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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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The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down.
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Ethel Waters
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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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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
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Voltaire
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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
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Marquis Vauvenargues
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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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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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Henry Thoreau
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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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In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.
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Laurence Sterne
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And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.
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Jason Statham
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They showed this one beautiful picture of me recently and they had all the things that I had done. I thought it was a great compliment for everybody to think I've had plastic surgery.
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Cybill Shepherd
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When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.
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Helen Rowland
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Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.
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Richard Rorty
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Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.
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Samuel Richardson
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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Jackson Pollock
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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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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.
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Ryan Phillippe
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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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Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.
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Peggy Noonan
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I want to compliment The Heritage Foundation for its work on behalf of a strong national defense.
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Don Nickles
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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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To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
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George MacDonald
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I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.
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Clare Luce
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The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
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Walter Lippmann
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Everybody likes a compliment.
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Abraham Lincoln
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Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I'm on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports, but also want to be a model like me and I think that's great.
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Lisa Leslie
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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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As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.
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Matt LeBlanc
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Well, I think every now and again, some people deserve to get their butts chewed. Every now and again some people deserve a pat on the back. What I try and do is compliment folk who deserve a compliment, and chew folks out who deserve to be chewed out.
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Judge Lane
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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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By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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Victor Hugo
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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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I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.
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Mitch Hedberg
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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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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
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Wayne Gretzky
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If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!
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Carlisle Floyd
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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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Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.
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Henry Fielding
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The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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Henry Fielding
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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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I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive.
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Joseph Epstein
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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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The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment.
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Julia Dreyfus
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A girl's got to do what she's got to do to make somebody pay her a compliment. If that means moaning 'til the cows come home, then so be it.
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Cat Deeley
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
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Clarence Darrow
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I think it's his perception of knowing how to make a record build, keeping the integrity of the song in the music and really adding a lot of musical elements to compliment my voice and to compliment the song.
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Deborah Cox
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The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.
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Alistair Cooke
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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.'
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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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I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.
Author:
Nick Cave
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn't much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen.
Author:
Lara Boyle
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So when they come around and say they want to do our stuff in America, it's compliment really.
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Sean Booth
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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
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There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.
Author:
Minna Antrim
