"I consider myself to be a true friend of the Israeli people. But I define friendship as someone who takes care of a friend, who just doesn't use or exploit a friend. And, you know, there's that old adage: 'Friends don't let friends drive drunk'."

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Source : Speech at New York Ethical Culture Society, 2006.

Scott Ritter

#True Friend Quotes #Drunk Quotes #People Quotes

“I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.”
“Common sense needs to be more common.”
“The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.”
“By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.”
“If you're a baseball fan and you don't know what BP is, you're working in a mine without one of those helmets with the lights on it.”
“Seasonal changes, as it were, take place in history, when there is practically an almost universal death, a falling of the foliage of the tree of life. Such were the intervals between the ancient and mediaeval time, the mediaeval and the modern.”
“I havent even watched that many movies; Im, like, a weird actor.”
“Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or reading about emotional crises among folk who live in a world of great fortune both in matters of luck and money; stories and fantasies about rock stars and film stars, sporting millionaires and models; jet-setting members of the aristocracy and international financiers.”

Source : James Kelman (2012). “And the Judges Said&…: Essays”, p.56, Birlinn

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