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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• She sounds like a screeching ex-wife.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Wife, Sound

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• When I say I had a cosmic confidence that we were capable of writing good music, I'm speaking about that time when we met Sam [Fogarino]. Greg [ex-drummer] is actually a really great drummer and a great guy. I never want to sound like I am belittling his contributions in the early days, but when Sam joined, there was an immediacy of, like, "Here we go."

  Paul Banks

  Writing, Guy, Sound

  "Cap the Old Times: The Story of Interpol's Turn on the Bright Lights". pitchfork.com. November 29, 2012.

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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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• 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 reject censorship after studying the risks involved is very well. To reject it ex cathedra, in the tones of Calvin pronouncing a dogma, eyes and mind closed to the possible consequences, the even marginally possible, is to make things too comfortable for oneself.

  Storm Jameson

  Eye, Risk, Mind

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.67, A&C Black

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• There is no such thing as an ex-exhibitionist.

  Margaret Millar

  Exhibitionist

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• Every ex-player I meet says the exact same thing to me 'I wish I had given it longer'. Too many players get flights home when they have the opportunity because they' re missing their mates and home, then they go back into that environment and get comfortable.

  Kevin Kilbane

  Home, Opportunity, Player

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• I think ex-Soviet or Russian-Jewish women are tougher and that comes through. And if they are more pragmatic than the men, it's because they are obliged to be. They have all the female responsibilities and all the male responsibilities.

  David Bezmozgis

  Responsibility, Thinking, Men

  Interview with Ratik Asokan, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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• My ex-girl told me, "I love you so much, and I know it's just a phase you're going through." When a woman comes at you like that, you look at her as being so mature because she understands if I'm cheating, it's not her problem, it's mine. When a man cheats, it's not a reflection of what she's not.

  Tyrese Gibson

  Girl, Cheating, Love You

  "Ty Me Up, Ty Me Down". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. June 20, 2007.

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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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• Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Yield, Order

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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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• I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home.
  [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Death, Home, Inns

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• On tour, its either call ex-boyfriends or tweet a lot. Youre just looking for any proof that youre not completely alone.

  Chelsea Peretti

  Ex Boyfriend, Tweet, Proof

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• Most of the time, actors respond to the thing thats so far from who they are. We all want to play the serial killer and the ex-con.

  Marc Blucas

  Play, Serial Killer, Actors

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• Critics say Arnold has no previous government experience, but advisers say he's clearly the most qualified Austrian, ex-Mr. Universe in the race.

  Craig Kilborn

  Race, Government, Critics

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• It's about prioritizing. Just take it one step at a time. Do the best that you can. I'm a mom and I have two husbands - an ex husband and a next husband. It's a blended family and it's very hard to keep things together, but we're happy and we live in love. Djimon and I are so happy.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Mom, Husband, Two

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• In some instances, alimony has become akin to a social-welfare program provided by working women to their ex-husbands.

  Diane Garnick

  Husband, Welfare Programs, Social

  "Men Receiving Alimony Want A Little Respect" by Anita Raghavan, www.wsj.com. April 1, 2008.

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