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I like Scottish people because they feel very true. They're always level and straight. They get a reputation for being hardened because of it, but I find them to be scrupulously honest people. -- Rupert Friend
I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend. -- Nicholas A. Christakis
Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful. -- William Hurt
Barry Manilow has gone from being the love of my life to being a friend for life. -- Lorna Luft
I plan on being a friend, a good leader and a good governor over these next three years. -- John Rowland
It's lovely being a parent and being in a strong marriage with somebody who is your best friend. -- Johnny Vegas
Friend, there's no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments. -- Joel Osteen
Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante. -- Debi Mazar
Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first. -- Hulk Hogan
You shouldn't just work on your jump shot. You should work on being a better person, a better teammate, and a better friend. -- Sue Wicks
A good litmus test is that you should be comfortable with your significant other being present when you hang out with your friend. -- Olivia Wilde
All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend. -- Mark McCormack
No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her. -- Alexander Pope
Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses. -- Caleb Carr
Music is a nice friend to have around, whether it is just for yourself or for other people. If you can enjoy it, being professional is almost secondary. -- Arlo Guthrie
I'm passionate about being true to myself, sending good energy to the people around me, traveling, staying inspired, being a good friend, being a good daughter, being a good sister. -- Erin Wasson
There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well. -- Marlee Matlin
Being British, we tend to think of ourselves as America's best friend. And as your best friend, that gives us a little bit of license to point out things that could have been handled better. -- Philip Kerr
I've always been a person that's totally comfortable with my sexuality and showing my affections with my guy friends. At the end of the day, your guy friends are very important; they're the guys that are always going to be there. It's just you being a friend to me and I'm being a friend to you. -- Brody Jenner
I think that what drives most of us as human beings is the want for something. You might have a hope, or a big dream, or a goal that you haven't yet achieved. -- Rupert Friend
A New York friend said that visiting the South reminded her of nothing more than being in high school again. -- Rosemary Daniell
You'll never regret being a good friend. -- Emily Giffin
Happiness is being married to your best friend. -- Barbara Weeks
Sometimes being a good friend means saying nothing. -- Kristin Hannah
It's like being in love, discovering your best friend. -- Elizabeth Wein
There's a lot of advantages to being my best friend. -- Paris Hilton
If you won't be my friend, you'll regret being my enemy -- Marie Rukoski
You can be a hero to someone just by being their friend. -- Ray Rice
Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest. -- Robert Wright
A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return. -- Aristotle
The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it. -- George Meredith
Have you ever noticed that your ugliest friend is most afraid of being raped? -- Natasha Leggero
Being a friend of Fischer obviously is no undivided pleasure, though being Fischer seems sadder. -- Hans Ree
Sometimes our preoccupation is on having friends. Perhaps we should focus on being a friend. -- Elaine S. Dalton
A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need. -- Plutarch
She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend. -- William Penn
You have done it by being yourself. Perhaps that is what being a friend means, after all. -- Roy Croft
There is nothing so disturbing to one's well-being and judgment as to see a friend get rich -- Charles P. Kindleberger
It has everything to do with being a good human being. A good person. A good friend. -- Daniel Pearce
My definition of success? Being the kind of woman that I would want to have as a friend. -- Maria Shriver
I fully intend to make amends and get back to being a good mother, wife, daughter, and friend. -- Suzy Favor Hamilton
Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend. -- Marian Anderson
Laugh my friend, for laughter ignites a fire within the pit of your belly and awakens your being. -- Stella McCartney
Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never. -- Albert Camus
I wanted you to thank you for being my friend and letting me play a part in your story. -- Christopher Pike
If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend. -- Jessi Colter
You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend. -- Truman Capote
We seek friendly relations with all nations. Any nation can be our friend without being any other nation's enemy. -- Richard M. Nixon
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy. -- Lao Tzu
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy. -- Lao Tzu
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy -- Lao Tzu
There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they're useful to you and being someone's friend. -- John Ortberg
You're my best friend in the scene and together we can make sense of what's going on by being Together. -- Martin de Maat
