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• An author should be delighted, not annoyed when he hears himself persistently misquoted. He could receive no higher compliment. It proves that the world has frequent and urgent need of his thoughts and will rather change the manner in which he expresses them than do without the things expressed.

  Hesketh Pearson

  Annoyed, Needs, World

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• Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.

  Mark Twain

  Children, Two, Pity

  Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain's Aquarium: The Samuel Clemens-Angelfish Correspondence, 1905-1910”, p.16, University of Georgia Press

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• God helps me for sure every day and at every contest. I broke my hand and had to get surgery on it. The recovery was really frustrating because I had to skip three weeks at the beginning of the season. But I flipped it around and took it as a blessing. I said a lot of prayers and just asked God to do His thing. I did other things to compliment the recovery like getting the right sleep and taking care of my body. But I went back to the doctor after four weeks and he was ecstatic about the recovery of my hand. I take that as a tribute to my faith and my belief in doing the right things.

  Nick Goepper

  Prayer, Recovery, Sleep

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I throw out compliments to strangers all the time, because I would like it back at me, and do unto others.

  Nikki Glaser

  Stranger, Do Unto Others

  "The Ladies Of Nikki & Sara Live Dish On Confidence & Awkward, Uhh, Pauses". Interview with Carlye Wisel, www.refinery29.com. February 1, 2013.

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• Five Great Habits for Better Relationships: acceptance (smile each time), appreciation (say thank you to everyone), admiration (compliment people on their appearance or clothing, etc.), approval (praise immediately, specifically and repeatedly), and attention (be a good listener).

  Brian Tracy

  Appreciation, Acceptance, People

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• To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being.

  William E. Gladstone

  Men, Oxford, Giving

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• None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses.

  Mark Twain

  Pay, Favour, Ass

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• I take compliments and I take constructive criticism. Not everyone loves you. It's the way you react as a footballer. I use it all to make me play better.

  Tim Cahill

  Love You, Play, Criticism

  "Shooting star: Tim Cahill". Interview with Dan Rookwood, www.smh.com.au. April 2, 2009.

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• Ozzie Newsome hit a home run by drafting Bernard Pierce. He is a great compliment to Ray Rice.

  Marshall Faulk

  Running, Home, Rays

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• Yves Saint Laurent gave women power, Chanel liberated them and when I joined Lanvin, I thought 'what do I bring to women? One day, I received an SMS from a friend in New York - she was in a taxi on the way to court to face her arsehole ex-husband, and she said to me 'Alber, I am wearing a Lanvin dress, and I feel so protected.' That to me was the biggest compliment I ever received. To have a 500 gram piece of silk make her feel protected - that made me very happy indeed.

  Alber Elbaz

  New York, Husband, One Day

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• There's a joke in everything, the trick is finding it. The best compliment a joke can get is what Huxley said about Darwin's theory of evolution - 'Why didn't I think of that?'

  Emo Philips

  Thinking, Theory Of Evolution, Huxley

  "Emo Philips" by Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• Apple no longer builds any products. When I was there, people used to call Apple "a vertically integrated advertising agency," which was not a compliment.

  John Sculley

  Agency, Apples, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Finding your look isn't complicated if you go in without being frightened. Notice what people are complimenting you on. Experiment with new things once in a while, but have your tried-and-true pieces that work.

  Lauren Hutton

  People, Looks, Pieces

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• There's been a lot of comparisons to "The Prisoner," and sometimes people take a negative tact on that, but to be really honest, I count that as a compliment, in the sense that what I felt "The Prisoner" was for the '60's, in how the individual triumphs over the state and authority, our show is really about how complacent we have become in our lives, which are scrutinized.

  Remi Aubuchon

  People, Triumph, Negative

  Source: collider.com

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• I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.

  Mandy Moore

  Thinking, People, Role Models

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Calling a show a 'guilty pleasure' is like saying 'I'm embarrassed to say I watch it but I can't stop.' That's not a compliment.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Watches, Calling, Guilty

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• When Steve Ballmer calls me wacko, I consider that a compliment.

  Scott McNealy

  Call Me

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• All I knew about Ireland before I went there was what I learned from watching soap commercials all my life. I was totally misinformed. I thought it was an Irish tradition where you don't even take a shower with your soap - you take your soap for a walk, you compliment the soap for a little while and then, suddenly, you just start hacking it up with a hunting knife.

  Arj Barker

  Hunting, Knives, Littles

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• There's nothing better than listening to music that compliments my mood.

  Jasmine V

  Listening, Mood, Listening To Music

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• We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment.

  C. S. Lewis

  Writing, Trying, Pieces

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “An Experiment in Criticism”, p.32, Cambridge University Press

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• Well, I'm certainly glad that I was nominated for an Oscar. There is certainly a respect that comes with that nod. Also, a compliment that comes with it, too. Not that I really know what I'm doing. In a lot of ways I feel like some child on set, or like a kid that snuck in the back door.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Children, Kids, Doors

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• Thank you, but I'm afraid I can't accept your compliment. You see, I'm an atheist, so if I'm also God, that would mean that I don't believe in myself, and at this point in my life, I don't need the added insecurity.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Atheist, Believe, Mean

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• There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Facts, Degrees, Regimes

  Sinclair Lewis (2017). “It Can't Happen Here”, p.235, Penguin UK

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• We learn to praise God not by paying compliments but by paying attention.

  Frederick Buechner

  Attention, Praise, Praise God

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith”, p.320, Zondervan

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• One of the young production assistants (on 'Terminator: Salvation') stepped over to my chair and said, 'Mr. Ironside, are you any relation to the Ironside who was in 'Top Gun'?' And I said, 'I am, yes.' And she grinned and said, 'I knew it! Talent must run in your family!' And she walked away. And all of the producers and directors kind of looked at me uncertainly, and I said, 'What are you guys so uncomfortable for? That's an incredible compliment. I do look like the father of that guy, for Christ's sake!'

  Michael Ironside

  Running, Father, Gun

  Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. October 13, 2009.

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