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I met my wife when I was 18, and we're still totally in love. I was in a s... GLEN PHILLIPS Most of my ex-girlfriends are still close friends. I guess when you are with someone that long, unle... RYAN KAVANAUGH Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living. CARLOS FUENTES If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career. LARISA OLEYNIK I certainly believe that all of my friends should have the right, as Marc and I did, to marry their ... CHELSEA CLINTON If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career. LARISA OLEYNIK Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges o... FEISAL ABDUL RAUF My best friend Jerry started a boat-washing business, and it was one of the most critical experience... 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CASPER VAN DIEN Its a little like looking at yourself looking in a mirror looking at yourself looking in a mirror. LOIS LOWRY My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my w... JON LANDAU I have a group of friends in my life, and we all give each other something different. I've known... BROOKE SHIELDS It's funny - almost every comedian that I started out with moved to L.A., except for my two frie... ERIC ANDRE You are my best friend. And sometimes I like to check and make sure my friends aren’t dead. ALLY CARTER In first grade, I told my friends I had a third story in my house filled with jewels and lions. KENDALL JENNER My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got t... ARABELLA WEIR I was crying for the little girl I had been, who had withstood terrifying nightmares of death and bl... CHERYL R. COWTAN I use Facebook quite a lot to keep up with my friends, although I had to delete 'Words With Frie... JOSHUA BELL 'Party Down' was one of the most magical, special experiences of my professional career. Als... KEN MARINO I definitely had a weird thing of being attracted to older men. Never my family friends, never my da... ALIA SHAWKAT My Best Friend and I have spent plenty of time together, despite me being in my First Ever Relations... HOLLY SMALE My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel... GALE HAROLD The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. HENRY DAVID THOREAU I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different... HARUKI MURAKAMI I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs... DON HEROLD I'm not any kind of kingmaker or any kind of political machine, ... But I do have allies and I do ha... ALCEE HASTINGS I'm more of the girl who's always in the friend zone, and I try to help if my other friend w... REBEL WILSON My parents are doctors, both my sisters are doctors, so I figured I'd just be a doctor too. Some... BEN SILBERMANN I enjoy creating relationships with my teammates, my friends, and I genuinely care about people. CARSON WENTZ One of my best friends had a tough time getting pregnant, and her situation had me really thinking a... JOANNA KRUPA I realized that I was asexual because when I was young, all of my friends started being attracted to... DAVID JAY [In my youth], I played a little soccer but I think because of my height and my friends I got involv... FABRICIO OBERTO Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends. SADE ADU I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my godd... WARREN G. HARDING Once upon a time, I had two close friends. Shocking, I know, given my natural charm, but there are t... JULIE KAGAWA A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends. BETTY WHITE I have had friends who I decided were not good friends, were people who brought more trouble than ha... DAVE EGGERS I'm so happy because today I found my friends- they're in my head KURT COBAIN I was a child who went about in a world of colors... My friends, my companions, became women slowly;... FRIDA KAHLO I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child. KEITH EMERSON I was the guy who was friends with everybody. Yes, I had my core group of friends, but I wasn't ... AUSTIN STOWELL Twitter means all my friends are in my computer. All my ideas are in my computer. I can do whatever ... CAITLIN MORAN I had a lot of conversations with my family, my close friends, with my pastor, with God, and kind of... CAITLYN JENNER David Fincher is a longtime friend. 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MIKE VOGEL I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missi... VICTORIA AZARENKA I couldn't live like that with my friends worshipping money. I couldn't live like that. People wante... BRIAN WELCH I'm attracted to bold women - I collect them. I met one of my best friends when we both were abo... TRACEE ELLIS ROSS I have little patience with anyone who is not self-satisfied. I am always pleased to see my friends,... ROBERT MORLEY He was like my big brother. He kept us all together. I remember my friends and buddies that I lost. JOE DITILLIO When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend... JANE SMILEY My friends are my inspiration, and all of them are true friends that support me. On a daily basis, I... REEM ACRA I called, like, a lot of people, ... I called my parents and all my friends. Then I had to call them... 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