#friends

I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly. ↗

— Mos Def

#began #being #declaring #def #family

I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#go #i #live #movies #normally

Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed up speaking English and suddenly I could speak with all the complexity and nuance that I hadn't realized was gone. With Lucy I was a native speaker. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#conversation #friendship #beauty

I have friends who are so sarcastic but I never view it as mean. ↗

— Kat Dennings

#i #mean #never #sarcastic #view

I text a lot people, because it's how I stay connected with all my family and friends when I'm on set and traveling. ↗

— Ashley Tisdale

#connected #family #friends #how #i

Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it's fun to know people are watching, and to know that all of your hard work is not sort of wasted. ↗

— James Denton

#friends #fun #hard #hard work #i

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#democratic #enterprise #even #free #free enterprise

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old. ↗

— George Eliot

#fibers #friends #how #knit #love

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them. ↗

— Thucydides

#doing #favors #friends #our #secure

When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#delay #different #different set #elections #else