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As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.


Karl Ove Knausgard
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I seem to have very polite fans, not fanatical ones.


Natalie Imbruglia
Tags: Very Seem Fans
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Canadians are nice and polite. It's not just a stereotype.


Justin Trudeau
Tags: Just Nice Polite
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The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.


Henry Miller
Tags: Form Self Concert
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When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.


Winston Churchill
Tags: You Man Nothing
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I don't sugarcoat things, but I'm very polite in delivering them.


Kellyanne Conway
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.


Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort.


Carl Paladino
Tags: Think Want Effort
It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.
Russell Lynes
Tags: Always Your Those
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Glasgow is less polite than Edinburgh but that's a good thing - they keep it very real.


Nik Kershaw
Tags: Good Very Than
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I am definitely not as polite as Beatrice, I have to say. I tell it as it is. I am shyer at first.


Princess Eugenie of York
Tags: Am Say I Am
Democracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals.
Geoff Mulgan
Tags: Anger About Needs
I was anathema in polite society after I made 'Last House.' People literally would grab their children and run from the room.
Wes Craven
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I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.


Tom Hooper
Tags: People More Very
Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it.
Louis C. K.
Tags: Just Way Even
Texas, to be respected must be polite. Santa Anna living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna dead, would just be another dead Mexican.
Sam Houston
Tags: Just Would Must
As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.
Zig Ziglar
I get very annoyed when people think I'm nice or diffident or a polite English gentleman. I'm a nasty piece of work, and people should know that.
Hugh Grant
Tags: Work People Think
And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is on the stairs or the block in polite society.
Henry Lawson
Tags: Women Men Society
Tequila. Straight. There's a real polite drink. You keep drinking until you finally take one more and it just won't go down. Then you know you've reached your limit.
Lee Marvin
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Self-improvement books, friends, and polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing, and solving our real problems.
Martha Beck
Tags: About Our Many
People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
Vincent Cassel
The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too polite to say anything about it. That should calm your nerves.
Wynton Marsalis
Tags: You People About
I learned my values. It's better to be poor than to be beholden. Wealth is not the object of life. You should be polite as long as possible, and when you can't be polite anymore, don't run.
Daniel Woodrell
Tags: You Life Than
I wish somebody would have told me, 'Don't try too hard,' because when I was younger I wanted to try really hard. I wanted to please everybody and be this perfect, polite little girl.
Taylor Spreitler
Tags: Me Because Really
I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters.
Eugene Levy
Tags: Family Get Love
Political civility is not about being polite to each other. It's about reclaiming the power of 'We the People' to come together, debate the common good and call American democracy back to its highest values amid our differences.
Parker Palmer
Tags: Good Power People
I've had my successes and failures. I know many academics in my field loathe me. I've come to loathe them back, as it seems only polite to do so. But at heart it's absurd; we should band together against the big common enemies.
Alain de Botton
Tags: Me Know Had
In all great epochs of history, the existence of standards - that is, the conscious adoption of type-forms - has been the criterion of a polite, well-ordered society; for it is a commonplace that repetition of the same things for the same purpose exercises a settling and civilizing influence on men's minds.
Walter Gropius
Tags: Great Men History
I think a theater show is a pure version of me doing my material. The theater crowd is a bit more polite, there really aren't hecklers, and there are a lot of people there to see me, and they're excited about the jokes and hanging out with me for a show.
Anthony Jeselnik
Tags: People Me About
When I started blogging in 2004, I responded to every comment no matter how nasty the reader was. I was generally polite, believing that these critics would be so charmed by my professionalism that they would see the error of their misogynist ways and swiftly run out to read a bell hooks book. Ha!
Jessica Valenti
Tags: Out Would How
My mother is old-fashioned; she raised us like girls from a 19th-century book. My sisters and I are known for being the most polite girls in France. My mother wanted us to be like royalty: never ever will you be caught being rude, or superficial or being a star or whatever.
Lou Doillon
Tags: You Like Will
I think, regardless of gender, women and men need to be brave, take chances with their work, and be open to feedback. But I do think 'politeness' is an issue that can hinder your work if you aren't careful. Kindness is important, but being overly polite - thinking you can't disagree with someone about your own work - be careful about that.
Ellie Kemper
Tags: Work Women Men
My daughter is the biggest gift; I've said it so many times and it sounds like a cliche, but the thing about being a parent is when you think you've cracked it, and you're on top of your game, they change again and you have to catch up and adjust. I feel such a responsibility to instill good values in her, to be polite, to have discipline.
Geri Halliwell
Tags: Good Change You