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• [Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires.

  Thornton Wilder

  Self, Long, People

  Thornton Wilder (2014). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• These are things I love, things I've worn. I get more compliments on accessories than anything else. I think they're kind of like herbs and spices. They give zest and zing to an outfit.

  Iris Apfel

  Thinking, Zest, Giving

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• It's a great compliment that people think they're fast reads. It's always funny to me because it takes so long to get a book (written) -- for me, it's never quick.

  Sarah Dessen

  Book, Thinking, Long

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• I did get a nice compliment from Ramona Fradon a few years ago.She was talking about the one and only Plastic Man comic that I inked for her for DC and she said it was the only time that she'd ever had anyone ink her. Everyone else put in their own personality and changed it. In fact, bless her heart, she said if she were still doing Brenda Starr, she'd have me ink it.

  Mike Royer

  Nice, Heart, Men

  Source: comicsbulletin.com

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• Many of the network television shows have done takeoffs on 'Family Circus,' including 'David Letterman,' 'Friends,' 'Roseanne,' and others, and, in my estimation the use of them is a compliment to the popularity of the feature, which just by mentioning it's name sets up the image of a warm, loving family-type feature.

  Bil Keane

  Names, Use, Done

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• The Greeks adored their gods by the simple compliment of kissing their hands; and the Romans were treated as atheists if they would not perform the same act when they entered a temple. This custom, however, as a religious ceremony declined with paganism,but was continued as a salutation by inferiors to their superiors, or as a token of esteem among friends.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Religious, Atheist, Kissing

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• Fashion is not an investment. If you wear a dress and don't get many compliments, you won't wear it again. It's not like buying bonds.

  Carolina Herrera

  Fashion, Compliments You, Dresses

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• I think being called a she-devil by a trial lawyer is meant as a compliment.

  Ann Coulter

  Thinking, Devil, Trials

  "Ann Coulter Reacts After John Edwads Calls Her a "She-Devil". "Hannity & Colmes" with Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. August 23, 2007.

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• The kindest compliments I have ever heard are when cops tell me Training Day and Assault on Precinct 13 inspired them to become cops. The funniest compliments I have ever heard are when people tell me that 'I love your band Sugar Ray.

  Ethan Hawke

  Funny, Love You, People

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• One of the best compliments I ever got was "You know what I like about you? You're smart enough to be scared. So many guys come on cocky, they don't want to go over their stuff, they don't want to do a pre-interview. You're always smart enough to be worried till the last minute."

  Scott Raab

  Smart, Cocky, Guy

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.

  Ben Bradlee

  Children, Effectiveness, Adults

  Ben Bradlee (2011). “A Good Life”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• It takes a million compliments to build you up and one insult to send it all crashing down.

  Drake

  Insult, Crashing Down, Millions

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• I am a comedian but it's usually not a compliment to be called a prop comedian but I guess I sometimes use props. And I always confuse humorist with comedian. That's strange.

  Demetri Martin

  Comedian, Use, Strange

  Source: www.thefutoncritic.com

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• I keep very close in touch with the fans - to see what they like. I'm very in touch with my audience; I get older and they get younger, which I think is the ultimate compliment. I think hitchhiking brought a few of them out! Even though all young people have never hitchhiked, all people my age did at one point in their life, they just don't do it now.

  John Waters

  Thinking, People, Age

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• I really think that you have to find a partner that compliments you and is somebody that pushes you and is better at some things than you are, so they can push you to improve yourself as a person.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Thinking, Compliments You, Partners

  "Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl Interview KILLERS". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. May 23, 2010.

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• A reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool.

  Gelett Burgess

  Women, Fool, Hundred

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• The press still considers me one of the most laid-back athletes since Babe Ruth. That's supposed to be a criticism, but I consider it a compliment because I think being carefree on the course is one of the secrets to scoring well consistently

  Fred Couples

  Athlete, Golf, Thinking

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• You guys (Boko Haram) are trying so hard to convince everybody that you're such badasses. But all you've done with this kidnapping is highlight who the real badasses are, the kids you kidnapped. Compared to a teenager who knows that her desire for an education could get her dragged into a snake infested jungle to be sold as a bribe to some demented, stick-chewing cartoon villain but still gets up and goes to class everyday, fully aware of that danger - compared to their courage - I'd say Boko Haram is a bunch of little girls. But, you know what? You don't deserve that compliment.

  Jon Stewart

  Girl, Badass, Teenager

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• I haven't had sex with many people in my life, and everyone just assumes that I'm good in bed!! I guess that's a compliment.

  Brandon Boyd

  Sex, People, Bed

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• I do a lot of stuff with Wounded Warriors and the Armed Forces Foundation; if you want to get these guys to stop talking, start complimenting!

  Brian Kilmeade

  Warrior, Talking, Guy

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• To be unrecognizable in movies is the biggest compliment that anybody can give you.

  Michael Angarano

  Giving

  "Michael Angarano Talks THE BRASS TEAPOT, Portraying a Real Relationship in a Fantastical Story, and Remaking HEAT with Jason Statham". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 5, 2013.

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• One of my obsessions in life is that we have the tools to manufacture moments and real things, but it's overwhelming and there's a lot of fear and you think maybe you'll be rejected or embarrassed or somehow hurt emotionally. So we don't do the things we know we can do, but we can make people feel better and make people happier with compliments or just being positive and that sort of thing and sending it their way.

  Pete Holmes

  Hurt, Real, Feel Better

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Here's what happens - you create something in the moment that you feel will be good, and then... people's reactions to it or people referencing it years later, it's a compliment.

  Michael Patrick King

  Years, People, Moments

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• You gotta learn how to take a compliment, because I'm not going to stop making them.

  Claudia Gray

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• So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me 'arch priestess of the sightless,' 'wonder woman,' and a 'modern miracle.' But when it comes to a discussion of poverty, and I maintain that it is the result of wrong economics-that the industrial system under which we live is at the root of much of the physical deafness and blindness in the world-that is a different matter!

  Helen Keller

  Roots, Long, Miracle

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