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Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon.
Steven Brust / Author
Dragons
Speak
Enraged
Politely
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FDR's job results were, to put it politely, disturbing.
Amity Shlaes / Author
Disturbing
Fdr
Politely
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We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely.
William Gilbert / Physician
Fear Will Never
Hang
Politely
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Britons are very respectful - if they want to take a photo, they ask politely.
Leroy Sane /
Britons
Respectful
Photo
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld / Author
Desire
Oneself
Polite
Treated
Esteemed
Politely
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When people think fashion is just the surface of things, I disagree very politely.
Luca Guadagnino /
Disagree
People Fashion Things
Politely
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Whenever I am asked about my personal relationships, I politely reply, 'No comments.'
Hansika Motwani /
Personal Relationships
Comments
Politely
Reply
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I politely refuse to be part of movies where I have to do sister or sister-in-law to protagonists.
Sangeetha Krish /
Protagonists
Politely
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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette / Novelist
Family
Parenting
Children
Should
Bad Thing
Occasionally
Politely
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If someone comes up to me and asks me for a photo, if they do it politely, I'm always going to say yes.
A. J. Pritchard /
Photo
Me Always Someone
Politely
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When someone praises me for some speech uploaded on YouTube, I politely tell them I've been acting for many years.
Radha Ravi /
Youtube
Politely
Praises
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Don't respond to haters' taunts - even politely. Ignore them. If nobody takes their bait, most will grow bored and move on.
Andrew Shaffer /
Bait
Bored
Grow
Nobody
Respond
Even
Haters
Ignore
Move
Move On
Politely
Takes
Taunt
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It's, like, bigots want to embrace me, and I politely take their arms from around my neck. I don't share their views - never have.
Isaiah Washington / Actor
Arms
Bigots
Embrace
Views
Neck
Politely
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My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?
Betty Ford / Former First Lady Of The United States
Humor
Alcohol
Finished
Makeup
Behaved
Bottle
Politely
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It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.
Edward Bond / Playwright
Containing
Genes
Restraining
Assumed
Politely
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I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.
Ben Stiller / Actor
Comic
Drama
Expectations
People
Upset
Good Me People
Allow
Dramas
Politely
Role
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Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
Douglas Coupland / Novelist
Advantage
Ideas
No Idea
Past
Two
Centuries
Phone
Politely
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I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after!
Mercedes Mccambridge / Actress
Another Chance
Ever After
Glory
Impossible
Next
People
Silent
Chance Me People
Happily
Politely
Remain
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You know what takes effort? Being kind, being patient, being respectful, telling someone how you feel politely instead of just avoiding them for six weeks.
Jake Tapper / Journalist
Avoiding
Effort
Patient
Respectful
Six
Feel Know How
Weeks
Instead
Politely
Telling
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It's just like with people. You're going to get along better working with them - human or equine - if you ask politely rather than demand that they do things.
Viggo Mortensen / Actor
Demand
Equine
People
Politely
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I hate it when I have to abandon my children. I politely turn down most of the invitations I get from abroad and try to fly only when it's absolutely necessary.
Sayed Kashua / Author
Abandon
Invitations
Absolutely
Politely
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In life, we mostly manage to walk around interacting with each other fairly politely. But as soon as we get into our cars, we morph into something out of 'Mad Max'.
Romesh Ranganathan /
Interacting
Manage
Max
Fairly
Politely
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I've been called funny. I assume my wife thinks I'm funny. But generally, if you bumped into me and said hello, I would say hello back, politely. And that would be it.
Robert Webb / Comedian
Hello
Assume
Bumped
Generally
Politely
Thinks
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With any tween, you have issues, from what they are going to wear to school, to how do you get them to speak politely, to how regularly they lose their contact lenses.
Marcia Gay Harden / Film Actress
Contact
Lenses
Politely
Regularly
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Many policemen have not completed their education, and the university can help them on this front. Education will enable them to speak well and politely to the people.
Asha Bhosle /
Policemen
Completed
Enable
Politely
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I've politely declined a few reality-type things but generally have been asked to do things that I'd enjoy. I'll be doing less in the new year so I can get some writing done.
Greg Davies /
New Year
Asked
Declined
Generally
Politely
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Generally, when a record label suggests album ideas for you, you smile politely, and then proceed to shoot it down, because it's never what you as an artist feel is right for you.
John Scofield / Guitarist
Smile
Shoot
Label
Politely
Proceed
Record Label
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I want that Sinatra type of fame. It's not the 'Whoever's the hot pop star at the moment' fame. It's the 'Walk into a room and everybody just kind of politely nods their heads' fame. Sinatra fame.
Jerrod Carmichael /
Heads
Just Kind
Politely
Pop Star
Sinatra
Whoever
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When you watch movies in Britain, the reaction when people hate a movie is... they just politely get up and leave at the end. And when they love a movie... they just politely get up and leave at the end.
