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Compliment Quotes


"Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around."


"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."


"I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way."


"I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent."


"There are so many questions to be answered and so many personal compliments that we appreciate so very much."


"Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment."


"I can't simulate you with moon, moon is fully naked and you are fully clothed."


"I can take criticisms but not compliments."


"I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment."


"I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth."


"I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget."



"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."


"If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable."


"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."


"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."


"I never get tired of hearing compliments."


"Anytime anybody impersonates you, it's a great 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.'"


"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."


"The biggest compliment to me is that guys really approach me and they have a connection with me, so there must be something I'm doing that is authentic, otherwise they wouldn't connect with me so strongly. It's a real compliment."


"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 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."


"To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved."


"UN-Impressive 'Compliments' . . . When compliments are used as a passive-aggressive way to manipulate others for personal gain. Delivering a back-handed compliment which makes others feel bad. Dishonesty-you say it but really do not mean it. False bravado. Manufacturing the moment for your ulterior motives. Pandering to win affection, a vote, or approval. Exaggerating and being over-zealous. Being hypocritical. Expressing preferential treatment or making an unfair comparison. When it draws attention to a person's weakness, disabilities, or shortcomings. When it is inappropriate and off-color."


"When I got finished, Gershwin paid me the ultimate compliment. He said, 'Boy, even I couldn't do that.'"


"Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them."



"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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