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I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it’s lasting me very well.

Maya Angelou

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

David Byrne

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: ‚Yes, you’re doing the right thing, you’re always right.‘ No, they tell me when I’m wrong, and that’s why I’ve been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

LeBron James

To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.

Lady Gaga

All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.

Taylor Swift

People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.

David Byrne

The kindness that’s been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it’s really saved my life.

Lady Gaga

I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it’s a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.

David Byrne

I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, ‚You’re Gaga‘.

Lady Gaga

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

H. L. Mencken

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

I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that’s how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did.

Taylor Swift

My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

Taylor Swift

I’m good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O’Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.

Kevin Hart

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

Maya Angelou

I have good friends who are politicians on both sides.

Dwayne Johnson

A lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends.

Dolly Parton

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

George Eliot

I am confident that nobody… will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

Nelson Mandela

I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope.

Terry Pratchett

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

Anthony Bourdain

The only way I hear gossip is if it’s big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it’s, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!

Taylor Swift

I don’t feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I’ve always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don’t fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.

Ariana Grande

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me.

Bad Bunny

When I’m back in New York – and this is a terrible thing to complain about – I eat a lot more really, really good food than perhaps I’d like to. So many of my friends are really good chefs. It’s kind of like being in the Mafia.

Anthony Bourdain

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

Billy Graham

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

Russell M. Nelson

It is not so much our friends‘ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Epicurus

I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn’t the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.

Lando Norris

‚Love Story‘ is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn’t like him. All of them!

Taylor Swift

Before I started school striking I had no energy, no friends and I didn’t speak to anyone. I just sat alone at home, with an eating disorder. All of that is gone now, since I have found a meaning, in a world that sometimes seems shallow and meaningless to so many people.

Greta Thunberg

I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they’re actresses or singers or things like that.

Taylor Swift

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.

Mark Zuckerberg

The first time I ever saw snow skis was when I was 62 years old and that was 19 years ago and I’m still skiing. So, we’ll be skiing with some very close friends of the Carter Center letting them know what the Carter Center is doing around the world. We have programs in over 65 countries.

Jimmy Carter

Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.

Taylor Swift

I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my friends.

Taylor Swift

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Samuel Johnson

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

Ronald Reagan

I’m pretty laid-back in real life. I just love hanging with my friends and making jokes. The jokes don’t stop – literally, all day.

The Weeknd

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

Karl Lagerfeld

I was always making my friends laugh, but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom.

Steven Wright

It’s surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

Christopher Hitchens

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They’re keeping up with their friends and family, but they’re also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They’re connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It’s almost a disadvantage if you’re not on it now.

Mark Zuckerberg

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

Ludwig van Beethoven

I’m so happy because today I found my friends – they’re in my head.

Kurt Cobain

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I’m just more sexually attracted to women. But I’m really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.

Kurt Cobain

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

Oscar Wilde

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

Arthur Schopenhauer

My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too.

Edmund Hillary

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

Mark Zuckerberg

When I do have free time, I spend it with friends, or I spend it at home writing or making something.

Billie Eilish

I need physics more than friends.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

I feel only my friends and family need to know what is happening in my personal life.

Virat Kohli

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

Virat Kohli

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

Charles Spurgeon

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it’s so much fun.

Jerry Seinfeld

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Edgar Allan Poe

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

Brene Brown

The boys know they’re from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them.

Angelina Jolie