I'm a good friend.
I was talking to my good friend Kid Rock a while ago, and he told me if I'd send him a helmet, he'd send me an autographed platinum record. I thought that was a pretty sweet swap.
I have a good friend who's a Texas girl; Texas girls are a whole different breed.
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to balance it as well as you can.
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!
A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film.
If a friend asks a favor, you should grant it if it is reasonable; if not, tell him plainly why you cannot: You will wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.
Every record I have done was because I was a person's friend. The only time we did not continue to be friends was if the record did not become a hit. If it did, we became great friends.
President Kennedy was the greatest man I ever met, and the best friend I ever had.
Gore Vidal has been a friend of mine for years, and he's one of the greatest writers in American history.
When I set up my first restaurant, I was so inspired by Wolfgang Puck, who is also based in L.A. and is now a good friend of mine, and the way he would engage with his customers and greet them personally.
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
I think the world of Dave Griffin. I worked with him in Phoenix, got to know him very well, and consider him a friend.
My friend... used to tease me about a tattoo I had right here, but it was so big, and what he was teasing me about - he said it looked like a flying monkey. It's supposed to have been a grim reaper holding a ball. But it did look like a monkey.
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
I have known Harold Ford Jr. since before he was born, in that his father was my driver in the 1966 governor's race, and has remained a friend of mine all these years.
Harvey Milk was a friend of mine, an important gay leader in San Francisco in the '70s, and he carried a really important message about how important it was to be visible, how important it was to come out, and that was the single most important thing we had to do.
