My Friends Quotes - Page 26

• People used to say to my friend Mary, a quadriplegic, 'You still have your mind.' She would say, 'I still have my body.' The world tells me to divorce myself from my flesh, to live in my head. ... I didn't want to be fleshless.

  Anne Finger

  Divorce, People, Mind

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• Because I had been in conservatory for so long, I was jealous of my friends in bands.

  Nico Muhly

  Jealous, Long, Band

  Interview with Sean Michaels, believermag.com. October 1, 2008.

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• In my early thirties I was working in television as a researcher. I was really stuck for a period of five years. I got to TV when I was thirty. I hated being a music writer, and kept wondering why I couldn't be doing the exciting things that my friends were doing in television.

  Mary Harron

  Years, Television, Tvs

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• Choosing to be loved and to take the leap to get married younger than most of my friends was not a career-limiting decision for me.

  Dana Perino

  Careers, Decision, Married

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I actually love spinning for relaxation and to keep my body healthy, but besides that, I love exploring new restaurants. I love being outdoors. I love just spending time in the sun and hanging out with my friends.

  Nina Agdal

  Love Is, Healthy, Relaxation

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• I'm definitely the person for most of my friends that everyone calls, goes to and wants advice from.

  Edwina Findley

  Advice, Want, Persons

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• I never looked at magazines before I started modeling. I was 13 or 14 and none of my friends were into magazines. We were into the fashion of the day, though. Designer jeans were really popular - Sasson, Gloria Vanderbilt, Calvin Klein, Jordache. Once I started modeling, I began to learn about these things, and magazines helped me to understand who was who.

  Christy Turlington

  Fashion, Jeans, Magazines

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I will tell you something that you don't want to hear: Autumn is ugly! Look at the dying leaves! There is no beauty in dying! Death is always ugly! The beauty of autumn is just an illusion, my friend! Wake up and see the real truth! See the crying leaves!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Autumn, Dying

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• Let the world know your dreams, my friend; realise them!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dream, World, Realising

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• My friends, I like them; my morals, I like them more!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Moral

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• Open the curtains of your mind, my friend; let the world know who you are! Do not hide your ideas; set them free, let them free! Open the curtains! Feel no fear! If there is truth in your ideas, you become invincible!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ideas, Mind, World

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• I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics.

  Winston Churchill

  Running, Exercise, Calisthenics

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• It's gotten to the point where I think my friends would rather hang out with their own kids than hang out with me. And I'm like, "Alright, but where's the loyalty, man. I've known you for twenty-five years. How long have you known your baby, like, a month?"

  Arj Barker

  Loyalty, Baby, Kids

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• They can say whatever they want to say, but it is going to be hard, my friend, to duplicate me.

  Sammy Sosa

  Want, Duplicate, Hard

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• There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends.

  Walt Whitman

  Thinking, Doubt, Enemy

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• I was never good at hide and seek because I'd always make enough noise so my friends would be sure to find me. I don't have anyone to play those games with any more, but now and then I make enough noise just in case someone is still looking and hasn't found me yet.

  Brian Andreas

  Games, Play, Would Be

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• [In 2011 on Steve Jobs] He was the most amazing person I have ever know. He was a genius. He was an innovator. He was the best client we ever had. He was my friend.

  Lee Clow

  Jobs, Genius, Clients

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• For, when all is said, as my friend George Rublee likes to put it, the only success is to be a success as a person; and it is still not too late for that.

  Learned Hand

  Too Late, Likes, Said

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• We are not immortal ourselves, my friend; how can we expect our enjoyments to be so? We have no rose without its thorn; no pleasure without alloy. It is the law of our existence; and we must acquiesce.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, Rose, Pleasure

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.322, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I would injure no man, and should provoke no resentment. I would relieve every distress, and should enjoy the benedictions of gratitude. I would choose my friends among the wise and my wife among the virtuous, and therefore should be in no danger from treachery or unkindness. My children should by my care be learned and pious, and would repay to my age what their childhood had received.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Gratitude, Children

  Samuel Johnson, Abraham Raimbach, Robert Smirke (1819). “Rasselas”, p.48

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• Food has always been my friend. When I wanted to feel better or had a crisis in my life, I opened the icebox.

  Marlon Brando

  Feel Better, Crisis, Feels

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• When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker.

  Robin Williams

  Cowboy, Chinese, Railroads

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• Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.

  Agatha Christie

  Facts, Absurd, Said

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Five complete Hercule Poirot novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• My friends tend not to style me, fortunately. But if we're in a public setting, they must do it there. Of course, there has been a maturing process for me and for them. But such is my life. I'm very comfortable with both the role and the life I live in relation to my nearest and dearest.

  Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway

  Style, Roles, Mature

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• I'm a chill guy, a very normal guy. I hang out with my friends, play video games. I'm just a normal kid.

  Andrew Wiggins

  Kids, Games, Play

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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