Friends Quotes - Page 34

• It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.

  Maria Sharapova

  Party, Good Friend, Laughing

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• God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.

  Ray Bradbury

  Friendship, Inspiring, Clay

  Ray Bradbury (2013). “Something Wicked This Way Comes”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

  David Rockefeller

  Friendship, Family, Money

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every day, I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately, I have a great group of friends who help me do this.

  Bruce Willis

  Great Day, Groups, Helping

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• I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Funny, Truth, Lying

  Campaign remark, Fresno, Cal., 10 Sept. 1952. John F. Parker, in "If Elected, I Promise ...": Stories and Gems of Wisdom by and About Politicians (1969), attributes the reverse statement to Chauncey Depew (1834 - 1928): "If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican party, I'll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats."

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• To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

  Barack Obama

  Leather Jackets, Rocks, Feminist

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.100, Canongate Books

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• Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Relationship, 4th Of July

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

  Barack Obama

  Gay, Blue, League

  Keynote address at Democratic National Convention, Boston, Mass., 27 July 2004

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• The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 24, 2014

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• Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

  Confucius

  Friendship, Men, Truthful

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• It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

  E. W. Howe

  Friendship, Selfishness, May

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• It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

  Confucius

  Friendship, Trust, Betrayal

  "Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, 1665-1678.

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• I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact.

  Patrick Warburton

  Family Guy, Stuff, Yeah

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• Lately, I cant shake the feeling that Ive been living a dream for the last 10 years or so; I cant account for most of my 20s, and I have to continually remind myself that certain people are dead now and many of my friends have children.

  Chris Ware

  Dream, Children, Years

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• Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

  William Wycherley

  Book, Reading, Men

  William Wycherley (1964). “Miscellany poems concluded. Miscellaneous poems published from more correct copies. Hero and Leander in burlesque. The posthumous works”

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• The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Religious, People, Conceit

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• It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Wonderful, Used

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• And George Brett. I think most people know that George and I have become pretty good friends over the years.

  Robin Yount

  Good Friend, Thinking, Years

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• The rest of the crowd were friends of my fortune, not of me.
  [Lat., Caetera fortunae, non mea, turba fuit.]

  Ovid

  Crowds, Fortune

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• It's very important when making a friend to check and see if they have a private plane. People think a good personality trait in a friend is kindness or a sense of humor. No, in a friend a good personality trait is a Gulfstream.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Kindness, Thinking, People

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• One faithful Friend is enough for a man's self, 'tis much to meet with such an one, yet we can't have too many for the sake of others.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Self, Faithful

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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.

  Judith Viorst

  Happiness, Laughter, Wine

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

  Charles Bukowski

  Friendship, Jail, Interesting

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Notes of a Dirty Old Man”, p.128, City Lights Books

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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.

  James Cameron

  Inspirational, Motivational, Stars

  James Cameron, Brent Dunham (2012). “James Cameron: Interviews”, p.117, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

  Albert Camus

  Friendship, Honesty, Believe

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