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There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.
Chris Rock
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There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.
Chris Rock
Funny
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Need
,
Only
You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot.
Phyllis Diller
Someone
,
Old
,
Alligator
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.
David Amram
Jazz
,
Doing
,
Play
When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
Helen Rowland
Wife
,
Giving
,
Advice
Sure, the job of high school teachers is not to tear down students' self-esteem. But it's certainly not to inflate students' sense of self-worth with a bunch of unearned compliments and half-truths.
LZ Granderson
Self-Esteem
,
Sure
,
Certainly
Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
Thomas Fuller
Nothing
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Cost
,
Pay
When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.
Sun Tzu
Enemy
,
Sign
,
Truce
Of my old tendency to overdo the dedication and deface the title page with florid compliments and obscure quotes which the recipient cannot read, I will say only that I learnt my lesson when I had to shell out with my own money for a hardback I'd vandalised and now limit myself to 'Good wishes.'
Howard Jacobson
Own
,
Tendency
,
Overdo
It's always the compliments from people you love that mean so much.
Maria Bamford
Love
,
Always
,
Mean
I take compliments and I take constructive criticism. Not everyone loves you. It's the way you react as a footballer. I use it all to make me play better.
Timothy F. Cahill
Play
,
Everyone
,
Use
One of the nicest compliments I would get very often on the street is people would say, 'I love you on 'The Good Wife.' I just can't tell whether I should like you or hate you!'
Nathan Lane
Love
,
Good Wife
,
Very
There aren't really many compliments flying around with me and my friends. It's a lot of tough love. But you know, that love is there, and if you need to have a serious conversation, you just gotta wait for the right time to do it.
Mark Wahlberg
Love
,
Wait
,
Around
You have to love yourself or you'll never be able to accept compliments from anyone.
Dean Wareham
Love
,
Never
,
Anyone
Nothing is worse than a beautiful girl fishing for compliments by saying how gross she is. On the flip side, I find genuine humility and modesty attractive.
Chris Evans
Attractive
,
Gross
,
Side
We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.
Mason Cooley
Leave
,
Insults
,
Prepared
I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
Eddie Vedder
Doing
,
Through
,
Been
Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.
Billy Corgan
Some
,
Based
,
Form
The best advice is often the compliments received, and they are often about an associate who did something exceptional. I tell my teams that it's the random acts of kindness, the unexpected, that people remember most.
Barry Sternlicht
Unexpected
,
Advice
,
Teams
I've never given my phone number to someone on the street, but when someone is a gentleman, I appreciate the compliments.
Aja Naomi King
Never
,
Number
,
Given
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Thomas Wolfe
Money
,
Uninterested
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
Oscar Wilde
Always
,
Disarmed
,
Sexes
I think you need to love giving compliments as much as you love receiving them.
Yami Gautam
Love
,
Think
,
Receiving
I really think that you have to find a partner that compliments you and is somebody that pushes you and is better at some things than you are, so they can push you to improve yourself as a person.
Ashton Kutcher
Think
,
Some
,
Some Things
I think I've become the go-to mustache man. It works in period pieces. Modern-day mustaches are probably creepy. But I get compliments - everyone's like, 'Wow, love the 'stache, dude.'
Jack Huston
Love
,
I Think
,
Works
Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.
Samuel Richardson
Love
,
Will
,
Rather
Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of compliments, and their passions are fundamentalist.
Andrew O'Hagan
Read
,
Similar
,
Could
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