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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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"Certain girls deserve lots of flowers. You are one of them."
"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.'"
"Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around."
"I don't believe in trouble. Because I think that trouble is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I've been known to be called trouble, which I think is quite a compliment. But I suppose, thinking about it, that my best and worst trouble has always had something to do with a man."
"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."
"Adrian smiled and clasped my hands, taking a few steps toward me. "And as for who you are, you're the same beautiful, brave, and ridiculously smart caffeinated fighter you've been since the day I met you. Finally, he put "beautiful at the top of his list of adjectives. Not that I should have cared."Sweet talker, I scoffed. "You didn't know anything about me the first time we met."I knew you were beautiful, he said. "I just hoped for the rest."
"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."
"When I got finished, Gershwin paid me the ultimate compliment. He said, 'Boy, even I couldn't do that.'"
"I can't simulate you with moon, moon is fully naked and you are fully clothed."
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"But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity."
"I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being."
"I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life."
"My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important."
"I've had it all my life and when it can time for me to start a family, I was quite anxious to do so."
"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."
"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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