Flattered Quotes - Page 7

• There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is in our hometown and we can tell him.

  Andy Rooney

  People, Questions And Answers, Hometown

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• I'm flattered that women think that I'm sexy.

  Laz Alonso

  Sexy, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm flattered if any movie role and my name are mentioned in the same sentence, because there haven't been a ton of them.

  Stephen Amell

  Names, Roles, Sentences

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• I just feel so flattered, because the cosplayers really make sure every detail is there. I don't think I've ever cosplayed a character before, but if I were to, I'd probably go as a Klingon from 'Star Trek.

  Karen Gillan

  Stars, Character, Thinking

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• I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters.

  Toby Jones

  Character, Proud, Feels

  "Toby Jones on playing Alfred Hitchcock and improvising with Danny McBride". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2012.

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• I'm always flattered and honored when people cover my music or sing my songs, no matter where it is.

  Amos Lee

  Song, People, Matter

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• I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry.

  Suzi Quatro

  Doors, Males, Female

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• I'm very flattered, but I don't think I'm the sexiest man on the planet.

  Douglas Wilson

  Men, Thinking, Planets

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• People see my impressions as a great skill and I am flattered, but there are things I can't do that everyone else can. I can do funny voices and funny faces but I can't drive.

  Matt Lucas

  Skills, Voice, People

  "Matt Lucas says he can never learn to drive because he would end up killing himself". www.mirror.co.uk. July 21, 2011.

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• I had highfalutin ideas about being a serious actress when I was 16, 17, and first signed at Universal. I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.

  Piper Laurie

  Ideas, Stuff, Paid

  "Piper Laurie White Christmas" by Edvins Beitiks, www.sfgate.com. December 17, 1998.

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• I never know why shows succeed or don't succeed, which is why I look at it as, 'I'll do the best work that I can', and if the fans and people respond then I'm always really flattered and honored, and if they don't then I'll try and do something next time that they like better. But I have no idea what makes a hit show, I really don't.

  Poppy Montgomery

  Ideas, People, Trying

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• Flattery is so necessary to us that we flatter one another just to be flattered in return.

  Marjorie Bowen

  Return, Flattery

  Marjorie Bowen (1938). “World's Wonder and Other Essays”

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• If you sat down and you wrote a script, you may write something that's way beyond what you've ever seen me do, but if you thought of me to do it, I would be flattered to be asked to do something other than be wise.

  Morgan Freeman

  Wise, Writing, Would Be

  "Morgan Freeman Talks OBLIVION, Working with Tom Cruise, Being Drawn to Sci-Fi and Technology, Shooting a Dual .50 Caliber Machine Gun and More". collider.com. April 16, 2013.

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• Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Teamwork, Men, Deals

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• So I'm one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on 'The Simpsons,' which I'm very flattered by.

  Al Yankovic

  Performances, Repeats

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

  William Blake

  Bible, Spiritual, Art

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• This is how they justify not wanting to strive for self-improvement. It's how they explain their continued inaction. It's just an excuse. There are plenty of video clips on the Internet showing what I really look like. Some people even spread rumors about me and retouch my pictures to hurt me. But I don't take them seriously. I'm even flattered! It's what success is like. I'm happy I seem unreal to them, it means I'm doing a good job.

  Valeria Lukyanova

  Hurt, Jobs, Mean

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• I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven't had a base hit since then.

  Richie Ashburn

  Baseball, Believe, Thinking

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• When someone picks up one of my songs and records it, I'm a flattered man, it's a blessing to me

  Smokey Robinson

  Song, Blessing, Men

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• I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.

  Jilly Cooper

  Book, Writing, Firefighter

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• I don’t know whether to feel flattered or hunted.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Feels, Hunted, Knows

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.16, A&C Black

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• That the win came only days after the Ryder Cup announcement was not a coincidence. Being a captain's pick is a huge honor, and I was very flattered by that, ... but once the Ryder Cup race was over at the PGA, I felt as if there was a burden lifted and I was able to focus on what was at hand this week.

  Stewart Cink

  Winning, Race, Hands

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• No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Fire, Flattery

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.209

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• Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his pen, those who sat round him intreated and implored; and self-love did not suffer him to suspect that they went away and laughed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Moving, Self, Suffering

  Samuel Johnson (1800). “Lives”, p.531

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• They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin; The thing the which is flattered, but a spark To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Blow, Glowing

  William Shakespeare (2004). “Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.11, Sparklesoup LLC

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