Compliment Quotes - Page 24

• For the film to 'earn' the right to be criticized on a scientific level is a high compliment indeed.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Levels

  "Oscar Whisper Campaigns: The Slurs Against '12 Years,' 'Captain Phillips,' 'Gravity' and 'The Butler'" by Scott Feinberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 23, 2013.

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• Love can make the difference-love generously given in childhood and reaching through the awkward years of youth . . . and encouragement that is quick to compliment and slow to criticize.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Encouragement, Years, Differences

  "Bring Up a Child in the Way He Should Go". General Conference, www.lds.org. October 1993.

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• Everybody likes compliment.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Likes

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• [Christians] practiced moderation and chastity in marriage, for example, and Galen was puzzled at how they were able to do so. His comments are a kind of back-handed compliment, I suppose.

  Larry Hurtado

  Christian, Example, Able

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Being called a 'bad citizen' is a compliment to a novelist, at least to my mind. That's exactly what we ought to do.

  Don DeLillo

  Mind, Novelists, Citizens

  "Don DeLillo and the Novelist as Bad Citizen" by Jon Michaud, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 2011.

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• The greatest compliment of the book [One Thousand Gifts]? Maybe the Muslim man in Iraq who was given the book and came to a saving knowledge of Jesus, wanted to live his life in thanks to God?

  Ann Voskamp

  Jesus, Book, Men

  Source: www.churchleaders.com

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• Really, the greatest compliments about a book [One Thousand Gifts] are never about the book, or the author of the book, but about the reader and God and how the pages helped them connect at a deeper level.

  Ann Voskamp

  Book, Levels, Pages

  Source: www.churchleaders.com

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• I told my sons to remember to always thank people for compliments.

  Hrithik Roshan

  Son, People, Remember

  Source: asianlite.com

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• I find Donald Trump to be incredibly gracious, energetic, I mean the greatest compliment you can get from Donald Trump is not hey, that's brilliant or that was really smart or great job. It's you're really high energy.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Jobs, Smart, Mean

  Source: tech.fortune.cnn.com

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• When reviewers take the trouble to compliment a writer on her style, it is usually because she has made it easy for them to slide from one sentence to another like an otter down a slope.

  William H. Gass

  Otters, Style, Slides

  Source: theuntranslated.wordpress.com

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• I am a firm believer in playing the type of music that compliments the song the best. If it's a folk song make it sound like one. If it's a rock song make it sound like one, if it's a rap song take it off the record.

  William Clark Green

  Song, Rap, Rocks

  Source: countrymusicrocks.net

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• Being compared to that man [Michael Jordan], who has accomplished so much in his lifetime and is known as one of the greatest ever, is an amazing compliment, but I still want to be looked at as an individual and have my own lane and my own career and looked at as "That's Mike." "That' s Michael B."

  Michael B. Jordan

  Men, Careers, Jordan

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• A compliment makes someone feel good about themselves. A catcall is harassment.

  Laura Bates

  Feel Good, Harassment, Feels

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• If your compliments are making women feel uncomfortable, scared, anxious, annoyed or harassed, you're probably not doing them right.

  Laura Bates

  Annoyed, Scared, Anxious

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• People will download the music for free and they'll pay for it if they want to give you a compliment. They don't have to pay for it. And the only way the artist can make money was by touring 'cause the record label didn't take that money. Unfortunately now, cause the record company's not making money from the downloads, now they want to take money away from everything.

  Joss Stone

  Artist, People, Giving

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• I think people tend to believe that women who are successful are probably neglecting their children, possibly a bit hard-nosed and that they don't really support other women very much - that they're men-haters and ball-breakers. I've certainly been on the receiving end of those 'compliments' for most of my career. 

  Jo Brand

  Children, Believe, Successful

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• In my writing I wanted to be liked for writing really unlikeable stuff. There were books that people, particularly women, hated so much. They said, "I threw it against the wall!" Which, in my opinion, was a compliment. Because it's very hard to get somebody to throw something.

  Tama Janowitz

  Wall, Book, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The West didn't see our real situation, and we were blinded by the compliments coming from the Europeans and Americans.

  Irakli Okruashvili

  Real, West, Situation

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I take it as a real compliment that people believe that I can in some ways mine the disenfranchised, the marginalized, the somewhat off-center - psychologically speaking - people in our society, and bring a real humanity to them, and make people see what would otherwise be a person that you would hate. Find a reason to love them and see the world from their point of view.

  Walton Goggins

  Hate, Real, Believe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Jim Rich is many different things but he has a great combination of a kind of old school tabloid reporter and editor's sense for what's a great story, but he's also incredibly passionate about social justice. I think Shaun King called him the most woke editor in American, if that's a compliment.

  Lydia Polgreen

  Old School, Thinking, Justice

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I remember a prominent conservative media figure, talking to him about prominent liberal media figures that he knew, that he liked. And I questioned him. "How can you trust these people? I mean, these are..." "No, no! They're good guys. In fact, one of them likes you, says you're not a hater." And I was supposed to be thrilled to hear this!I was supposed to be mollified that some liberal media figure had just pronounced I was okay because, after he had listened to me, he had determined I wasn't a hater. I did not take that as a compliment, and I got kind of mad.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, People, Mad

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• An Italian piazza was my vision - a place where people would come and meet, see an exhibition, browse through books, have a drink, eat, rest, shop. Even today, the best compliment is when someone tells me that they were having a difficult day, and when they came here, they felt better.

  Carla Sozzani

  Book, Italian, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I did get tired of hearing that criticism years ago. That is not a compliment. Being labeled a "beach read" is a put-down. So, I did deliberately set out to write a book, Camino Island, that would be very entertaining and compulsively readable and we published it on June 6 in time for summer vacation, hoping that people would buy it and take it to the beach.

  John Grisham

  Summer, Beach, Book

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Hillary Clinton, at the end of the debate, what you want viewers to say, yes, she's smart, she's knowledgeable, but she's not a bad egg, you know? Not a bad egg is a pretty high compliment in American politics, given the toxic atmosphere in which we currently dwell.

  Mark Shields

  Smart, Atmosphere, Debate

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think Rowdy Gaines actually said something like: Katie Ledecky doesn't swim like a man. She swims like Katie Ledecky.And that was a good comment. I swim the way I swim. And I take it as a compliment when somebody says I swim like a man, because, as you said, my stroke is kind of taken after what some of the male freestylers have done. But I'm just trying to go as fast as I can go.

  Katie Ledecky

  Taken, Thinking, Men

  Source: www.pbs.org

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