Flattered Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• Children should learn to draw as they learn to write, and such a mystery should not be made of it. They should be encouraged, not flattered... then [later in life] double the effort is required to get the facility which might have been gained insensibly.

  William Morris Hunt

  Children, Writing, Later In Life

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• Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into the good graces of the flattered.

  Harold B. Lee

  Kindness, Mean, Indulge In

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• Rememberest the gods, and that they wish not to be flattered, but wish all reasonable beings to be made like themselves; and... rememberest that what does the work of a fig-tree is a fig-tree, and that what does the work of a dog is a dog, and that what does the work of a bee is a bee, and that what does the work of a man is a man.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Dog, Men, Tree

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.110, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Here lies one who neither flattered nor feared any flesh.

  John Knox

  Lying, Flesh

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• While I am flattered about the speculation of being enticed out of retirement, I'm happy with life as a bad golfer!

  Chipper Jones

  Retirement, Happy Life, Golfers

  Twitter post from Mar 11, 2013

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• We are flattered to witness the response generated by the beta program and are working towards accommodating all pending sign up requests as soon as we launch live.

  Bhavin Turakhia

  Program, Witness, Response

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• I'd be flattered if someone said that my work is "too weird" for them. I value the uncompliment.

  Kelly Link

  Said, Ifs, Values

  "An Interview with Kelly Link: 'All Books Are Weird'". Weird Fiction Review Interview, weirdfictionreview.com. November 2, 2011.

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• If you are fearful, a horse will back off. If you are calm and confident, it will come forward. For those who are often flattered or feared, the horse can be a welcome mirror of the best in human nature.

  Clare Balding

  Horse, Mirrors, Welcome

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• There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible; the latter on small ones and pleasing; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other, we are flattered, into compliance.

  Edmund Burke

  Differences, Sublime, And Love

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.118

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• our republican ideas cannot be consistently carried out while women are excluded from any share in the government. ... Any class of human beings to whom a position of perpetual subordination is assigned, however much they may be petted and flattered, must inevitably be dwarfed, morally and intellectually.

  Lydia M. Child

  Government, Class, Ideas

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• In all seriousness, I'm flattered and humbled to have been asked to reprise my role as Luke in the 'Veronica Mars' movie.

  Sam Huntington

  Roles, Mars, Seriousness

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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