Polite Quotes - Page 12

• A man needs to be polite, not just to me but to everyone. I watch that. How does he treat the waiter? How does he treat the coat-check girl? How does he treat the driver?

  Adriana Lima

  Girl, Men, Coats

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• There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does, it's just one of those polite things where you don't question their belief in ghosts. You just go, 'Oh, yeah, okay.' It's amazing to be able to have conversations like that.

  Alice Englert

  Able, Doe, Belief

  "Alice Englert Talks BEAUTIFUL CREATURES, Getting the Southern Accent Right, and TWILIGHT Comparisons". Press conference, collider.com. February 14, 2013.

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• There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get to connect with women I've never met before.

  Jessica Chastain

  Acting, Connections, Shy

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

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• When asked her view of cosmetic surgery, Carmen Dell'Orefice replies, '”That's a very polite way of asking me, I'm sure, ‘Have you had a facelift?' Well, if you had the ceiling falling down in your living room, would you not go and have a repair?

  Carmen Dell'Orefice

  Fall, Views, Ceilings

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• How is this any different than the big boat argument of people when it came to African-Americans after the Civil War, decided, 'Put them on a boat and send them back where they came from?' You know, he says it in polite language, but that's what Romney's been saying, 'Get home where you came from, start all over again.'

  Chris Matthews

  War, Home, People

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• Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Writing, Safe, Compulsion

  Letter declining Pulitzer Prize in fiction (1926)

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• Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

  Jonathan Swift

  Father, Good Woman, Cows

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• 'Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.

  Jonathan Swift

  Father, Conversation, Polite Conversation

  "Parodies, Hoaxes, Mock Treatises: Polite Conversation, Directions to Servants and Other Works".

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• I think I've realized that business and being polite [don't] match. You can be fair, but me being polite was not me being fair to myself.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Dream, Thinking, Fairs

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• Be polite to all, friendly to none. Be professional. Be ready to kill everyone and everything.

  Janet Morris

  Loyalty, Discipline, Risk

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.127, Paradise Publishing

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• Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.

  Walter Isaacson

  Leader, Care, Take Care

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.565, Simon and Schuster

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• Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

  Matthew Henry

  Learning, Men, Liberal Education

  Matthew Henry, J.B Williams (1828). “Exposition of the Old and New Testament”, p.788

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• In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyones very polite and controls their feelings.

  Noomi Rapace

  Perfect, Feelings, Sweden

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• I did several shows with Jimi Hendrix, that's when I got to know him better, I knew of him, I met him [when he was playing] with Little Richard... And he was kind of quiet, shy, he didn't open up too much, but there were questions as we all ask each other. You know, "how do you do this" and "why do you do that..." We had very small discussions on things like that. And he was very polite, I thought [he was] a very nice guy.

  B. B. King

  Music, Nice, Guy

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• Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?

  Jeff Goodell

  Environmental, Climate, Global Warming

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• Everyone Is God speaking. Why not be polite and Listen to Him?

  Hafez

  Integrity, Listening, Why Not

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• I'm big on my kids being conventionally polite, and it works really well for them.

  Mayim Bialik

  Kids, Bigs, Wells

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

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• My fans are pretty normal, they are always really nice and polite, and they don't interrupt my meals.

  Drew Carey

  Nice, Fans, Meals

  Interview with Mary Buckheit, proxy.espn.com. September 9, 2002.

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• Men have, for the most part, done with lamenting their lost faith. Sentimental tears over the happy, simple Christendom of their fathers are a thing of the past. They are proclaiming now their contempt for Christ's character, and their disgust at the very name of love. Scorn and hatred, difference and division, must be more than ever our lot, if we would be the followers of Christ in these days. Conventional religion and polite unbelief are gone forever.

  Neville Figgis

  Love, Father, Character

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• The three C's of leadership are Consideration,Caring,and Courtesy.Be polite to everyone.

  Brian Tracy

  Leadership, Caring, Three

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• Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Art, Years, Letters

  Letter declining Pulitzer Prize in fiction (1926)

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• The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be.

  Eric Clapton

  Want, Being Polite

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• I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Underdog, Valuable, Persons

  Interview with Kay Bonetti, www.english.illinois.edu.

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• And I think because there is an essence of me that cares about other people and what other people think then that then makes me seem very sweet and polite.

  Renee O'Connor

  Sweet, Thinking, Essence

  "Renee O’Connor Exclusive Interview". The Star Scoop Interview, www.thestarscoop.com. March 30, 2005.

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• Diversity...is not casual liberal tolerance of anything not yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the sometimes painful awareness that other people, other races, other voices, other habits of mind have as much integrity of being, as much claim on the world as you do... And I urge you, amid all the differences present to the eye and mind, to reach out to create the bond that...will protect us all. We are all meant to be here together.

  William Merritt Chase

  Integrity, Eye, Race

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