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• When people say (nice) things you take them as compliments and it's nice, but it won't help you win your next game. The thing I am trying to keep in mind is that relying on my past performance will not make me win my next game, it'll only get in my way.

  Greg Maddux

  Nice, Winning, Past

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• I guess anytime you are mentioned with Hank Aaron, it is the ultimate compliment, not only as a hitter, but obviously, the great ballplayer that he was.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Ultimate

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• Shooting at a man who is returning the compliment means going into action with the greatest speed of which a man's muscles are capable, but mentally unflustered by an urge to hurry or the need for complicated nervous and muscular actions which trick shooting involves.

  Wyatt Earp

  Mean, Men, Needs

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• It's where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this. Plus it's not a purse, it's called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.

  Alan Garner

  Hangover, Indiana, Purses

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• Conventional compliments often take the form of judgments however positive, and are sometimes offered to manipulate the behavior of others. NVC encourages the expression of appreciation solely for celebration.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Appreciation, Communication, Expression

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• I am a free man―and I need my freedom. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company. What do you want of me? When I have something to say, I put it in print. When I have something to give, I give it. Your prying curiosity turns my stomach! Your compliments humiliate me! Your tea poisons me! I owe nothing to any one. I would be responsible to God alone―if He existed!

  Henry Miller

  Heart, Sunshine, Men

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• Compliments and praise, for their part, are tragic expressions of fulfilled needs

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Expression, Needs

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• People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl.

  Victoria Beckham

  Girl, Fashion, People

  "MarieClaire.com Exclusive: Victoria Beckham Tells All". Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.marieclaire.com. October 6, 2010.

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• I don't like compliments. No. I prefer criticisms; prefer to prove them wrong

  Paul Scholes

  Criticism, Prove Them Wrong, Prove

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• Wouldn't you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It's a great thrill. It's an honor. It's a compliment. It's fun. I'm enjoying every minute of it!

  Abbie Hoffman

  Fun, Honor, Thrill

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• I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.

  Josh Brolin

  Artist, Reality, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I know who I am supposed to be with. Im just waiting until the time is right. I know what i want. I want to be so sure of everything in my life and be so good on my own that someone just comes in to compliment it. I want somebody who is happy. I dont want to meet someone who needs me. I want someone who is good on his own.

  Amanda Bynes

  Who I Am, Waiting, Needs

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• At a wedding last week, my wife said: 'Isn't the bride beautiful ?' When I responded by saying, 'Yeah, but her blowjobs aren't half as good as yours', she got all pissed off. Women - they can't take a compliment!

  David Henry

  Beautiful, Wife, Pissed Off

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• LISP has jokingly been described as "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer." I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavour of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Intelligent, Thinking, Numbers

  "The Humble Programmer". Edsger Dijkstra's ACM Turing Award lecture, "Communications of the ACM", Volume 15, No. 10, www.cs.utexas.edu. October 1972.

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• Unjust criticism is usually disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealously and envy. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead log.

  Dale Carnegie

  Mean, Unjust Criticism, Envy

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• Free from gross passion or of mirth of anger constant spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither? Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Eye, Blood

  William Shakespeare (1838). “Complete Works: With Dr. Johnson's Preface, a Glossary, and an Account of Each Play, and a Memoir of the Author by William Harness”, p.431

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• No matter where you go, poor people have the capacity to endure. Some people even compliment us on it, as if endurance is all we can achieve.

  Victor LaValle

  People, Endurance, Matter

  Victor LaValle (2011). “Big Machine”, p.54, Oldcastle Books

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• Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Character, Pride

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7193, Delphi Classics

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• No compliment is ever sufficient and every insult, of course, is true.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Insult, Courses, Sufficient

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• When someone accuses you of being 'childish', I think you should take it as a compliment.

  Stana Katic

  Thinking, Should

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• I wouldn't want to be a talk show host. That's another awkward compliment people make. 'You should have your own talk show.' And I think, no thank you.

  Andy Richter

  Thank You, Thinking, Should Have

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

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• Crazy is a compliment.

  Linda Rottenberg

  Motivational, Crazy

  Linda Rottenberg (2014). “Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags”, p.26, Penguin

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• I love it when a guy compliments my vibe.

  Caity Lotz

  Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's the character that is the strongest that God gives the most challenges to. Take your struggles as a compliment.

  Carroll O'Connor

  Struggle, Character, Giving

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• I might be too strung out on compliments, overdosed on confidence/ Started not to give a f- and stop fearing the consequence/ Drinking every night because we drink to my accomplishments.

  Drake

  Drinking, Night, Giving

  "Song: "Headlines" ("Take Care")". August 9, 2011.

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