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When you (make) a couple of big shots down the stretch and then find yourself in a position to make a play on the other side, I think that gives everybody a good boost, i think I got more compliments on that in the locker room than any shot I made tonight. – Steph Curry	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I am crazy about the smell of these incense sticks! they make you smell like a spa. I wish L’Oréal would make a perfume to smell like this incense because I love it. I rub this on me and I get so many compliments. – Andie MacDowell	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I've never had so many compliments about a book, with people telling me, ‘This is your best book. This is better than Alex Cross.' That's really been a very nice thing. – James Patterson	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It was emotional, i was happy, more than anything, that my kids got to be there and my wife. Its always nice to hear compliments, compliments are nice, let’s face it everyone likes it. I don’t like the limelight. I’m happy it’s over with because I like to fly under the radar. – Paul Stastny	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love – Socrates	added by ValidVibes 3 years ago
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love – Socrates	added by ValidVibes 3 years ago
When my hair is fully styled and big and voluminous I get a lot of stares, a lot of comments, lots of compliments, i want to think that everything is positive, but there are some people who stare like they have no idea what's going on or what they're looking at. – Simone Williams '	Found on CNN 3 years ago
That is one of the most wonderful compliments Ive ever gotten, i never think of being nice, I think of being grateful. I think that I am so happy that I get to do what I dreamt of doing and it has grown over the years. – Henry Winkler	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Compliments on a woman's appearance that some men, including me, might have once incorrectly thought were okay, were never okay. Not then and certainly not today, and for making such comments in the past, I'm sorry. – Chris Matthews	Found on CNN 4 years ago
No one knows exactly how this happens, we just know there's a crossover, everybody has slightly different compliments of their red, blue and green cones, and depending on which of your cones are more sensitive, you may experience a vision change. – Richard Rosen	Found on CNN 4 years ago
What happened was that there was a 7.8 magnitude earthquake, we found ourselves -- I was at 19,000 feet. We lived. There were several other fatalities. I exchanged compliments with another climber who doesn't remember the nature of that compliment being the same as I quoted. I said sorry, I took it down. – Steve Watkins	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Fishkin told Fox News. SCIENTISTS DISCOVER POTENTIAL CURE FOR GRAY HAIR Fishkin said her mother started going gray when she was 18, so she knew there was a good chance she would follow the same silver path. After 12 years of dyeing her hair every four to six weeks, Fishkin decided to accept her silver tresses. I get compliments every day, it really makes me who I am. I love the brightness of it, I think it really matches me really well. Women like Fishkin are not alone in their silver journey. Celebrities like Jamie Lee Curtis and Helen Mirren were some of the first to embrace full silver. And now younger women like Kendall Jenner, Pink and Lady Gaga have followed suit. We’re talking about the last five years the silver trend has been going on, and I'm amazed at how many women actually look really great with silver hair, Massey said. – Andrea Fishkin	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
President Trump tends to talk in personally evaluative terms - both positively and negatively - about his contemporaries. During his campaign, he was better known for his personal insults, but he is also a very complimentary president, hIs compliments, however, tend to be less substantial in terms of touting the complimentee's professional credentials or abilities, and are rather generally evaluative. – Jennifer Sclafani	Found on CNN 7 years ago
A lot of people misunderstood I think, when Trump compliments Putin. – Marie Brenner	Found on CNN 7 years ago
But I ’m now at 235 pounds, this is the best I’ve felt in a long time. I have a lot more energy, my back does n’t hurt, and I ’m getting a lot of compliments. – Ted Gibson	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It happens so often and it is a strange combination for me of feeling completely humbled by that and at the same time feeling very proud about that, he said. I was right in my choices of what I taught ; I was right in my choices of how I produced the show. one of the greatest compliments I would get is that ‘ Surivorman ’ is a show that the entire family would sit down to watch because the young boy scouts and girl scouts would be learning skills, he said. The men would live vicariously by putting themselves in my position, and the women will watch with their eyebrows raised. It really resonated across the whole demographic of the whole family. – Les Stroud	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Trump is the first member of the American elite in 20 years who compliments Russia. Trump will smash America as we know it, we've got nothing to lose, do we want the grandmother Hillary? No. Maybe it's time to help the old brigand. – Konstantin Rykov	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
To receive the compliments of being a good writer really annoys me, as this has been my perception that a writer as such has no value, it is the readers who invest their thought process, give life to dead words, coupled with their own imagination, thus syncing the content to their tastes and sensibilities, that matter.” – Ramana Pemmaraju	added by anonymous 8 years ago
One of the insights I took from this process was that the compliments we so frequently and often unconsciously bestow on girls can actually have a negative effect and even become a source of pain and disempowerment, while counterintuitive, compliments, especially the ones related to physical appearance like 'you're so cute; you're adorable,' were perceived as limiting and oppressive, making girls feel that the expectations on them were focused on their appearance and not on their abilities or what was inside. – Lauren Greenfield	Found on CNN 8 years ago
‘Powers’ is a particularly good fit for PlayStation Network users in the sense that many gamers play with the idea of superhuman capabilities and so the show is likely to attract eyeballs and kind of builds on and compliments many of the themes that crop up in popular video games. – Lewis Ward with IDC	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The assistant said it was no goal, but the referee had the courage to give the goal, he took the responsibility and he was right i have to hand him my compliments. It's difficult to judge on the pitch, in a split second. – Davide Astori	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive. – Raymond Chandler	added by anonymous 10 years ago
When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. – Sun Tzu	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. – Socrates	added by anonymous 14 years ago

When you (make) a couple of big shots down the stretch and then find yourself in a position to make a play on the other side, I think that gives everybody a good boost, i think I got more compliments on that in the locker room than any shot I made tonight.

