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• People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved… — Victoria Beckham
• Just don't let the hype of what people are saying and how much they love you, y'know, just take the… — Mary J. Blige
• I take anything other than 'you big pig!' as a compliment. — Albert Brooks
• Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's… — Joyce Brothers
• Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment,… — Leo Buscaglia
• Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority… — Samuel Butler
• I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward.… — Nick Cave
• The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment. — Lord Chesterfield
• You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush - if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn't need a… — Tommy Chong
• If people did not compliment one another there would be little society. — Luc de Clapiers
• As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I… — Clarence Clemons
• There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment. — Robert Breault

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