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• One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.

  Vanilla Ice

  Ferrari, Value Of Life, Found

  "Is this it?". Interview with Alex Rayner, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2007.

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• The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.

  Sergio Aragones

  Losing Friends, Being Sad, Events

  Q&A with Sergio Aragonés, sergioaragones.com.

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• What we've tried to do is have neighbors, colleagues, friends and family talking.

  David Plouffe

  Talking, Neighbor, Colleagues

  'FOX News Sunday' with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. November 02, 2008.

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• When I'm on my own, I can be negative. I need my friends and family around to help pick me up if I've had a bad qualifying session. I think insecurity plagues a lot of sportspeople.

  Jenson Button

  Thinking, Pick Me Up, Insecurity

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• Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!

  Oscar Pistorius

  Thank You, Athlete, Hands

  Twitter post from Jul 04, 2012

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• Talking with my friends and family every day helps keep me grounded and connected to home. They are the most important things to me.

  Colbie Caillat

  Home, Talking, Important

  "Up Close with Colbie Caillat". Interview with Jené Luciani, www.shape.com.

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• My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Love, Family, Ideas

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• Wonderful. What's the point of throwing a hissy fit without friends and family on hand to hear it?" -Amy Cahill

  Gordon Korman

  Hands, Amy, Wonderful

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• Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

  LeBron James

  Family, Basketball, Mean

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• When I do get the chance I just love to hang around at home with friends and family.

  Delta Goodrem

  Home, Chance

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• The most valuable lesson I've ever learned in my life is that life is about family and friends, not about material things or any of that. It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.

  Vanilla Ice

  No Friends, Lessons, Matter

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 14, 2011.

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• People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.

  Keith Henson

  Loyalty, Thinking, People

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• When I was a child, I thought of my Delta town as the center of the universe, but now I realize how little I know about the universe. As a child, I thought I was immortal, but now I recognize how limited a time we all have. As a child, success meant scoring A on every exam, but now I take it to mean good health, close family and friends, achieve- ments in my work, and helping others.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Children, Mean, Helping Others

  Ahmed H. Zewail (2002). “Voyage Through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize”, p.236, World Scientific

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• Regardless of how many people I surrounded myself with, no matter how many friends and family I loved and was loved by in return, I was alone at the moment of being born and at the moment of dying. Nobody came with you and nobody went with you. It was a journey of one.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Journey, People, Dying

  Karen Marie Moning (2009). “Dreamfever: Fever Series”, p.362, Delacorte Press

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• Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times.

  Amy Grant

  Lots Of Friends, Burying, Okay

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• At this time when I turn 50, because so there's many of my friends and family who didn't get to see 50-years-old, and so, I'm celebrating for them too.

  Reba McEntire

  Years, Celebrate, Turns

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 25, 2005.

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• Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.

  Camille Paglia

  Military, Exercise, Men

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• The last thing family and friends want is for you to spend money on them that you don't have or that you can't really spare.

  Suze Orman

  Want, Lasts, Spares

  "Your Month-by-Month Money Blueprint" by Suze Orman, www.oprah.com. January 2011.

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• All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Reading, Writing, Ties Of Love

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• Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family.

  Edward Norton

  Running, Fun, School

  Interview with Teena Apeles, www.askmen.com.

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• But although she was with family and friends, she'd never felt more alone. She felt as if she'd lost a vital part of herself and she had - her heart.

  Debbie Macomber

  Heart, Lost, Felt

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• My ideal day would be to get a good work out in, listen to music, talk to my family and friends on the phone, read and go to a good movie.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Phones, Work Out

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• No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

  Bill Murray

  Lonely, Want, Felt

  "Old stone face cracks". Interview with Garth Pearce, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2005.

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• The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God's people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation.

  Joyce Meyer

  Christian, Jobs, Light

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• I like to be judged by my family and friends because they know me.

  Leighton Meester

  My Family, Know Me, Knows

  FaceBook post by Leighton Meester from Feb 03, 2013

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