The hardest part about parenting is when I have to be The Dad--aka the Fun-Sucker--as opposed to being a friend. -- James Patterson
To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone. -- Umar
The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard -- Barbara Tuchman
The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard. -- Barbara Tuchman
It is possible to cause seemingly biochemical changes through human emotional involvement. You literally have changed his chemistry by being his friend. -- Steve Lopez
If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved. -- Maya Angelou
I just had a responsibility to [Taylor Swift] as a friend you know, and I mean thanks for being so cool about it. -- Kanye West
I think the biggest problem is parents are so concerned with being friends with their kids. You're not their friend. You're their parent. -- Charles Barkley
I'm proud of being a mother, a wife, a daughter, and a sister, and a lover and a friend We're all God's children. -- Whitney Houston
...a good friend stands in harm's way for you the second you ask--but a great friend does it without being asked at all. -- Ian Caldwell
Don Cooper is an incredible person. He's not only a great pitching coach, but he's a great human being and a great friend. -- Jose Contreras
People love discovering you. The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs, you're their friend. -- Eileen Myles
Yet sometimes being a friend meant letting people do things that hurt, like putting distance between you, just because it made them happy. -- Ann Aguirre
When death finally comes you will welcome it like an old friend, being aware of how dreamlike and impermanent the pheneomenal world really is. -- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed. -- Samuel Johnson
Being able to make friends and keep them, welcoming others and sharing with them, a guide, philosopher and friend. One like this will be praised. -- Gautama Buddha
Loving yourself means being your own best friend, standing by yourself at all times, including times of failure; being there for yourself no matter what. -- Anita Moorjani
I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper. -- Don Cheadle
Beneath the skin, beyond the differing features and into the true heart of being, fundamentally, we are more alike, my friend, than we are unalike. -- Maya Angelou
My friend "M" says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can't smile, because your lips have rotted off. -- Isaac Marion
If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're being the listener. -- Natalie Portman
Being Christlike guarantees that you'll have the most important friend of all: the Savior. He knows what it's like to be misunderstood, lonely, and rejected. -- John Bytheway
I am not being negative, I am simply being factual when I say Kevin Rudd is the best friend the people smugglers have ever had -- Tony Abbott
Along with being forever on the move, one is forever in a hurry, leaving things inadvertently behind-friend or fishing tackle, old raincoat or old allegiance. -- Louis Kronenberger
Donâ??t get depressed about not being where you want to be. This nagging feeling of anxiety is actually called ambition. Ambition is your friend. -- Atom Egoyan
I've been accused of riding roughshod over others' emotions, and I admit, when I feel a friend is being over-indulgent, my patience is in short supply. -- Mariella Frostrup
My best friend is disabled. There's nothing he hates more than being left out of the jokes, to be treated with kid gloves. That's the insult. -- Jeff Ross
The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A fan is a fan is a friend no matter what current he/she/it operates on, AC or DC. Thanks for being one of mine. -- Burt Reynolds
I think if I have established anything in my book, it's that a key element of being my friend is being comfortable with my forced fun. -- Amy Poehler
In a new friend we start life anew, for we create a new edition of ourselves and so become,for the time being, a new creature. -- D.E. Stevenson
What is a friend if not someone you feel close to, someone you like being with, someone you can confide in and share pleasure with.-Jeremy Malory- -- Johanna Lindsey
But I have to go. Thank you, Kylie Galen. Thank you for being my friend. Thank you for teaching me to think beyond myself. Thank you for everything. -- C.C. Hunter
Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend? -- LeBron James
If you ever meet a higher being, do not worship it; only try to be its friend! Worship is primitiveness and no higher and developed being likes worshipping! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I let a friend set me up on a blind date. It was a disaster. She ended up being a burn victim. By the end of the night. -- Anthony Jeselnik
For such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find a friend. r -- William Butler Yeats
Everything comes by being! Be the love you seek. Be the friend you seek. Be the lover you seek. Be the honesty you seek. Be the integrity you seek. -- Bryant McGill
I can't really explain what it's like to be in love, but I feel like it's being comfortable. It's almost like having a best friend. It's a beautiful thing. -- Ashton Irwin
Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk. -- Judith Guest
I think brutal honesty is extremely important. Don't be afraid of being up-front about your feelings and your life. I'd rather be an honest friend than a phony lover. -- Minka Kelly

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