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  • I'm always astounded that people know who I am and what I do. I still have a lot of anonymity and that's good. I don't get bothered in restaurants and stuff like that. But when I'm at events that are really geared toward animation fans, they know who I am. And I'm so very pleased and so flattered by it. People are extremely complimentary to me, and that only encourages me to continue to do more really good work. I get paid by the studios, but I know I work for the fans.

    Source: www.movieweb.com
  • We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.

    Hate   Way   Flattery  
  • The only reason he can miss you is because he’s choosing, every day, not to be with you.

    Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2007). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.95, Simon and Schuster
  • Cesare persuaded King Louis to lend him an entire army to defeat me. I'm flattered.

    Kings   Army   Defeat  
  • In a way, watching an attractive, potentially dangerous guy play guitar is a little like watching a tiger agree to do tricks for his trainer. You know that they could just turn and kill you. But you're so flattered and pleased that instead they agreed to stand on a decorative box and wave and count for the crowd that for a while you forget how big the scary part of them really is.

    Guitar   Play   Guy  
  • An Islamic writer recalls her joy in the clothes she wore as a young girl at a wedding: They were always in beautiful bright colors: crimson, pink, turquoise, purple, and embroidered with sparkling crystals, sequins and beads. ... The older girls and women would wear glamorous heavily-beaded silk blouses and long, princess-like skirts. I wanted to wear those fairy-tale clothes too. I longed even more to wear a sari which the women wore so elegantly and which flattered their curves.

  • Flattery is so necessary to us that we flatter one another just to be flattered in return.

    Marjorie Bowen (1938). “World's Wonder and Other Essays”
  • A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.

    Fool   Pity   Objects  
    "Selectons from Steele's Contributions to the Tatler".
  • Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty.

  • I just feel so flattered, because the cosplayers really make sure every detail is there. I don't think I've ever cosplayed a character before, but if I were to, I'd probably go as a Klingon from 'Star Trek.

  • I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.

    Dancing   Dancer   Enemy  
    William Shakespeare, Alan Brissenden (1998). “As You Like it”, p.219, Oxford University Press, USA
  • Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and ridicule of their rivals.

    Abuse   Rivals   May  
    Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.53
  • I don't know where I'm gonna be two weeks at a time, much less the thing I'm making. I'm just flattered to get the opportunity to do it and to get asked to do it.

    Opportunity   Two   Week  
    "Jason Sudeikis, Alison Brie & Leslye Headland Talk ‘Sleeping With Other People,’ Sex, Indie Films And More". Interview with Ken Guidry, www.indiewire.com. September 17, 2015.
  • I had highfalutin ideas about being a serious actress when I was 16, 17, and first signed at Universal. I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.

    Ideas   Stuff   Paid  
    "Piper Laurie White Christmas" by Edvins Beitiks, www.sfgate.com. December 17, 1998.
  • Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered?

    William Shakespeare (2011). “Hamlet”, p.139, Simon and Schuster
  • Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nature has an element of great toughness in it.

    Children   Hands   Parent  
    Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.78
  • our republican ideas cannot be consistently carried out while women are excluded from any share in the government. ... Any class of human beings to whom a position of perpetual subordination is assigned, however much they may be petted and flattered, must inevitably be dwarfed, morally and intellectually.

  • [Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together.

    Hate   Stupid   Moving  
  • For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help.

    Family   Needs   Helping  
  • The black, hungry roses that Redd sent snaking towards the princess were easily squashed, the orbs and and unmanned, airborne blades of effortlessly waved off, and the spears of black energy (Alyss was flattered, her aunt borrowing this idea from her) pinned motionless to the air by Alyss's own white spears with no trouble.

    Princess   Aunt   Air  
    Frank Beddor (2006). “The Looking Glass Wars”, Dial Books for Young Readers
  • It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them; for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely.

    Gratitude   Vanity   Mind  
  • Once you have the View, although the delusory perceptions of samsara may arise in your mind, you will be like the sky; when a rainbow appears in front of it, it’s not particularly flattered, and when the clouds appear, it’s not particularly disappointed either. There is a deep sense of contentment. You chuckle from inside as you see the facade of samsara and nirvana; the View will keep you constantly amused, with a little inner smile bubbling away all the time.

    Sky   Clouds   Views  
  • I'm very flattered, but I don't think I'm the sexiest man on the planet.

    Men   Thinking   Planets  
  • Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board. Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread, and if not store of it, yet such as shall not take away your property in all men's possessions, in all men's affections, in art, in nature, and in hope.

    Art   Stars   Men  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1876). “Nature: Addresses, and Lectures”, p.152
  • You are always flattered when big clubs are interested in you.

    Clubs   Bigs   Flattered  
  • As a designer, you are flattered to see anyone in one of your designs, whether it's on a red carpet or passing by you in the market. It's this wonderful little high every time.

  • Don’t be flattered that he misses you. He should miss you. You are deeply missable. However, he’s still the same person who just broke up with you. Remember, the only reason he can miss you is because he’s choosing, every day, not to be with you.

    Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2007). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.95, Simon and Schuster
  • O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hath cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet!

    Death   Ambition   Pride  
    Sir Walter Raleigh (1820). “The History of the World: In Five Books. Viz. Treating of the Beginning and First Ages of Same from the Creation Unto Abraham. Of the Birth of Abraham to the Destruction of Jerusalem to the Time of Philip of Macedon. From the Reign of Philip of Macedon to the Establishing of that Kingdom in the Race of Antigonus. From Settled Rule of Alexander's Successors in the East Until the Romans (prevailing Over All) Made Conquest of Asia and Macedon”, p.370
  • Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces; for every woman who is not absolutely ugly thinks herself handsome.

    Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.92, Oxford University Press
  • Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books, as a race of inferior beings condemned by nature to perpetual pupilage, and fruitlessly endeavouring to remedy their barrenness by incessant cultivation, or succour their feebleness by subsidiary strength. They presume that none would be more industrious than they, if they were not more sensible of deficiences; and readily conclude, that he who places no confidence in his own powers owes his modesty only to his weakness.

    Book   Men   Race  
    Samuel Johnson (1823). “The Works of Samuel Johnson: LL.D. A New Edition in Twelve Volumes. With an Essay on His Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.83
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