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To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.
When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.
Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.
Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.
If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable.
Quite frankly, I don't like you humans. After what you all have done, I find being 'inhuman' a compliment.
In India, when someone calls you sexy, they don't mean it as a compliment; it has derogatory connotations.
I'm not easily offended so whether it be a compliment or a derogatory comment, it really doesn't bother me.
Drama is basically what I do, so it's a compliment that people think it's hard for me to get back to drama.
When we came out with 'Lazy Sunday,' the greatest compliment I heard was that Questlove had it on his iPod.
I'm really bad at taking compliments, but whenever I get them, I tell myself, 'Way to go, girl' and move on.
God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.
There are so many questions to be answered and so many personal compliments that we appreciate so very much.
Never patronise someone who knows they don't deserve it, for they will be quick to compliment your failures.
That's the greatest compliment I can get: when somebody from Key West says, 'Hey, Bubba.' That means I'm in!
Maybe it's a compliment to the film that you can't do that with it, that it can't be explained in 15 seconds.
If somebody says I'm a leader or notices the things I try to do to be a leader, it's the ultimate compliment.
Someone told me I had funny facial expressions. I don't know whether I take that as a compliment or not, but.
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive.
If you take it as a compliment that you don't look your age, then you're really shooting yourself in the foot.
She’s easy to like. I’ve never understood why that’s considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you.
I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
Everyone thinks they went to high school with me. I take it as a compliment that I look different in every role.
As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.
If there are people who admire us and what we do, that's a huge compliment. As long as it doesn't get too crazy.
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
When a director you admire says that he wants to work with you, it's always a compliment, very good for your ego.
I always get compared to looking like a silent movie star - though I don't know if that's a compliment, honestly.
Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.
When people see me in something and say, 'That's just you - that's not acting,' it's the best compliment I can get.
The biggest compliment I get is that I don't sound like anybody else. I think I value that as the highest compliment.
If you won't talk about yourself, at least compliment the audience. Just keep turning it back around, all right. Gush.
If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.
One critic called me nothing but a blues singer, as though that was a slight. That is the highest compliment there is.
The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment.
Amaal is a music composer, and I am singer, so I think we compliment each other rather than competing with each other.
The biggest compliment I get is when someone tells me, 'You're so real.' Even if my journey isn't exactly like theirs.
The West didn't see our real situation, and we were blinded by the compliments coming from the Europeans and Americans.
There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
I think the biggest compliment an actor can have is if people forget who they're watching and get lost in the character.
I think the fact that Rajamouli sir wrote the character of 'Baahubali' for me has been the biggest compliment in itself.
You know the old saying kill him with kindness that's the way you shut me up. With a compliment, I have nothing to prove.
Don't compliment me in the middle of an argument. It won't make me stammer or blush, and it just makes you look desperate.
I dislike the concept of 'chic' being the highest compliment for a human being. I'd rather someone be nice than to be chic.
The greatest compliment a coach can get from another coach around the league is, 'Hey, your guys play hard. They're tough.'
If we're compared to Metallica, the greatest metal band in the world, I think that's actually a pretty damn good compliment.
If you're going to compare me to somebody and it's going to be Carrie Underwood, I will absolutely take that as a compliment.
Manchester United are a great club, and being associated with them is a great compliment for me, but Atletico are also great.