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• You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.

  Alexander McQueen

  Ideas, Shows, Adverts

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• There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What's the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it's exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That's really cool. That's the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Goal, Trying, Cameras

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• When grace happens, we receive not a nice compliment from God but a new heart. Give your heart to Christ, and he returns the favor.

  Max Lucado

  Nice, Heart, Giving

  Max Lucado (2012). “Grace Happens Here: You Are Standing Where Grace is Happening”, p.10, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I wouldn't take it as a compliment if someone looked at one of my shoes and said, 'Oh, that looks like a comfortable shoe.' There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don't have to walk in high heels.

  Christian Louboutin

  Fashion, High Heels, Shoes

  "Christian Louboutin: How killer heels conquered fashion". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2010.

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• Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.

  Talib Kweli

  Artist, Rapper, Conscious

  "Talib Kweli On ReGENERATION Activism Documentary And Being ABBAACCSS1‘Conscious’ Rapper". Interview with Seamus McKiernan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 1, 2012.

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• I would just like a woman someday, somewhere, at some point in my life to say to me, 'You're a great listener.' Haven't heard it yet, and that's a superior compliment to get from a woman. But I'm going to work on it.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Someday, Going To Work, Heard

  "Ashton Kutcher: I Couldn’t Be With a Woman Who 'Needed to Change Me'". Women's Health Interview, www.usmagazine.com. November 18, 2011.

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• When people call me either a girl crush or their best friend, like, the best friend they want, that's, to me, the best compliment anyone could ever give me.

  Mindy Kaling

  Friendship, Crush, Girl

  "Everyone’s Hanging Out With Mindy". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2011.

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• I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.

  Wilkie Collins

  Successful, Use, May

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “The Moonstone (Mystery Thriller Classic): Detective story from the prolific English writer, best known for The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale, The Law and The Lady, The Dead Secret, Man and Wife, Poor Miss Finch, The Black Robe and more”, p.203, e-artnow

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• By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

  Samuel Johnson

  Marriage, Men, Wife

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.40

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• When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.

  Alanis Morissette

  Song, Anger, Writing

  "Alanis Morissette: 'I still have PTSD from the Jagged Little Pill era. It was a profound violation'" by Michael Cragg, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2012.

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• It's always nice to receive a compliment.

  Steven Morrissey

  Nice

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• Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud of.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Victory, Proud, Interviews

  Jack Nicklaus, Ken Bowden (1997). “Jack Nicklaus”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.

  Fred Wilson

  Crazy, Thinking, People

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• I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.

  Rachel Weisz

  People, Envy, Thrive

  "Girl behaving sensibly" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2001.

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• I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.

  Eddie Vedder

  Nice, Thinking, Two

  "Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. November 6, 2002.

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• When someone who loves and cares about me compliments me, I feel more glamorous than when the flashbulbs are going off on the red carpet.

  Gabrielle Union

  Care, Red, Glamorous

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• So many girls come up and say to me, 'I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn't even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I'm obsessed.' That's the coolest compliment to me.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Country, Records

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• People don't usually compliment your character.

  Taylor Swift

  Character, People

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• I always wonder if what I'm wearing will be something that people would compliment, or want to wear. I don't ever get ready just for myself, ever.

  Jessica Simpson

  People, Want, Wonder

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• I just think it's silly to be stingy with compliments. If you see someone and they strike you as beautiful in any way, why not let them know?

  Jill Scott

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Silly

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• I mean it as a compliment when I say that you could almost define a philosopher as someone who won't take common sense for an answer.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mean, Common Sense, Answers

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is an old joke that went around- it goes, in the beginning God made man in His own image, and since the fall, man has been seeking to return the compliment.

  Alistair Begg

  Fall, Men, Return

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• Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.

  Jules Renard

  Relationship, Like Her

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• There's a lot of gimmick infringement out there, but that's cool. It's a compliment. But it all started right when I first came into the Garden. I came down to Eye of the Tiger and when I hit the ring with the Sheik, I just put my hand up to my ear by accident, and the crowd got louder. I was like "Oh, that works."

  Hulk Hogan

  Eye, Garden, Hands

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. July 1, 2005.

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• Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.

  Jesse Ventura

  Communication, Compliments You, Talking

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