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Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.
I asked for a tough fight, and I'm very excited to fight such a good fighter and a former champion like Frankie Edgar.
I did a book event with a former colleague, Bob Bauer, and was so relieved that he said I got all the CIA stuff right.
There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.
When former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote his recent book, 'Duty', it was full of tough assessments and candor.
I'm the former lightweight champion. I want to fight one of the top guys. I don't want to fight a guy who isn't ranked.
For players, during our active career, it is always difficult to talk about coaches - whether it is former or a current.
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
I don't think it's really good once you've lost an election to sit around, watch your former opponent, and swipe at them.
The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen.
I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.
As a former federal judge, I am cognizant of the legal issues. As governor, I am forced to deal with their ramifications.
Putin is a former KGB agent. He's a thug. He was not elected in a way that most people would consider a credible election.
George W. Bush has shown himself to be a decent guy, not exploiting his former office to make top dollars giving speeches.
Nellie Kim, an Olympic champion from the former Soviet Union, got a 10 right after me in '76, but nobody talks about that.
It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'
I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
Newt Gingrich is a boastful kind of guy. But when it comes to Wall Street, the former House speaker is surprisingly modest.
In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.
Me, Shinsuke Nakamura, and Lyoto Machida, former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, all shared a two-bedroom apartment together.
I'm a former governor, and so I was the chief executive, and when the legislature wasn't in session, I was running the state.
I was married when I was in my early twenties, and my former husband, an absolutely lovely man, didn't get the writing thing.
As a former college president, I am well aware that every university is a complicated ecosystem, not a linear widget factory.
When you are part of a group for seven years, you leave something - I hope - beautiful inside each of your former team-mates.
When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.
I didn't want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppose I am. I am going to be that.
I'm a businessman. I'm a former legislator, and I'm an executive. And I've been very effective in each one of those positions.
As a former CIA operative, I have seen first-hand that not every nation we buy energy from has America's best interest in mind.
I never agreed too much about players talking about former teammates when they go somewhere else. I've never been a fan of that.
Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.
There's only two choices when life goes wrong. You deal with it, or you check out, and, like 90% of people, I go for the former.
I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors!
The world needs many more humanitarians than it needs warriors, but there can be none of the former without enough of the latter.
On the issue of behavioral health and the like, the program we have in place has always been available to former players as well.
As a former prosecutor, sometimes people refer to me as 'Attila the Hun.' I understand how people can get a reputation sometimes.
The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.
Paul Otellini, the former CEO of Intel, I worked with while I was still with VMware. I knew Ram Shriram through the tech industry.
I call myself a FFP: former fat person, and when you're an FFP, you will always see in yourself what people used to bully you for.
Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs.
When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of salt that everybody takes that with.
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
If I am ever forced to choose between my identity as a Tamilian and an award from the central government, I will choose the former.
My mum was born in the former Czechoslovakia, and even though my grandparents weren't wealthy, they were aristocrats in their time.
I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics.
I'm fortunate that Newcastle and the fans welcomed me with open arms because I know it's not easy being a former Sunderland player.
What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.
America has two clear tiers of workers: contractors and employees. The former have few regulatory protections; the latter have many.
I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.
I went into the surgery room as my former self Neeru Bheda but came out as a new and improved version of my own self - Rakhi Sawant.
I was attached to the SAS from time to time, but we are forbidden - former, present, or future - to discuss any specific operations.