Samuel Johnson Quotes
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If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.
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John Boehner is a friend.
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I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.
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The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.
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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
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The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.
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I've always believed in working hard, and I'm grateful that people seem to connect with the kinds of stories I'm passionate about telling.
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That was my first introduction to BMWs in 1978, when my friend bought it for me as a surprise with my money. And ever since then, I've stuck to BMWs.
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Barbour is a brand that I have grown up with and been associated with since I was living near the borders of Scotland.
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Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
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When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet their needs, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with.
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Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues.
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I think making friends is not being afraid to look stupid, because everyone wants a friend who is willing to be stupid and fun. If you try and be too cool, it only works in high school. After that, being uncool is a very cool thing to do. So just have fun, and don't worry what other people think of you and people will want to be your friends.
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I have this friend who has a theory that lots of towns have energies. And, for instance, certain places in Alabama have bad ones because they were built on reservations or built on cemeteries or something. But Nashville has a really gravitational, magnetic pull.
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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I have learned that not diamonds but divorce lawyers are a girl's best friend.
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Eminem is more like a friend. And I'm also a fan on Eminem.
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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
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'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is based is my favorite - the myth of the Monkey Lord who loved so much that he created chaos wherever he went.
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There's a tendency to look at anybody who joined the military as if they underwrote everything that happened policy-wise. That's not really the case. I have a friend who both protested the Iraq War and joined the military, and ended up serving two deployments in Afghanistan.
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I tried not to make God this big deal in Joan's life. She treats God like a friend: she's nice to him some days, and other days mean, and then cries when she needs help.
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Five of the above rules are of absolute necessity, and cannot be dispensed with without essential defect and often without error.
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When I started The Shins, it really was just me, alone, but it was still The Shins. I was totally recording stuff and writing songs as The Shins and all of that. So the beginning inception of the whole thing was some sort of a lie, I guess.
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Officious, innocent, sincere,Of every friendless name the friend.
