A Quote by Tom Herman

We all want to be praised, right? — © Tom Herman
We all want to be praised, right?

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Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.
I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]
When Hillary Clinton deserved to be praised, I praised her. When Donald Trump did, as well, I did that, too.
I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.
If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other.
I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?
Saul Bellow says, funny enough, what French think of your work is tremendously important. And it is. It's more than what the Italians, the Spanish, and the Germans think. Somehow it's still got that cultural primacy. I feel that too: to get praised in France is better than to get praised anywhere else.
The funny thing about this business is the only time I get praised is for being critical, but I don't want that to be my sole reputation as an announcer.
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers. I, on the contrary, maintain that they ought to be praised in their lifetime if they merit it; but jealousy and calumny, roused against their virtue or their talent, labour to degrade them if any one ventures to bear testimony to them. It is unjust criticism that they should fear to hazard, not sincere praise.
If we want equality, we shouldn't then expect to be praised just because we're doing a certain job. That's not equality.
If you play well, you are praised; if you play badly, you are criticised. Everyone should try to manage it the way they want to.
If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions.
I've always gotten credit for being a big man who doesn't want to shoot threes. Throughout my entire basketball career prior to coming to the NBA, I was praised for doing that.
I was trained classically, and that's something that I want to do, but I do want to say that right now it's a good market for female comedians, and I want to explore that right now. I really do want to do dramas and meatier roles, especially film.
If the night's right and the people are right, of course I want to be out, I want to be socializing. I don't want to be in my studio 24 hours a day for the whole rest of my life.
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