– Steph Curry

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am crazy about the smell of these incense sticks! they make you smell like a spa. I wish L’Oréal would make a perfume to smell like this incense because I love it. I rub this on me and I get so many compliments.

– Andie MacDowell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I've never had so many compliments about a book, with people telling me, ‘This is your best book. This is better than Alex Cross.' That's really been a very nice thing.

– James Patterson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It was emotional, i was happy, more than anything, that my kids got to be there and my wife. Its always nice to hear compliments, compliments are nice, let’s face it everyone likes it. I don’t like the limelight. I’m happy it’s over with because I like to fly under the radar.

– Paul Stastny

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love

– Socrates

added by ValidVibes
3 years ago

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love

– Socrates

added by ValidVibes
3 years ago

When my hair is fully styled and big and voluminous I get a lot of stares, a lot of comments, lots of compliments, i want to think that everything is positive, but there are some people who stare like they have no idea what's going on or what they're looking at.

– Simone Williams '

Found on CNN
3 years ago

That is one of the most wonderful compliments Ive ever gotten, i never think of being nice, I think of being grateful. I think that I am so happy that I get to do what I dreamt of doing and it has grown over the years.

– Henry Winkler

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Compliments on a woman's appearance that some men, including me, might have once incorrectly thought were okay, were never okay. Not then and certainly not today, and for making such comments in the past, I'm sorry.

– Chris Matthews

Found on CNN
4 years ago

No one knows exactly how this happens, we just know there's a crossover, everybody has slightly different compliments of their red, blue and green cones, and depending on which of your cones are more sensitive, you may experience a vision change.

– Richard Rosen

Found on CNN
4 years ago

What happened was that there was a 7.8 magnitude earthquake, we found ourselves -- I was at 19,000 feet. We lived. There were several other fatalities. I exchanged compliments with another climber who doesn't remember the nature of that compliment being the same as I quoted. I said sorry, I took it down.

– Steve Watkins

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Fishkin told Fox News. SCIENTISTS DISCOVER POTENTIAL CURE FOR GRAY HAIR Fishkin said her mother started going gray when she was 18, so she knew there was a good chance she would follow the same silver path. After 12 years of dyeing her hair every four to six weeks, Fishkin decided to accept her silver tresses. I get compliments every day, it really makes me who I am. I love the brightness of it, I think it really matches me really well. Women like Fishkin are not alone in their silver journey. Celebrities like Jamie Lee Curtis and Helen Mirren were some of the first to embrace full silver. And now younger women like Kendall Jenner, Pink and Lady Gaga have followed suit. We’re talking about the last five years the silver trend has been going on, and I'm amazed at how many women actually look really great with silver hair, Massey said.

– Andrea Fishkin

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

President Trump tends to talk in personally evaluative terms - both positively and negatively - about his contemporaries. During his campaign, he was better known for his personal insults, but he is also a very complimentary president, hIs compliments, however, tend to be less substantial in terms of touting the complimentee's professional credentials or abilities, and are rather generally evaluative.

– Jennifer Sclafani

Found on CNN
7 years ago

A lot of people misunderstood I think, when Trump compliments Putin.

– Marie Brenner

Found on CNN
7 years ago

But I ’m now at 235 pounds, this is the best I’ve felt in a long time. I have a lot more energy, my back does n’t hurt, and I ’m getting a lot of compliments.

– Ted Gibson

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It happens so often and it is a strange combination for me of feeling completely humbled by that and at the same time feeling very proud about that, he said. I was right in my choices of what I taught ; I was right in my choices of how I produced the show. one of the greatest compliments I would get is that ‘ Surivorman ’ is a show that the entire family would sit down to watch because the young boy scouts and girl scouts would be learning skills, he said. The men would live vicariously by putting themselves in my position, and the women will watch with their eyebrows raised. It really resonated across the whole demographic of the whole family.

– Les Stroud

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Trump is the first member of the American elite in 20 years who compliments Russia. Trump will smash America as we know it, we've got nothing to lose, do we want the grandmother Hillary? No. Maybe it's time to help the old brigand.

– Konstantin Rykov

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

To receive the compliments of being a good writer really annoys me, as this has been my perception that a writer as such has no value, it is the readers who invest their thought process, give life to dead words, coupled with their own imagination, thus syncing the content to their tastes and sensibilities, that matter.”

– Ramana Pemmaraju

added by anonymous
8 years ago

One of the insights I took from this process was that the compliments we so frequently and often unconsciously bestow on girls can actually have a negative effect and even become a source of pain and disempowerment, while counterintuitive, compliments, especially the ones related to physical appearance like 'you're so cute; you're adorable,' were perceived as limiting and oppressive, making girls feel that the expectations on them were focused on their appearance and not on their abilities or what was inside.

– Lauren Greenfield

Found on CNN
8 years ago

‘Powers’ is a particularly good fit for PlayStation Network users in the sense that many gamers play with the idea of superhuman capabilities and so the show is likely to attract eyeballs and kind of builds on and compliments many of the themes that crop up in popular video games.

– Lewis Ward with IDC

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The assistant said it was no goal, but the referee had the courage to give the goal, he took the responsibility and he was right i have to hand him my compliments. It's difficult to judge on the pitch, in a split second.

– Davide Astori

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.

– Raymond Chandler

added by anonymous
10 years ago

When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.

– Sun Tzu

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

– Socrates

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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