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• I have so many friends who don't know how to cook.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Cooks, Know How, Knows

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• I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated and I've never been really close to anyone.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Children, Loner, Isolated

  "Anthony Hopkins: 'I've never been really close to anyone'". Interview with John Crace, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2012.

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• I believe that, not only in chess, but in life in general, people place too much stock in ratings – they pay attention to which TV shows have the highest ratings, how many friends they have on Facebook, and it’s funny. The best shows often have low ratings and it is impossible to have thousands of real friends.

  Boris Gelfand

  Real, Believe, Tv Shows

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• You're hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can't make yourself content.

  Emily Bronte

  Care, Please, Hard

  Emily Bronte (1858). “Wuthering Heights”, p.68

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• It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny.

  Terry Pratchett

  Enough, Being Bad

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• How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or, for that matter, awarded--because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality that shone through for only an instant, and in circumstances you could never reproduce? An illusion of water shimmering at the far bend of a highway.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Opportunity, Water, Personality

  Kevin Brockmeier (2008). “The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories”, p.123, Vintage

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• I wanted to be part of a high-class scene of musicians. It was half-inspired because I didn't have many friends, and I was hoping that I would meet people and fall in love and start a community around me, the way they used to do in the '60s.

  Lana Del Rey

  Falling In Love, Class, People

  "Lana Del Rey hoped music industry would make her more friends" by Leah Simpson, www.digitalspy.com. January 29, 2012.

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• That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.

  Dana Spiotta

  Reason, Listening To Music

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• It would make me a lot happier if I could meet up again next year with as many friends as possible from all over the world who I've met during my career. That's where the great opportunity lies, for me personally, in our role as World Cup host.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Lying, Opportunity, Years

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• It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn't know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.

  Bela Lugosi

  Umpires, People, Hell

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• In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer.

  Mary Wesley

  Friends, Vocabulary, Important

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• Stan Hack has as many friends in baseball as Leo Durocher has enemies

  Gabby Hartnett

  Baseball, Enemy, Hacks

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• It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.

  Casey Stengel

  Friends, Sports, Wonderful

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• There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny Friendship, Good Man, Fool

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• As long as you are lucky, you will have many friends; if cloudy times appear, you will be alone. -Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos; tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris

  Ovid

  Friendship, Long, Lucky

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• We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.

  Samuel Johnson

  May, Few Friends, Made

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• The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one another? Peace, brothers, is better than war. In a long and bloody war, we lose many friends, and gain nothing. Let us then live in peace and friendship together, doing to each other all the good we can.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, Brother, War

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution”, p.163, Algora Publishing

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• As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Language

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.393

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• You'll have many, many friends, but if your relationship with your mate is one hundred per cent of your heart, you'll never need a friend.

  Bill Cosby

  Friends, Heart, Needs

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• Never had I had so many friends and so much fun as I did in the projects.

  Willie Stargell

  Friends, Sports, Fun

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• Friendship is very important to me. With some friends, we've known each other since we were kids and it's a very strong relationship. They always tell me what they think even when I am wrong. It's great to share with them the best moments. I also have many friends in the team, and I like to share my passion with them.

  Valentino Rossi

  Strong, Team, Kids

  Source: www.cycleworld.com

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• You can never have too many friends.

  James Garner

  Fashion Shoe, Hello Kitty

  "James Garner: A Lawyer Reflects on the Actor's Legal Legacy (Guest Column)" by Neville Johnson, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 23, 2014.

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• I asked many friends if Australian anti-intellectualism was still a living force and they all told me it was. If you are above average intelligence, hide this embarrassing fact.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humor, Average

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• When you hear that my body has ceased to exist, please do not feel sad. Just look deeply and see that my life and work continue in so many friends, so many young people, in their own ways and through their work. I will continue in everyone and everything I have ever touched. I have nothinng to fear and nothing to regret.

  Chan Khong

  Death, Regret, People

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• No matter how much money you make or don't, how many friends you think you have or lack or how much you know you are loved - or not, we all cherish one thing above all else, the intrinsic need to connect

  Lisa Bloom

  Thinking, Needs, Matter

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