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"Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them."
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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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"He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself!"
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"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."
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"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."
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"When I got finished, Gershwin paid me the ultimate compliment. He said, 'Boy, even I couldn't do that.'"
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"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.'"
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"For me, it's a compliment to be compared with Marilyn, the unforgettable actress, the most beautiful one of all. But, curves aside, we have very little in common."
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"I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget."
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"Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around."
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"In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead."
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"Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night."
Day
"Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all."
Art
"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
Man
"Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear."
Fear
"Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing."
Thought
"Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune."
Music
"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
Being
"It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf."
Peace
"If you have one true friend you have more than your share."
Friendship
"Anger is one of the sinews of the soul."
Anger
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