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I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.
When people see me in something and say, 'That's just you - that's not acting,' it's the best compliment I can get.
The biggest compliment I get is that I don't sound like anybody else. I think I value that as the highest compliment.
Amaal is a music composer, and I am singer, so I think we compliment each other rather than competing with each other.
One critic called me nothing but a blues singer, as though that was a slight. That is the highest compliment there is.
The biggest compliment I get is when someone tells me, 'You're so real.' Even if my journey isn't exactly like theirs.
If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.
The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment.
If you won't talk about yourself, at least compliment the audience. Just keep turning it back around, all right. Gush.
There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.
The West didn't see our real situation, and we were blinded by the compliments coming from the Europeans and Americans.
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
I think the biggest compliment an actor can have is if people forget who they're watching and get lost in the character.
I think the fact that Rajamouli sir wrote the character of 'Baahubali' for me has been the biggest compliment in itself.
You know the old saying kill him with kindness that's the way you shut me up. With a compliment, I have nothing to prove.
Don't compliment me in the middle of an argument. It won't make me stammer or blush, and it just makes you look desperate.
The greatest compliment a coach can get from another coach around the league is, 'Hey, your guys play hard. They're tough.'
I dislike the concept of 'chic' being the highest compliment for a human being. I'd rather someone be nice than to be chic.
If we're compared to Metallica, the greatest metal band in the world, I think that's actually a pretty damn good compliment.
If you're going to compare me to somebody and it's going to be Carrie Underwood, I will absolutely take that as a compliment.
If people really want to know whether I am a woman or transsexual, I take it as a compliment. It means I'm doing my job well.
Manchester United are a great club, and being associated with them is a great compliment for me, but Atletico are also great.
Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.
I have no time for women who don't support other women. It's the ultimate compliment when a woman tells you that you look good.
Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.
Compliment others on the virtues they have; and they're not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they don't have.
A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.
The greatest compliment is I am accused of being a Dem leftie and a Republican righty. I am a pragmatist. I call it as I see it.
I always enjoy watching Republicans compliment Bill Clinton now, because at the time, I'm sure he didn't feel a lot of the love.
Calling a show a 'guilty pleasure' is like saying 'I'm embarrassed to say I watch it but I can't stop.' That's not a compliment.
It's a big compliment that so many people want to see me. For them, it's all about football. That's what they remember about me.
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.
When grace happens, we receive not a nice compliment from God but a new heart. Give your heart to Christ, and he returns the favor.
The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.
If your compliments are making women feel uncomfortable, scared, anxious, annoyed or harassed, you're probably not doing them right.
Kurt Vonnegut said, 'The best of Bob and Ray is virtually indistinguishable from the worst.' I'm sure he meant that as a compliment.
My love for you is immeasurable, my respect for you immense. You're ageless, timeless, lace and fineness, you're beauty and elegance.
So it's the greatest compliment in the world when people want to hear you sing. That means it feels good to them, so I keep doing it.
When people say to me, 'You're like the Anna Kournikova who wins,' I definitely take it as a compliment, because she's quite gorgeous.
Someone very important once told me, 'You can make almost everything look great.' That's the best compliment I have received till date.
A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.
People know my characters like Alice Morgan in 'Luther' or Alison Bailey from 'The Affair.' For me, that's a compliment, a kind of joy.
When people compliment my cooking, it's like somebody telling me that they like my music. And it's great to be known for something else.
It's a huge compliment that people continue to cast me in different types of roles believing in me and the fact that I can carry it off.
I smile every time I hear that I'm a fan favorite or a teenage hottie. It is a nice compliment, and the remarks from the fans are great.
I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.
Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud of.
When someone who loves and cares about me compliments me, I feel more glamorous than when the flashbulbs are going off on the red carpet.