Keep Your Friends Close Quotes

• Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

  Mario Puzo

  Inspirational, Movie, Hollywood Films

  The Godfather: Part II (motion picture) (1974). Coauthored with Francis Ford Coppola.

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• Know the enemy and know yourself.

  Sun Tzu

  Fear, Military, War

  The Art of War ch. 3 (translation by Yuan Shibang)

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• There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

  Al Pacino

  Father, Enemy, Rooms

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• If you have an argument with someone and you sulk, sometimes you don't want to speak to them. But it is important to keep your friends close to you and do the right things.

  Jermain Defoe

  Important, Want, Argument

  "'There's more to life than football': Jermain Defoe bares his soul on matters of life, death and the beautiful game" by Martin Lipton, www.mirror.co.uk. September 4, 2012.

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• Keep your friends close - and your rivals even closer.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Rivals

  "Mindfulness in Everyday Life: The Heart of Leadership, An Ode to Nelson Mandela" by Donna Rockwell, PsyD, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2013.

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• If anything in this life is certain...if history has taught us anything, it's that you cn kill anyone.

  Mario Puzo

  Taught Us, Life Is, This Life

  The Godfather: Part II (motion picture) (1974). Coauthored with Francis Ford Coppola.

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• Keep your friends close and your enemies dead and buried in the basement.

  Mark Frost

  Enemy, Buried, Basements

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• I don't like the saying keep your friends close and enemies closer. I want my enemy on a different planet.

  Wanda Sykes

  Enemy, Different, Want

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• Jace perched on the windowsill and looked down at him. "You really don't get this bodyguard thing, do you?" "I didn't even think you liked me all that much," said Simon. "Is this one of those keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer things?" "I thought it was keep your friends close so you have someone to drive the car when you sneak over to your enemy's house a night and throw up in his mailbox." "I'm pretty sure that's not it

  Cassandra Clare

  Night, Thinking, Car

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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