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"To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved."
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"Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment."
"As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'"
"It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment."
"Anytime anybody impersonates you, it's a great compliment."
"The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing."
"If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable."
"Eye Contact. Direct eye contact is one of the best compliments you can give to another. You are subliminally telling them that you are listening, they matter, and that what they have to say is important."
"Certain girls deserve lots of flowers. You are one of them."
"Players very widely disagree with me about what's hard and what's easy. and in a way, 'I won, but it was a fight' is the best compliment a game can receive."
"I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth."
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"A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another."
"But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity."
"In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man."
"I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect."
"I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be."
"So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one."
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