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When I was in primary school I was in a special needs group, which is the polite way of saying the dopey kids.
Balanced is probably what I am, although that's just a polite way to say that you don't do anything very well.
I'm brash and abrasive but that's because I've noticed when people are nice and polite they never get anywhere.
We must stop being polite and behaved and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority.
My parents were very strict about manners and being polite to others. I brought my own children up that way, too.
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
I want someone honest, someone who's very sweet to my family and friends, and polite to the other people around me.
The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
I didn't see deep emotion from my parents. It was all very polite and very surface. I never knew how anybody was feeling.
A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.
It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.
Patience can be a good thing - but not necessarily. Sometimes it's not so bad to be impatient. I'm a little bit too polite.
Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
I'll always remember Vinod Khanna as a thorough gentleman, cultured, polite, who knew how to conduct himself with the ladies.
Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank.
I am a very frank person and that's how I hope to remain. I don't like to pretend to be polite. What you see is what you get.
Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it.
We pretend that no one's a racist anymore, but it's easier to talk about pornography in polite company than racial integration
With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.
There's this whole feeling that women should be small and quiet and polite, and I don't think that's really gotten us anywhere.
I've never had a meth habit, I don't walk around naked, and unless I'm actively provoked, I'm generally polite and well-spoken.
People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.
It's not polite to refuse to dress for a parly. It's an insult to your hostess. After all, correct dress is a part of good manners.
You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.
The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters.
It is not very polite to interrupt a person, of course, but sometimes if the person is very unpleasant you can hardly stop yourself.
I ain't saying you're a liar, because that wouldn't be polite. But I'll tell you this, ma'am. If I loved liars, I'd hug you to death.
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.
When thanksgiving is filled with true meaning and is not just the formality of a polite 'thank you,' it is the recognition of dependence.
Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?
Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them.
You find a lot out about people when they're blowing up, as we say, gasping for air, and if they can still hold conversations and be polite.
I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come here uninvited.'
It was a nice experience to shoot on the streets of New York. Tourists are highly respected there and people are highly disciplined and polite.
I'm teaching my daughters to be ladies by showing them how to dress appropriately when they leave the house, and how to be thoughtful and polite.
Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.
People in Chicago are so cool! They are different; they're friendly and just genuinely happy. Everyone's so polite and sweet. They even look cool.
I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
Yes, well, on stage I'm a different person, very aggressive, very tense. That's not me because I'm humble and polite, unless someone is rude to me.
My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it's what the guys like. Actually, they like a raunchy girl once in a while.
Emily Post says that talking about oneself isn't very polite.' 'I'm sure Miss Post is perfectly correct, but that doesn't seem to stop the rest of us.
Being polite and grateful will make people more inclined to help you. And if people are willing to help you, you may accidentally get something you want.
Texas, to be respected, must be polite. Santa Anna, living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna, dead, would just be another dead Mexican.
Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.
You can't compare a Super Bowl crowd, which tends to be more polite and a little more neutral to that. The Super Bowl only has 7,000 to 8,000 fans for each team.
A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?
Do what comes into your life and do it well... Be polite without groveling. If you are ever afraid of anything, do not deny it, but behave as if you feared nothing.