Being Nice Quotes - Page 12

• It must be nice to be so strong and to think it's because you're so good, that you live right and eat right, so you deserve your health and happiness. But there is such a thing as luck, and there's more bad luck than good in this world.

  Laura Lippman

  Strong, Nice, Thinking

  Laura Lippman (2015). “Baltimore Blues”, p.146, Faber & Faber

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• I think that fans are always looking for someone to blame. Wouldn't it be nice if they looked in the mirror?

  Michael Lewis

  Nice, Thinking, Mirrors

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• I believe God put that itchy spot on our backs just exactly where we can't reach it in order to encourage us be nice to each other.

  Teresa Nielsen Hayden

  Nice, Believe, Order

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• The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters.

  Rachel Blanchard

  Brother, Children, Nice

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of the last century or so and watching them collaborate: 'OK, Twain, you do the dialogue and hand off to Faulkner. He'll do the interior monologue. Hemingway will edit - no, don't make that face, you know you overwrite. And be nice to Cheever. He's young, but he's got a good ear. Wharton and Cather can't play - they're girls.'

  Anna Quindlen

  Basketball, Girl, Sports

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• I’ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: “Dad, I always told you I’d come back and get my degree.” I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor. I’ll be changing my job next year … and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.

  Bill Gates

  Graduation, Jobs, Dad

  Bill Gates' Commencement Address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.harvard.edu. June 7, 2007.

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• It's nice to know that what you're doing is being read and enjoyed by a good deal of people.

  Robert Kirkman

  Nice, People, Deals

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• But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing and nice.

  Joel Hodgson

  Nice, Thinking, People

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• Mick has expressed an interest in coming to the gallery tonight because he's seen me behaving myself lately. He is being much more supportive, which is nice.

  Ronnie Wood

  Nice, Supportive, Tonight

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• It's one of those things; you just get a very nice stroke from being included in the next thing.

  Andreas Katsulas

  Nice, Next, Strokes

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• Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be honest.

  Anna Quindlen

  Friendship, Real, Nice

  Anna Quindlen (2012). “Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life”, p.32, Random House

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• I don't want to be nice. Nice girls can only get what they're offered.

  Azealia Banks

  Girl, Nice, Want

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• I didn't know that being in a relationship meant you had to be nice. I thought it meant you had to hack away at the other person until they were beaten down and then were too afraid to leave.

  Roseanne Barr

  Nice, Down And, Persons

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• Steve Martin is one of the most intelligent, well-read human beings that I've ever come across. He is equally as funny off screen as he is on. But he also has a very intellectual side, and he's a really nice human being. We actually become good friends.

  Anthony LaPaglia

  Nice, Good Friend, Intelligent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For me now, it's about what you would write and what you wouldn't write, and that's how I select what I am going to do. It can be quite nice being brought a concept by a studio for me to work on.

  Neil Jordan

  Nice, Writing, Select

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• I've enjoyed it, I have seen it once at the premiere in London and it was very nice to be invited there. But I do want to see it again now. I want to sit and watch it as a fan rather than being there at the premiere with all the lights and such.

  Jeremy Bulloch

  Nice, Light, Fans

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• It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it.

  Garth Ennis

  Nice, Book, Writing

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• Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.

  Rajneesh

  Nice, Ignorance, Being Sad

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• I think we've been through a lot this season and it will be nice to move on. It's one step at a time though. The focus of our hockey club was great. We really stuck to our game plan and didn't get too high or too low and we definitely didn't get over excited.

  Martin Brodeur

  Nice, Moving, Hockey

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• You can weaponize nice... Being nice can make you be a little underestimated.

  Erin McKean

  Nice, Littles, Underestimated

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• For years, I'd say yes to almost everything, trying to be nice and generous. Feeling obliged to be of service to the world. Maybe also a fear of being forgotten if I don't. But I paid the ultimate price in doing that, because for all those years, I got almost no work done! Some famous authors have written about this: that if they said yes to every request, then they'd never have time to write another book again.

  Derek Sivers

  Nice, Book, Writing

  "Brave Interview: Derek Sivers". Interview with Margie Warrell, www.business2community.com. July 5, 2015.

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• People are surprised that I'm nice and it helps me out a little bit; it's easy to be nice when everyone thinks you're going to be a jerk but if people think you're a nice guy then it's tough because it's what they expect.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Nice, Thinking, People

  "411mania Interviews: Anthony Jeselnik". Interview with Al Norton, 411mania.com. April 23, 2013.

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• The confidence and security of a people can be measured by their attitude toward laxatives. At the high noon of the British sun, soldiers in far-flung outposts of the Empire doctored themselves with "a spoonful o' gunpowder in a cuppa 'ot tea." Purveyors and users of harsh laxatives were not afraid of being thought mean and unfriendly just because their laxatives were. But in America, the need to be nice is so consuming that nobody would dare take a laxative that makes you run up the stairs two at a time, pushing others aside and yelling, "Get out of the way!

  Florence King

  Running, Attitude, Nice

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• Always be nice to everyone in the firm on the way up. You never know who you may meet on the way down.

  Jilly Cooper

  Work, Nice, Office

  Jilly Cooper (2012). “How To Survive From Nine To Five”, p.34, Random House

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• Women are socialized to be nice, to be docile. I call it 'shrink to fit': Shrink yourself to fit what others expect of you.

  Meg Ryan

  Nice, Women, Fit

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