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• I want to be who I am now. I rock my gray hair because it is a blessing. I colored mine for many years, but I've gotten compliments from so many men and women about being brave enough to sport the gray. I even wear it on the cover of my record. I am comfortable in my skin and I want listeners to feel that as well.

  Regina Belle

  Sports, Blessing, Men

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• It was in 1590--winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and promised to remain so forever. Some even set it away back centuries upon centuries and said that by the mental and spiritual clock it was still the Age of Belief in Austria. But they meant it as a compliment, not a slur, and it was so taken, and we were all proud of it. I remember it well, although I was only a boy; and I remember, too, the pleasure it gave me.

  Mark Twain

  Spiritual, Book, Taken

  Mark Twain (2015). “The Mysterious Stranger”, Mark Twain

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• There are records that you just sink into. They coincide with what you’re going through and become an ally. If our records do that for people, that’s the greatest compliment I could ever receive. That’s one of the reasons making music is so important to me, because there’s a very strange emotional reach. For me—more than books or movies or other things—music is like a mainline to your heart.

  Matt Berninger

  Book, Heart, Emotional

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• A lot of times I say to myself, "I wished I could be worthy of all the compliments that people give me sometimes." I'm not inventing anything that's going to stop cancer or muscular dystrophy or anything, but I like to feel that my time and talent is always there for the people that need it. When someone do say something negative, most times I think about it, but it don't bother me that much.

  B. B. King

  Cancer, Thinking, People

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• I want to compliment the fraternity and sorority organizations for taking the time to meet with us and then removing their support from the legislation that would have been so counterproductive for a goal that I think we all share - and that is making campuses safer and the successful prosecution of people who commit serious crimes. So, good on them that they backed off, and we don't have to fight them.

  Claire McCaskill

  Fighting, Successful, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I do hear snippets on the radio. I do hear a little bit of me, sometimes great chunks of me. But I have to take that as a compliment; there's no way you can get sour grapes about that. But if somebody starts taking your whole new thing lock, stock, and barrel, and do their own version of it before you do it, that's not on.

  Jeff Beck

  Locks, Radio, Littles

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• I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me - and it was such a backhanded compliment - they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'

  Kate Winslet

  Beautiful, People, Way

  "Kate Winslet: Your #1 Most Glam". Interview with Skip Hollandsworth, www.glamour.com. February 28, 2011.

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• Writing the songs at the cabin, I couldn't help but be drawn to the boom-chicka rhythms as much as I tried to fight it. But when I fought it, the creative process was interrupted, so I ended up going with it. If I'm ever accused of being derivative of my heroes then I would take that as a compliment. I like staying close to the roots of my influences.

  Dale Watson

  Song, Hero, Writing

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• I'd like to think that what I've written over the years and what I'm doing now means something to people. People in the street all the time are saying "love the new record" or "I love that record," this tune or that tune. It means an awful lot, or it's been a big part of their lives. As a songwriter, what else would you really want? You're trying to connect with people, people's emotions, and maybe say something about their lives or feelings. That's probably a good enough compliment to receive, really.

  Paul Weller

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• Having other comedians complimenting my work is the biggest accolade that I can get.

  Kevin Hart

  Comedian, Accolades, I Can

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• A day doesn't go by when I don't get a compliment on L.A. Confidential, for example.

  Curtis Hanson

  Example, Confidential

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You know how I love talking about books, and you know how I adore receiving compliments.

  Annie Barrows

  Book, Talking, Receiving

  Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.7, Dial Press

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• I gave him a compliment! All right, I told him he probably would've made, like, a really expensive slave in the, like, in the olden-timey days.

  Sarah Silverman

  Funny, Humor, Slave

  "Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• It's still a compliment when you're backed by younger and older, but it's actually unexpected. It's surprising, but for me it's in fact the most beautiful compliment.

  Stromae

  Beautiful, Facts, Unexpected

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• If I am good, people compliments me that my voice is like a CD, but whenever my voice condition is not as well and do some mistakes....I tend to sacrifice myself for my next album.

  Park Bom

  Mistake, Sacrifice, Cds

  Source: welovebom.com

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• I think the relationship between print and film is symbiotic, it's more about evolving and complimenting your existing content. The two are very much interconnected.

  Rankin

  Thinking, Two, Film

  Source: ashadedviewonfashion.com

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• if your subject is an actor, he or she will also be shorter in person than they appear onscreen. This, also, you must keep to yourself. Even if you think you are giving their lack of height a positive spin, you aren't. 'You always seem larger than life in photos, but it's nice to see that in person you're just like us' might seem like a compliment, but what a star hears is 'You're stumpy, and you will lose jobs to taller people.

  Jancee Dunn

  Jobs, Stars, Nice

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• Pretty good, you know its nice when you get people coming up to you saying Can I have a photo or an autograph; its a compliment, I think.

  Luke Pasqualino

  Nice, Thinking, People

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• I don't trust compliments. I've been getting them for years. Sometimes I deserve them, sometimes I didn't. But generally when people give you compliments there's one of two things wrong with them. Either they're false, or what's worse is they're sincere. They really mean the compliment. And then they're offering you their loyalty. And I'm kind of a stingy... Well, I don't necessarily want to give all that loyalty back. So either way, let's skip the compliments.

  Norman Mailer

  Loyalty, Mean, Two

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• There aren't really many compliments flying around with me and my friends. It's a lot of tough love. But you know, that love is there and if you need to have a serious conversation you just gotta wait for the right time to do it.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Love Is, Waiting, Flying

  "A Candid Chat With Mark Wahlberg". ABC News Interview, abcnews.go.com. September 29, 2006.

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• I'm really not sure what people think or expect me to be, but I am surprised when people say, 'You're not supposed to be like that ' I'm not exactly sure what 'that' is, so I choose to take it as a compliment.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Thinking, People, Not Sure

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• I'm trying to teach people of all ages to, number one: how to criticize, how to offer creative analysis on top of that, how to try to build things in a new direction and how to compliment people when the thing gets done.

  Ray Bradbury

  Numbers, People, Creative

  Source: www.tangentonline.com

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• My highest compliment is when someone comes up to me to say, "My 14-year-old daughter, or my 12-year-old son read your book and loved it." I cannot conceive of a greater compliment than that - to write something that as an adult I find satisfying, but also that manages to reach a curious 13- or 14-year-old.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Daughter, Book, Writing

  Goodreads interview, www.goodreads.com. December, 2008.

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• Men accept compliments much better than women do. Example: "Mitch, you look great." Mitch: "Thanks." On the other side: "Ruth, you look great." Ruth: "I do? Must be the lighting."

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• A compliment would be the last thing out of my mouth to a man who was so pigheaded that he could be served at a luau.

  Katie MacAlister

  Men, Mouths, Lasts

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