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My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do. ↗

— Stephanie Tubbs Jones

#friendship #important #job #purposes #put

As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you've done together with friends is a privilege. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#audience #done #friends #howl #mind

I know a lot of cowboys and I've done a little work on ranches with cattle, and those people become your friends, and keep their word. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#cattle #cowboys #done #friends #i

Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends. ↗

— Erica Jong

#especially #fact #friends #in fact #love

I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper. ↗

— Erica Jong

#cheaper #declining #i #i think #life

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving. ↗

— Erica Jong

#actually #bad #enough #friends #getting

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#choice #consists #friends #multitude #true

I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in "We, the people." ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#amendment #been #court #court decision #decision

I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#i #intended #never #person

We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#become #belief #common #community #done