Paul W. S. Anderson / Film Director
Love Movies Hate
Politely
Reaction
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I used to very politely say that if there is free will then it's in all sorts of boring places, like whether you're going to pick up this or that fork as you begin your meal. There really is none: It's all biology.
Robert Sapolsky /
Biology
Free Will
Begin
Fork
Meal
None
Pick
Places
Politely
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I've learned, I think, to be able to distinguish between the necessary and the unnecessary as far as my limited outside time is concerned. Saying 'no' politely is a necessity if one wants to lead any kind of stable life.
Richard Chamberlain / Actor
Able
Concerned
Stable
Thinking
Unnecessary
Want
Distinguish
Lead
Limited
Necessary
Outside
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I was raised in Duluth, Minnesota, where you never say that you're cold, or that you're suffering, and you listen politely to people, even if you disagree with them completely. Then you say passive-aggressive things later.
Maria Bamford / Comedian
Cold
Disagree
Minnesota
Politely
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I wake up in the morning thinking about victory, I go to sleep thinking about victory, so sometimes it might be hard. But I need to control myself more and, how can I say it politely? Just shut up instead of speaking on the radio.
Charles Leclerc /
Shut Up
Politely
Shut
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I'm always a big fan of if you approach somebody politely about something and you're not a nudge - you're just pretty honest and simple, my kind of philosophy is that I'm not afraid of 'no,' and that's way different than 'I won't take no for an answer.'
Carol Leifer / Comedian
Approach
Big Fan
Politely
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'Sol Invictus' works like your basic FNM record: the sequencing is an artful job, hustling you politely through all the gentle, harsh, weird surprises that follow - and then when it's over, you get back on the ride and start over, just like Space Mountain.
Greg Gutfeld / Television Personality
Gentle
Harsh
Mountain
Sequencing
Artful
Surprises
Hustling
Politely
Ride
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When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
Calvin Trillin / Journalist
Wise
Chinese
Chinese Food
Elsewhere
Engagement
Invited
Kitchen
Policy
Preparation
Less
Possible
Diner
Operated
Politely
Pressing
Saying
Visit
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To empower women, power must be given to them, presumably by an entity that already has it. And that entity is the patriarchy. This also implies that women must be on the receiving end, waiting - politely - to be empowered. Very Victorian-era courtship, isn't it?
Sallie Krawcheck / Manager
Courtship
Entity
Patriarchy
Receiving
Waiting
Empower
Implies
Politely
Presumably
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Words change over time. 'Condescending,' for instance, was once a good thing to be. It meant that a person was willing to interact politely with people of lower social ranks. In Jane Austen's world, a lady praised for her condescension was receiving a sincere compliment.
Nancy Kress / Fiction Writer
Austen
Compliment
Condescending
Instance
Jane
Receiving
Sincere
Time Change Good
Change Time Good
Good Thing
Interact
Lady
Lower
Politely
Praised
Ranks
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I've had tweets questioning whether I really did go to university because surely I would have lost my accent if I did; a letter suggesting, very politely, that I get correction therapy; and an email saying I should get back to my council estate and leave the serious work to the clever folk.
Steph Mcgovern /
Clever
Council
Questioning
Suggesting
Therapy
Accent
Correction
Estate
Folk
Letter
Politely
Surely
Tweets
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I had the pleasure of working for Hart Hanson as the writers' assistant on the Fox show 'Bones.' He was always willing to take five minutes in the kitchen and answer questions I had about writing and the business. Looking back now, I realize he might have just been politely waiting for the coffee to brew.
Anders Holm /
Bones
Coffee
Hart
Looking Back
Assistant
Brew
Fox
Politely
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One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people alienated by it. Even if people don't fully understand where my work is coming from, at least there's somebody who looks kind of sane standing in front of you and politely engaging with you. People react.
Tino Sehgal / Artist
Art
Contemporary
Engaging
People
Sane
Standing
Successful
Alienated
Art Work Culture
Forgets
Work Art Culture
Fully
Politely
React
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One night I was standing on Third Avenue playing my guitar, when this big Irish policeman came strolling by, and stopped to listen to my singing and playing. When I was done, he politely handed me a ticket for disturbing the peace, while at the same time telling me how much he liked my voice. I wish I still had that ticket.
Frank Stallone / Actor
Disturbing
Guitar
Night
Standing
Voice
Avenue
Handed
Policeman
Politely
Third
Ticket
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If you don't have the time or desire to do whatever is being asked of you, say, 'no.' Even if you want to bake those cookies for your kid's fundraiser or take on a new freelancing gig, sometimes you just have to politely decline until you do have the extra time. The other party may be disappointed, but it's not the end of the world.
John Rampton /
Cookies
Decline
Desire
Disappointed
End Of The World
Party
Time World Your
Time World Sometimes
Asked
Bake
Extra
Gig
Politely
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