W. H. Auden Quotes
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W. H. Auden
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I wouldn't wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless hours at different studios, so far apart. Even on your own lot, relationships were formal and often competitive.
Olivia De Havilland
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
H. P. Lovecraft
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I knew a ton of actors and was friends with them, but I never dated actresses. I tried to date 'normal' people because the Hollywood dating rule is 'one star per couple' because it's quite a challenge to match the egos of two actors.
Zach Galligan
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I love the Americans. They are my best friends.
Idi Amin
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A couple of my friends started having babies, and I thought, 'Maybe one day, with the right guy.' I have to find the guy first.
Gabrielle Union
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Unlike most youngsters who have school as their 'second home' where they meet and make friends, for me playtime has been at the Gopichand Badminton Academy in Hyderabad. When I am not playing a tournament, my days are spent at the Academy with my coaches, physiotherapists and colleagues, who are like family. We laugh and have so much fun.
Saina Nehwal
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. Somerset Maugham
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
A. N. Wilson
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I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.
Barack Obama
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We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.
Faran Tahir
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The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!
Taylor Swift
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I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.
Umberto Eco
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Life after all is made up of eating and sleeping, of meeting and saying good-by to friends, of reunions and farewell parties, of tears and laughter, of having a haircut once in two weeks, of watering a potted flower and watching one’s neighbor fall off his roof.
Lin Yutang
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My parents were willing to spend time and invest time in my hobbies, no matter how odd they seemed. When I was really young, I collected rocks and minerals. But mostly I would hang out with friends, playing basketball. It was not the most eventful childhood, but I think that's good.
Daniel Schwartz
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For me, I just value my friendships so much. I mean, I love my family, too, but my friends - I have a really special connection with my friends.
Jonathan Levine
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He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.
Barbara Castle
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Does this look like a dragon who would poo in a helmet???
Cressida Cowell
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W. H. Auden
