Former Quotes

965 Former quotes by 762 unique authors

Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy… — Robert Kiyosaki
Most cocktails containing liquor are made today with gin and ingenuity. In brief, take an ample supply of the former and use your imagination. For… — Irma S. Rombauer
David Beckham is a patriot, and I am sure he will help in any way he can. Beckham needs to be part of any future… — Gordon Taylor
The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which… — Noam Chomsky
Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses barechested… — Ben Shapiro
I have always had great respect for former president Mandela. The personal sacrifices he made in order to achieve what was right for the people… — Aaron Schock
We will revive the emergency employment program established by former President Corazon Aquino. This will provide jobs for local communities and will help in the… — Benigno Aquino III
Business is not a spiritual matter, and my business decisions are not based on spiritual considerations. When I founded the Essence of Life, a project… — Shari Arison
Activists from the Middle East to Asia to the former Soviet states have all been telling me that they suffer from increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks. — Rebecca MacKinnon
In China, Vietnam, Russia and several former Soviet states, the dominant social networks are run by local companies whose relationship with the government actually constrains… — Rebecca MacKinnon
Surrounded by a burgeoning human population, Asian elephants have to contend with the spread of settlements and farming, and the demands of rapidly developing nations:… — Mark Shand
At Al Jazeera, the first story I did was to sit down with a former Haitian dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier, and grill him about crimes against… — Soledad O'Brien
The government of Sudan, employing a back channel direct from its president to the Central Intelligence Agency, offered in the early spring of 1996 to… — Barton Gellman
Doing nothing would stress me out. So I am still pretty much active practicing judo with my friends, who are former judo athletes, to maintain… — Joe Taslim
Becoming a coach has to be in your blood. There are hundreds and thousands of former athletes out there, but there are maybe only 10… — Joe Taslim
In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at Lunghua camp, a former teacher training college outside Shanghai,… — J. G. Ballard
I see courage everywhere I go in Africa. Fearless human rights activists in Darfur. Women peace advocates in eastern Congo. Former child soldiers in Northern… — John Prendergast
Taking your clothes off in front of strangers is something of a hobby in Germany, among both men and women, especially in the former communist… — Luke Harding
The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen. — Jose Rizal
No former player has owned a team in baseball. — Derek Jeter

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