Too Nice Quotes - Page 2

• I've never had the Lord say, 'Jesse, I think that car is a little bit too nice.' I've had vehicles and the Lord said, 'Would you please go park that at your house. Don't put that in front of my house. I don't want people to think that I'm a poor God.'

  Jesse Duplantis

  Nice, Thinking, Car

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• When I was in college, I thought about becoming an attorney. But I wasn't smart enough; I hate being cooped up indoors; and I'm too nice a guy.

  Arnold Palmer

  Hate, Nice, Smart

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• With The Help, I knew folks involved in the project peripherally. I wanted to audition for Hilly Holbrook and part of the initial feedback was: "No, Bryce is too nice." That's part of the reason why I really love auditions as well - you get to try out a character and try out different versions of a character.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Nice, Character, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I remember people saying to us, "You're too nice. Hollywood is going to eat you up and spit you out." I never listened to them.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Nice, People, Hollywood

  "Jimmy Fallon Interviews Jimmy Fallon". Interview with Eric Spitznagel and Peter Yang, www.menshealth.com. December 23, 2014.

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• Why not say it? I'm bursting out of my cocoon. It was all too nice in the past - it never knocked anyone out. But last year... my first opening night at the Met - I looked out and heard all that cheering... for me... And I loved it.

  Benita Valente

  Art, Cheer, Nice

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• Sometimes I think all I want to find is a mean guy and make him be nice to me. Or maybe a nice guy who's a little bit mean to me. But they're usually too nice too soon or too mean too long.

  Carrie Fisher

  Nice, Mean, Thinking

  Carrie Fisher (2011). “Postcards From the Edge”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• The Art Magicke has rules. It means I have to teach you all my tricks. All the substitutions, the replications, the illusions. How to read minds and palms and leaves. How to disappear and reappear. "How to saw people in half?" "That too." "Nice.

  Catherine Fisher

  Art, Nice, Mean

  Catherine Fisher (2010). “Sapphique”, p.184, Penguin

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• If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Nice, Voice, Flow

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• I have a very hard time with confrontation in my own life, and I end up being way too nice.

  Missi Pyle

  Nice, Hard Times, Way

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• I do get the sense sometimes that if I draw things too nice, maybe I won't be indie-rock enough anymore.

  Bryan Lee O'Malley

  Nice, Rocks, Indie Rock

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have nothing against Canada. I think that Canadians might know the secret to all existence, but to us it just comes off as timid and kind and too nice, and it strikes us as lacking edge. Unless you are hijacking someone and going on a reality show with your eight kids and wearing a velour pink pantsuit, then you have no edge to us.

  Sloane Crosley

  Nice, Kids, Reality

  "Sloane Crosley Adjusts to the Writerly Life". Interview with Shane Ferro, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 22, 2011.

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• With a body like he has, I want him to be a bully. But he is too nice - he is perfect son-in-law material, but I don't want a team of son-in-laws.

  Graeme Souness

  Soccer, Football, Nice

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• Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest manly principle will daily accumulate. We are not too nicely to scrutinize motives as long as action is irreproachable. It is enough (and for a worthy man perhaps too much) to deal out its infamy to convicted guilt and declared apostasy.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Long, Guilt

  Edmund Burke (2008). “The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: On Conciliation with America; Security of the Independence of Parliament; on Mr. Fox's East India”, p.242, Cosimo, Inc.

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• NELL. Because that's what an employer is going to have doubts about with a lady as I needn't tell you, whether she's got the guts to push through to a closing situation. They think we're too nice. They think we listen to the buyer's doubts. They think we consider his needs and his feelings.

  Caryl Churchill

  Nice, Thinking, Feelings

  Caryl Churchill (2013). “Top Girls”, p.68, A&C Black

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• Don't remember me as too nice or beautiful or funny, because then you'll be disappointed.

  Celia Johnson

  Beautiful, Nice, Remember

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