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Friendship Quotes
"It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company."
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"General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be."
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"The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach."
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"Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred."
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"Thou wert my guide philosopher and friend."
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"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
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"Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee."
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"If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world."
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"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
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"He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help."
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"You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog."
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"My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right."
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"Maybe, he thought, there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends-maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for, too, if that's what has to be."
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"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing."
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"In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends."
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"The craziest thing I did to get a guy to notice me was going out with his best friend. It worked - he did notice me - but I don't recommend it."
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"The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to."
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"But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms."
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"If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend."
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"But very often in politics we have the experience called up from my father when someone was trying to help him in the campaign: I can take care of my enemies, may the Good Lord save me from my friends."
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"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read."
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"I usually only play with very close friends."
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"If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come?"
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"Silence is a true friend who never betrays."
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"Even the strongest man needs friends."
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"The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility."
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"Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it."
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"There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met."
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"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends."
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"Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working."
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"I didn't even know Michele before we started the show but we became great friends, and still are."
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"It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer."
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"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
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"The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two."
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"Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day."
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"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you."
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"I'm close with my parents. I have a lot of acquaintances, but my very good close friends are few I can count my very good friends on one hand. And that's how I like it to be."
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"My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me."
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"My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation."
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"When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school."
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"If you're in the White House, it's your house, and you can invite whatever friend you want."
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"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."
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"Friend: One who knows all about you and loves you just the same."
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"We did this two-week boot camp before we filmed the movie. I got to know everybody in the group and we became friends. We got really tight throughout those two weeks."
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"Friendship is held to be the severest test of character."
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"Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them."
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