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Friendship Quotes
"If you're doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, you're not going to have a relationship with them, they're not going to like you, they're not going to be your friend."
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"It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship."
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"Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there."
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"As for you, my beloved friend, I loyally believe in your uniqueness; but whenever I try to tell to you wherein it consists, I helplessly describe only a type."
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"We're drinking my friend, To the end of a brief episode, Make it one for my baby, And one more for the road."
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"Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable."
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"Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to."
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"Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances."
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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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"I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink."
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"A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends."
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"Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes."
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"True friendship doesn't include jealousy."
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"But I didn't. I didn't say anything, if only because I had no idea how to respond to such an overture. If my experience with friends was sparse, what I knew about boys- other than a competitors for grades or class rank- was nonexistent."
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"We didn't talk about the decision at all, which was great, just to get together as friends. The only thing he said to me was 'It's your decision. Just do what you have to do and I will back you 100 per cent."
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"Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship."
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"Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends."
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"Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth."
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"You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends."
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"Usually after a good puke you feel better right away. We hugged each other and then said good-bye and went off to opposite ends of the hall to lie down in our own rooms. There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends."
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"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."
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"I was a loner and never hung out with anyone. I never had any friends."
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"The other day a friend called and told me they made a porn film using the title of my first movie. I guess you know you've made it when there's a porn parody of a movie you've done."
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"There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend."
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"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."
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"He thought about this for a second. "True. But if you never really make friends, you probably don't have anyone to be your 2 a.m. Which would kind of suck. I just looked at him as he stirred his soup, carrots spinning in the liquid. "Your what?" "Two a.m." He swallowed, then said, "You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter what, you can count on them. Even if they're asleep or it's cold or you need to be bailed out of jail...they'll come for you. It's, like, the highest level of friendship."
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"We all laughed. It was more like that whole thing that I was talking about earlier. You go to training camp and after the season is over, you might not see the guys for six months until you go back to training camp."
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"Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking."
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"Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?"
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"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger."
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"That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend."
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"We're lucky, real lucky. Our friends lost their house. We just had some burning embers put holes in the screens."
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"My Republican friends are lamenting reconciliation. But I would recommend for them to go back and look at history."
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"Friends are the greatest labor and the greatest reward."
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"I usually try on at least 20 pairs of jeans before I find something that looks good on me. And even then, I have a trustworthy friend tell me if my butt looks big!"
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"There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other."
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"The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them."
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"Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long."
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"A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably."
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"I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life."
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"If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing."
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"The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ."
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"Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that."
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