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If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.
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Walter Williams
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Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.
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Bill Walsh
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Anytime anybody impersonates you, it's a great compliment.
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Robert Wagner
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I can live for two months on a good compliment.
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Mark Twain
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I really lack the words to compliment myself today.
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Alberto Tomba
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We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.
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Margaret Thatcher
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It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment.
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J. Straczynski
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To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.
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Sidney Poitier
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I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
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Titus Plautus
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The biggest compliment to me is that guys really approach me and they have a connection with me, so there must be something I'm doing that is authentic, otherwise they wouldn't connect with me so strongly. It's a real compliment.
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Jeremy Piven
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I don't believe in trouble. Because I think that trouble is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I've been known to be called trouble, which I think is quite a compliment. But I suppose, thinking about it, that my best and worst trouble has always had something to do with a man.
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Beth Orton
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Players very widely disagree with me about what's hard and what's easy. and in a way, 'I won, but it was a fight' is the best compliment a game can receive.
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Graham Nelson
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Everybody likes a compliment.
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Abraham Lincoln
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He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself!
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Alvin Lee
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When I got finished, Gershwin paid me the ultimate compliment. He said, 'Boy, even I couldn't do that.'
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Burton Lane
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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
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Victor Hugo
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For me, it's a compliment to be compared with Marilyn, the unforgettable actress, the most beautiful one of all. But, curves aside, we have very little in common.
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Eva Herzigova
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The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing.
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Tom Hall
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Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.
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Calista Flockhart
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Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.
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William Feather
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No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
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George Eliot
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I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way.
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Dave Edmunds
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As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'
Author:
Clarence Clemons
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The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
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Lord Chesterfield
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Our two biggest rivals had adjusted their whole season to this one aim of beating us. Of course, it is a big compliment that they were so motivated to stop us but it was very tough to face two matches like that so close together. Suddenly three trophies are down to one.
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Dennis Bergkamp
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I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment.
Author:
Roy Ayers
