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• At a wedding last week, my wife said: 'Isn't the bride beautiful ?' When I responded by saying, 'Yeah, but her blowjobs aren't half as good as yours', she got all pissed off. Women - they can't take a compliment!

  David Henry

  Beautiful, Wife, Pissed Off

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• LISP has jokingly been described as "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer." I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavour of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Intelligent, Thinking, Numbers

  "The Humble Programmer". Edsger Dijkstra's ACM Turing Award lecture, "Communications of the ACM", Volume 15, No. 10, www.cs.utexas.edu. October 1972.

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• Unjust criticism is usually disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealously and envy. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead log.

  Dale Carnegie

  Mean, Unjust Criticism, Envy

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• No matter where you go, poor people have the capacity to endure. Some people even compliment us on it, as if endurance is all we can achieve.

  Victor LaValle

  People, Endurance, Matter

  Victor LaValle (2011). “Big Machine”, p.54, Oldcastle Books

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• No compliment is ever sufficient and every insult, of course, is true.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Insult, Courses, Sufficient

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• I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.

  Josh Brolin

  Artist, Reality, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Everyone thinks they went to high school with me. I take it as a compliment that I look different in every role.

  Carrie Preston

  School, Thinking, Different

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

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• I know who I am supposed to be with. Im just waiting until the time is right. I know what i want. I want to be so sure of everything in my life and be so good on my own that someone just comes in to compliment it. I want somebody who is happy. I dont want to meet someone who needs me. I want someone who is good on his own.

  Amanda Bynes

  Who I Am, Waiting, Needs

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• I'm a huge fan of Mariah Carey. I admired her music for so long. It's hard to follow on her footstep. She's so successful. Mariah's Mariah. To be compared to her is a huge compliment.

  Jessica Simpson

  Successful, Long, Fans

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• The people who support me are so great! They all say such nice things that make me feel really great. I love it when people compliment me on the way I act, because it is not an easy thing, and there is so much criticism out there.

  Austin Butler

  Nice, People, Support

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

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• I appeared with many leading men. But working with Cary Grant was different from working with other actors. He was much more fun! I think we were a successful team because we enjoyed working together tremendously, and that pleasure must have shown through onto the screen. I will always remember two compliments he made me. He said I had perfect timing in comedy and that I was the sweetest smelling actress he ever worked with.

  Irene Dunne

  Fun, Team, Successful

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

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• Remind people who they are instead of just complimenting them on what they've done.

  Thomas Leonard

  Inspirational, People, Done

  Thomas J. Leonard (2007). “The 28 Laws of Attraction: Stop Chasing Success and Let It Chase You”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• The Three Cs, I told myself. When you're not Comfortable with it, it's not a Compliment, it's Creepy.

  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

  Creepy, Three, Comfortable

  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2012). “Alice in Charge”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.

  Harvey Mackay

  Compliments You, Funeral, Waiting

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• This sounds really lame, but I'm pretty proud of my feet. I've gotten so many compliments for having nice feet. If someone has a foot fetish, I'd have an in. I love foot rubs, too. I'll take one whenever I can.

  Torrie Wilson

  Nice, Feet, Sound

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Happiness is about being proud of who you are. Be a good friend, be a good daughter, be reliable, be willing to laugh when things get tough, compliment other girls, care about your job, believe in yourself, be vulnerable, tell the truth, apologize when needed, forgive people...

  Erin Foster

  Girl, Daughter, Jobs

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• When Steve Ballmer calls me wacko, I consider that a compliment.

  Scott McNealy

  Call Me

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• Finding your look isn't complicated if you go in without being frightened. Notice what people are complimenting you on. Experiment with new things once in a while, but have your tried-and-true pieces that work.

  Lauren Hutton

  People, Looks, Pieces

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• All of us , I believe , carry about in our heads places and landscapes we shall never forget because we have experienced such intensity of life there :places where, like the child that 'feels its life in every limb' in Wordsworth's poem'We are seven' ,our eyes have opened wider, and all our senses have somehow heightened.By way of returning the compliment , we accord these places that have given us such joy a special place in our memories and imaginations. They live on in us, wherever we may be, however far from them.

  Roger Deakin

  Memories, Children, Believe

  Roger Deakin (2008). “Notes from Walnut Tree Farm”, p.242, Penguin UK

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• Yves Saint Laurent gave women power, Chanel liberated them and when I joined Lanvin, I thought 'what do I bring to women? One day, I received an SMS from a friend in New York - she was in a taxi on the way to court to face her arsehole ex-husband, and she said to me 'Alber, I am wearing a Lanvin dress, and I feel so protected.' That to me was the biggest compliment I ever received. To have a 500 gram piece of silk make her feel protected - that made me very happy indeed.

  Alber Elbaz

  New York, Husband, One Day

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• Ozzie Newsome hit a home run by drafting Bernard Pierce. He is a great compliment to Ray Rice.

  Marshall Faulk

  Running, Home, Rays

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• I take compliments and I take constructive criticism. Not everyone loves you. It's the way you react as a footballer. I use it all to make me play better.

  Tim Cahill

  Love You, Play, Criticism

  "Shooting star: Tim Cahill". Interview with Dan Rookwood, www.smh.com.au. April 2, 2009.

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• Dancing, is, for the most part, attended with many amorous smiles, wanton compliments, unchaste kisses, scurrilous songs and sonnets, effeminate music, lust provoking attire, ridiculous love pranks, all which savor only of sensuality, of raging fleshly lusts. Therefore, it is wholly to be abandoned of all good Christians.

  William Prynne

  Christian, Song, Kissing

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• Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and planted it, so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn costs nothing, but it may spread into a prodigious timber.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Kindness, Pockets, Cost

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• In whatever sport of field of endeavor you are interested, you should do whatever is necessary to compliment your God-given talent with proper mental preparation so as to do "the best you can." The criterion should be to fully exploit your potential rather than to win at any cost. What more could anyone ever ask of you than to be the best you possibly can?

  Bob Cousy

  Leadership, Sports, Winning

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