Being Nice Quotes - Page 8

• Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.

  Joy Baluch

  Nice, Lying, Government

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• She was plain and far from skinny or petite. As for parties...she'd rather be alone in a corner somewhere reading. She hated being nice to people she didn't like because her father wanted contributions. She hated being fake. All she wanted was to be herself.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Father, Nice, Party

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Unleash The Night”, p.185, Hachette UK

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• I have discovered there are only a handful of good ideas in the whole world. You already know them. You have heard them your entire life. Here are some of the main keys to being more successful: Take personal responsibility. Things change, so be flexible. Work smart and work hard. Serve others well. Be nice to others. Be optimistic. Have goals; want something big for yourself. Stay focused. Keep learning. Become excellent at what you do. Trust your gut. When in doubt, take action. Earn all you can. Save all you can. Give all you can. Enjoy all you've got. Above all keep it simple.

  Larry Winget

  Nice, Smart, Hard Work

  Larry Winget (2007). “It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault”, p.19, Penguin

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• Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys

  Max von Sydow

  Nice, People, Guy

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• In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have OK teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already

  John Corbett

  Jobs, Nice, Successful

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• It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Nice, Nerves, Enough

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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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• Before Simon could answer, he heard the sound of the front door opening. He looked daggers at Jace. "That's my roommate. Kyle. Be nice." Jace smiled charmingly. "I'm always nice.

  Cassandra Clare

  Nice, Doors, Sound

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1510, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Good Lord, I don't know what 'rights' a man has! And I don't know the solution of boredom. If I did, I'd be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull, as ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Fun, Nice, Believe

  Sinclair Lewis (2015). “Babbitt”, p.62, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• My mother taught me to be nice to everybody. And she said something before I left home. She said, 'I want you to always remember that the person you are in this world is a reflection of the job I did as a mother.'

  Jason Segel

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

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• Appeasement, said Winston Churchill, consists of being nice to a crocodile in the hope that he will eat you last. At the moment, the biggest crocodile in the world is Microsoft, and everybody is busy sucking up to it.

  John Naughton

  Funny, Nice, Humor

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• It is so much easier to be nice, to be respectful, to put yourself in your customers' shoes and try to understand how you might help them before they ask for help, than it is to try to mend a broken customer relationship.

  Mark Cuban

  Business, Nice, Educational

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• Cause you know, life is what we make it and a chance is like a picture, it'd be nice if you just take it.

  Drake

  Life, Nice, Humble

  "Song: "Un-Thinkable (I'm Ready)"". May 28, 2010.

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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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• It'll be nice not to have to use my fake IDs anymore.

  Phil Mickelson

  Fake People, Nice, Use

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• Why can't we just be nice? It's like, we grow up, and then we get right back into high school.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Life, Growing Up, Nice

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• It is important to be nice. But sometimes niceness can be misconstrued as weak. Should we be nice to everybody? Should we be nice only when others are nice to us? Here are some interesting views about being nice. Read these nice quotes and turn on your niceness.

  Dave Barry

  Nice, Views, Interesting

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• You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion.

  Mort Walker

  Nice, Passion, Taught

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