops, and it feels like you're an ex-patriot in Paris in the 20s. You're like, 'Hey, isn't that a young Ernest Hemingway over there? Yeah, I think it is! Hey, let's go have a look and see what he's writing... It's a Gap application.'

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Coffee, Writing

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• But I noted with real satisfaction how well ex-footballers seemed to have leadership qualifications . . . I believe that football, perhaps more than any other sport, tends to instill in men the feeling that victory comes through hard - almost slavish - work, team play, self-confidence, and an enthusiasm that amounts to dedication.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sports, Football, Team

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• Ex-girlfriends will find themselves in my new routine. Sometimes they like that, and sometimes they definitely do not. But comedians should come with a giant warning or disclaimer: IF YOU DATE ME, IT WILL BE IN MY ACT.

  Dane Cook

  Girlfriend, Comedian, Giants

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• For me to give my advice to somebody who's thinking about going back to an ex or keeps on going back to their ex, you'll know when you're done. You'll know when you're finished with that person. You'll know when you're over them and ready to move, but nobody else can tell you that.

  Sevyn Streeter

  Moving, Thinking, Giving

  Source: popcrush.com

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• When I write my annual tax column, some ex-IRS agent will complain, "There you go IRS bashing again." They're always saying that they're just doing their job. Someone I know once said, "You could get another job."

  Dave Barry

  Jobs, Writing, Irs

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• Pakistan's ruler Pervez Musharraf predicted the Taliban will fall for hiding Osama bin Laden. Ex-king Zahir Shah is standing by to replace Mullah Mohammed Omar. And the most ominous sign of all, President Bush has learned all their names.

  Argus Hamilton

  Kings, Fall, Names

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• I was lucky I wasn't a better boxer, or that's what I'd be now - a punchy ex-pug.

  Bob Hope

  Adversity, Pugs, Lucky

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• Here I am: a Russian-speaking Jew living in Canada, and you, an Indian ex-patriot living in San Francisco. All of a sudden we commune in this moment about a much older Russian political dissident.That's the human part of being human: feeling those moments.

  David Bezmozgis

  San Francisco, Here I Am, Political

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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• But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
  [Lat., Sed profecto Fortuna in omni re dominatur; ea res cunctas ex lubidine magis, quam ex vero, celebrat, obscuratque.]

  Sallust

  Principles, Oblivion, Fortune

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• He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it.
  [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Ornaments, Modesty, Maximum

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• Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!

  William Howard Taft

  Funny, Humor, President

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