Former quotes
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I am a former sabre fencer and fenced as part of the Uzbek republic team.
-- Alisher Usmanov -
Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.
-- Augustus William Hare -
I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors!
-- Charles Kennedy -
I define a Sign as anything which is so determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines an effect upon a person, which effect I call its Interpretant, that the latter is thereby mediately determined by the former.
-- Charles Sanders Peirce -
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True nobility is being superior to your former self.
-- Colin Firth -
Being a child star is great. It's being a former child star that sucks.
-- Danny Bonaduce -
I still love my former wife, I won't call her my ex-wife.
-- Dave Pelzer -
Im a former, living, breathing, right-wing conspirator.
-- David Brock -
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Persecutors are almost always former Victims.
-- David Emerald Womeldorff -
If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.
-- Eleanor Clift -
The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.
-- George Eliot -
I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.
-- George Michael -
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I heard somebody say, 'Where's (Nelson) Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead. Because Saddam killed all the Mandelas. --George W. Bush, on the former South African president, who is still very much alive, Washington, D.C., Sept. 20, 2007
-- George W. Bush -
Of all the many memoirs by former Soviet officials, Palazchenko's is among the best written and also the most objective. Even his descriptions of U.S. policy are more accurate and judicious than those of some American scholars.
-- Jack F. Matlock, Jr. -
I'm a former bulimic myself and it's a horrible, horrible addiction.
-- Janice Dickinson -
My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her.
-- Jay McInerney -
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I shall omit former particulars, and begin with informing the Reader, that, in 1792, I was strangely visited, by day and night, concerning what was coming upon the whole earth.
-- Joanna Southcott -
I met David Smith through my former wife, Cornelia, who'd studied with him.
-- Kenneth Noland -
John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
-- M. H. Abrams -
My former health minister, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, is like a peach. I love to eat him.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
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Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being.
-- Martin Heidegger -
The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.
-- Miguel de Cervantes -
There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.
-- Moshe Dayan -
I don't fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they're former Chicagoans anyway.
-- Richard M. Daley -
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Your latter days are supposed to be greater than your former days.
-- T. D. Jakes -
Our heroes of the former days deserved and gained their never-fading bays.
-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon -
Of course former colonial powers are always more present and influential. They're the ones who need to defend the EU's values on the frontlines.
-- Alvaro de Vasconcelos -
I heard the South African 'keeper had been killed and I thought it was probably one of their former goalkeepers, but when I confirmed it was Senzo Meyiwa, I was shattered.
-- Stephen Keshi -
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Well, I'm a former FBI agent.
-- Mike Rogers -
[Michael Flynn] become someone who for a lot of his former colleagues, people like Stanley McChrystal who looked at General Flynn and sort of said, this is not the person I thought I knew.
-- John Heilemann
