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Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it. Charles Caleb Colton
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel. Alan Bradley
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Flattery'll get you anywhere. Charles Lederer
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Invitation is the sincerest flattery. Carolyn Wells
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I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery. Charlotte Bronte
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Praise to the undeserving is severe satire. Benjamin Franklin
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A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.
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When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are. Robin McLeavy
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Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view. Michael Leunig
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unless the federal government adopts New Orleans as its ward and pays all its bills for the next 20 years--an unlikely to absurd proposition--the place won't be rebuilt. Dennis Hastert
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I think we get stuck in routines so easily that when an absurd moment in life seems to be there for no reason, it wakes you up out of your everyday pattern. You pull back and look at life a little bit wider because of that one weird thing you weren't expecting. Kurt Braunohler
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I was writing this really long joke about the smell of poop, and I was like, 'What am I doing with my life?' I started to think about why I was a comedian, and then I came up with a reason for existence, which is: inserting absurdity or stupidity into strangers' lives in order to make the world a better place.
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I like that feeling of discombobulation that comes in creating an absurd world that doesn't make sense. 'Monty Python' does a good job of it; 'Bugs Bunny,' too. Reggie Watts
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Like everyone else, I grew up loving the Anne books, but L.M. Montgomery is so much more. Like Jane Austen, she has an eye for the absurd and a gift for the 'mot juste.' Lauren Willig
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It seems so absurd to get really mad with a cartoonist over a comic strip. It's sort of like getting in a fight with a circus clown outside your house. It's not going to end well. Stephan Pastis
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About half the scripts sent to me feature characters I just can't identify with, particularly one-dimensional businessmen or, if it's a comedy, some absurd 10-year-old Japanese stereotype, some role related to IT or business... There's no point in getting mad about it; it's just the way things are. Ken Watanabe
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Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone. Carolina Herrera
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We're in a situation where we just can't stop the bleeding. We keep trying to put band-aids on the wound, but nothing seems to help. John Sacchi
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When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work. Jim Rash
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We're going to do what we've been doing all year. It seems to be working fine.
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Anything seems commonplace, once explained. Arthur Conan Doyle
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I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts. Kate Grenville
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It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar. Todd Rundgren
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There's something about [cyclically] doing something over and over and over that seems to be particularly demotivating. Dan Ariely
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I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago. Ben Stein