Compliments You Quotes - Page 2

• You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot.

  Phyllis Diller

  Shoes, Alligators, Barefoot

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

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• Girls are trained to say, ‘I wrote this, but it’s probably really stupid.’ Well, no, you wouldn’t write a novel if you thought it was really stupid. Men are much more comfortable going, ‘I wrote this book because I have a unique perspective that the world needs to hear.’ Girls are taught from the age of seven that if you get a compliment, you don’t go, ‘Thank you’, you go, ‘No, you’re insane.

  Lena Dunham

  Girl, Education, Attitude

  "Lena Dunham: 'People called me fat and hideous, and I lived" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2014.

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• A quality person is someone with integrity. To be worthy of the highest trust is a noble attribute and compliment. You will need to maintain confidences. Certainly it is greater to be trusted than loved. Truly happy persons will always be totally honest in their dealings with their fellowman.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Integrity, Quality, Needs

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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, Dresses, Buying

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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, Partners, Improving Yourself

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

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• I think one of the highest compliments you can give a person is that when you are talking to him, you are not thinking about the fact that you are talking to him. That is, your thoughts and words all exist on a single, engaged level. You are being yourself because you aren't bothering to think about who you should be. It is like when you talk in a dream.

  David Levithan

  Dream, Being Yourself, Thinking

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• Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz.

  Michael Phelps

  Sports, Swimming, Mark

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• Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Pay, Quotations

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• Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.

  Harvey Mackay

  Funeral, Waiting, May

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• From your results I have determined that you are one of the strongest Divergent, which I say not to compliment you but to explain my purpose. If I am to develop a simulation that cannot be thwarted by the Divergent mind, I must study the strongest Divergent mind in order to shore up all weaknesses in the technology.

  Veronica Roth

  Technology, Order, Mind

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• See, when you mess something up, you learn for the next time. It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.

  Ned Vizzini

  Mean, People, Next

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• It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Nice, People, Ugly

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• If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

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• You just said you were sorry." ... "I was only apologizing," he said stiffly, "for startling you. The applause was to compliment you on the improvement in your life-saving techniques since the last time you-

  Meg Cabot

  Sorry, Lasts, Technique

  Meg Cabot (2011). “Abandon”, p.253, Scholastic Inc.

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• Are you some kind of mutant human? Like a fire user? And I use mutant as a compliment, you know. I wouldn’t think less of you.

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking, Fire, Mutants

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.253, Penguin

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• Having people be impressed with a house is not a compliment. You don't want them to say, 'What a place!' You want them to sit down and enjoy it.

  Robert Denning

  People, House, Want

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• I love making people uncomfortable, and when people say, 'I cringed watching [that] scene,' that's the biggest compliment you can give me.

  Allison Williams

  Love, People, Giving

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• Don't waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself. Remember compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

  Mary Schmich

  Race, Long, Advice

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.32, Agate Digital

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• The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.

  Evel Knievel

  Men, Gold, Pay

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