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Friendship Quotes
"Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence."
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"Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust."
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"To the families of special needs children all across this country I have a message for you: for years you have sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters, and I pledge to you that if we're elected, you will have a friend, an advocate, in The White House."
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"There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street."
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"De pronto no puedo decírtelo que yo te debo decir, hombre, perdóname; sabrás que aunque no escuches mis palabras no me eché a llorar ni a dormir y que contigo estoy sin verte desde hace tiempo y hasta el fin. I can't just suddenly tell you what I should be telling you, friend, forgive me; you know that although you don't hear my words, I wasn't asleep or in tears, that I am with you without seeing you for a good long time and until the end."
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"I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother."
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"A lot of student directors used to pick other students to be in their graduate films, so. I ended up doing a couple of them just for fun. Eventually, I got an agent through a friend and I did some commercials; then I got Knots Landing."
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"After September 11th, nations from across the globe offered their generous assistance to the people of New York. And whenever our friends around the world need our assistance, New York is there."
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"I don't like schools. And I mean, you have to call on all your friends to get them into their schools."
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"Your friendship is our honour; your dreams are our duty. India's capacity may be limited, but our commitment is without limits. Our resources may be modest, but our will is boundless."
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"Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance."
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"The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity."
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"Today America lost a great elder statesman, a committed public servant, and leader of the Senate. And today I lost a treasured friend. Ted Kennedy was an iconic, larger than life United States senator whose influence cannot be overstated. Many have come before, and many will come after, but Ted Kennedy's name will always be remembered as someone who lived and breathed the United States Senate and the work completed within its chamber."
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"Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends."
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"Well, if you don't want your relatives and friends to die, help me spread the news. Let people know about immortality device. That way, your loved ones won't die."
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"One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention."
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"The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."
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"You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one."
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"HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues."
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"I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."
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"I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places."
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"You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone."
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"I fell in love with Scotland and made good friends here, so I stayed after graduating with Honours in Chemistry."
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"No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world."
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"There was a friend of ours who worked with a girl who had said she would consider being a surrogate. We met her and right away she was awesome. We were looking for someone who could take care of themselves and it was pretty clear she could."
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"You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made?"
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"I started working with friends of mine and that, to some degree, continues."
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"I like friends who are honest and loyal. They also shouldn't be afraid to be a kid. I like having fun."
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"Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured."
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"Friendship like credit is highest where it is not used."
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"Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world."
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"I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male."
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"My friend Ed Begley goes fishing. It's a little smelly to me, I don't like it so much. I like to eat fish, but I don't like to catch them."
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"And say my glory was I had such friends."
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"It made me feel better. Mouse might not have been thesmartest creature on earth, but he was steady, kind, loyal, andwas possessed of the uncanny wisdom of beasts for knowingwhom to trust. I might not have been a superhero, but Mousethought that I was pretty darned cool. That meant something. Itwould have to be enough."
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"Ask your friends for help if you need it. Asking for help can be costly if you don't have friends."
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"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."
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"The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to the good of the people as a whole."
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"I am touched that you are trying to comprehend me. A friend could not be more loving."
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"Here," Myrnin said, his voice still gentle and low. "Amelie said you had to work. No one said you had to work alone." He picked up the next part and slotted it in, took the screwdriver from Claire's numbed fingers, and fastened it with a couple of deft, fast movements. "I'll be your hands."She wanted to cry, because it was so sweet, but it wouldn't do any good."
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"Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends."
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"I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial."
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"It was at a conference in Cyprus in 1976, where the theme was the rights of small nations, that I first met Edward Said. It was impossible not to be captivated by him: of his many immediately seductive qualities I will start by mentioning a very important one. When he laughed, it was as if he was surrendering unconditionally to some guilty pleasure. At first the very picture of professorial rectitude, with faultless tweeds, cravats, and other accoutrements (the pipe also being to the fore), he would react to a risqué remark, or a disclosure of something vaguely scandalous, as if a whole Trojan horse of mirth had been smuggled into his interior and suddenly disgorged its contents. The build-up, in other words, was worth one's effort."
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"I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there."
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"If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing."
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"What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine."
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"Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light."
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