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    You don't have to lie to me to be nice, Jake. You can just say, 'Wow, your nails look crappy.'" I did my best boy voice. "Well, I will tell you that's a crappy imitation of my voice." He smiled so wide I could see his eyetooth from across the table. "But you've got to know you're totally hot, chipped nails and all." He burned beet red all the way to the roots of his hair. "Man, you get me to say some embarrassing stuff, Brenna." He rubbed his hand on the back of his neck. "Hey, don't blame me when you feel moved to make strange declarations.

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    You have the most lovely skin,”  Finn told her. “Like mahogany. Like the finest river loam. Could I touch it?” “You are touching it, Casanova,”  Rita answered, eyes on the blood pressure dial. “Behave.” “Casanova?”  Finn shot Diego a questioning glance. “Famous lover.” “Ah. A compliment?” “Sarcasm.”  Please don’t make me explain sarcasm. “Typical.” Apparently, it wouldn’t be necessary.

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    You look too pretty to be useful.

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    You're an asshole." "And you're a bitch," he says. "A bitch with a kick-ass smile and eyes that can seriously screw with a guy's head.

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    You're so much more than I deserve, than I dared to want. This isn't about saving me, is it? It's about saving you too.

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    Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.

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    You’re the prettiest thing I’ve seen fall from the sky today.

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    You stood up to the dragon so Beckendorf would have his chance to jump - now that was brave." "Or pretty stupid." "Percy, you're a brave guy," she said. "Just take the compliment. I swear, is it so hard?

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    Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

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    A compliment makes someone feel good about themselves. A catcall is harassment.

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    A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.

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    A compliment is verbal sunshine.

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

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    A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.

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    Alayana would forget my compliments

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    All I do is lie, and that has made me immune to compliments.

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    A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise.

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    An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

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    An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.

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    An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

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

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    Anytime anyone compliments me on my figure, I'm wearing my Spanx undies.

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    A sincere compliment is one of the most effective tools to teach and motivate others.

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    Any writer knows he has to pay for his compliments. As soon as he has said, Why, thank you, that's very generous of you, the other person clears his throat and dives into his own writing experiences.

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    A reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool.

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    As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.

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    Architects love to rethink a project - that's what we do. If something is successful, like a house or a kettle, in this case, it's a great compliment when someone wants another one.

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    A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

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    Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.

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    Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with?

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    Calling a show a 'guilty pleasure' is like saying 'I'm embarrassed to say I watch it but I can't stop.' That's not a compliment.

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    Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want.

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    Compliment people wherever you go. Praise every single thing you see. Be a ray of sunshine to everyone you meet.

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    Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.

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    Complimenting yourself is the funnest form of manifestation.

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    Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses.

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    Complaints bring misery; compliments brings strength.

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    Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.

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    Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.

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    Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

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    For any actor to have Oliver Stone call him or her up… It’s a compliment. He expects you to be on your toes. If you’re not, he pokes at you until you react. He’s very provocative, creatively. It started like a lot of hard work, but it ended up a lot of fun.

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    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.

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    Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.

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    Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

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    Federer said something interesting once. He said that he was watching Rod Laver, and me, and he said he was trying to copy us and to be like us. And that’s a great compliment for us.

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    Having one of your like dumb sort of stream of consciousness tweets used against you on a right wing website is the ultimate compliment.

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    Get into the relationship for the right reason because it's a great support system, because it's a great compliment to your life, because it's someone that actually fulfills you and makes you happy.

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

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    Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it.

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    How do you summon up courage to dismiss a cat who is paying you a compliment of sitting on your lap?

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