Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll meet them on your way down.
I find rage to be the scariest emotion as an actor, for me personally, to tap into. I don’t like anger, and I don’t like conflict particularly in my life. I like everybody to be nice and things to be easy.
It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
I very often compare relations between states to relations with people. Sometimes we are nicer to those we don’t know well, who are not our friends, than we are to our friends, because with our friends we don’t need to be nice all the time.
Politicians want people to be nice neighbours, but the tools at their disposal are just the tools of modern liberal society, which are nothing.
I’ve been taught always be nice to the lighting people – they’re the people you make friends with straight away so that’s what I do.
It would be nice to play again for a team that has a great chance to win a championship.
They were singing, Gillette, the best a man can get, with a lot of guys hugging their fathers and sailing and riding bikes. I suddenly felt a long way from the best a man could get and I thought it would be nice to get from there to the best.
It is so much easier to be nice, to be respectful, to put yourself in your customers’ shoes and try to understand how you might help them before they ask for help, than it is to try to mend a broken customer relationship.
Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I’m not selling the farm.
A naughty part of me thinks, how come Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry and Tim McInnerny have all done really good parts in a film, whereas I’ve only ever done bits and bobs? Before I die, wouldn’t it be nice to be the scheming old man in a movie?
I think that it’d be nice for other Asians to support other Asian artists and help each other instead of pull each other down.
It’d be nice to say that American media doesn’t hate this country.
I just don’t ever want it to be nice. I’d prefer someone had a violent reaction to my collection than ever call it ‘nice.’
Everybody should be normal. Everybody should be nice. I think they go hand in hand, and that to me is the default setting.
If it was up to me, it would be nice not ever to get stopped on the street, because we just do music. I didn’t do this to become a celebrity.
I always hold doors open, I always try to be nice.
I look forward to another good year next year. It would be nice to win, too.
It’s terrible to be trapped in a bad marriage. It would be nice if your marriage was forever, but why grudge it for what it was not?
You just try to be nice to everybody and treat them all the same. Treat them how you would want to be treated.
It’s nice to be important, but it’s important to always be nice.
I like starting off the new year fresh. I’m excited to see how 2013 turns out. Maybe because I’m an actress and I am always on a diet and fitness program, but my New Year’s resolution is to let myself be nice to myself about my body.
I just don’t want to die alone, that’s all. That’s not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.
The fact I even get an opportunity to make one album is crazy. But if all goes to plan, I’ll get to make five albums. That’d be nice.
I think it would have been nice to have a family; it would be nice to have grandchildren.
I’d love to have a little Coco if I could have my way. I always dress up my dogs and they probably hate me for it, so it would be nice to dress up a human being.
It would be nice to finish Khabib via liver shots, wouldn’t it? I just want to see him wincing in pain on the ground where he belongs.
2021, I am noticing, I am doing a lot of romantic songs which are going to be nice and special.
I think that fans are always looking for someone to blame. Wouldn’t it be nice if they looked in the mirror?
Have you ever thought about those last moments of your life? Nobody wants a long, lingering illness; nobody wants just that; but it would be nice if you could have a day or two where you know it’s coming.
Sometimes it would be nice not to be recognizable!
I really miss having a routine because now I’ve been on the road constantly for several months. I like routines, so it would be nice to get those routines back.
I’ve always tried to be nice to people, so that sort of translates into popularity, I guess.
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
I think that a lot of the time, we get in our own heads and make up what other people are thinking, but no one actually cares about the thing you think they care about. You just gotta take that weight off your shoulders and be nice to yourself and be yourself. People will fall in love with who that is.
Artie said it would be nice if we got married. I said it would be nice, too. The next thing I knew, we were on our way to Las Vegas.
I thought it would be nice to sit in with Timothy B. Schmit and sing ‘Take It to the Limit,’ but they pretty much gave me a ‘no’ in a roundabout way. I can’t blame them. They have to keep their band the way it is.
My whole life I try to make into a comedy, so it would be nice to see that onscreen.
I’m the first to admit I’ve had a sheltered life. I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all just part of the business – be nice to everyone and all that.
As a woman, I’m expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don’t design nice buildings – I don’t like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.
You know what has made me the happiest I’ve ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting them to be educated, I wanted them to be nice people. To see that they have become both is just a wonderful thing.
Wouldn’t it be nice if human nature could learn stuff before we get to the brink? It seems we have to experience it first.
There’s not one part of me that wants to go crazy and do anything out of the ordinary, but it would be nice to do something and not have it spread all over the place. But that’s the world we live in now, and you either have to accept it or figure it out – or become a villain, I guess.
You have to be nice to everybody, and then people want you to succeed.
Oh my God, there are so many songs I wish I had written. ‘Waters of March,’ I wish I had written ‘My Baby Just Cares for Me,’ I wish I had written ‘This Will Be Our Year,’ I mean, there’s millions of them. ‘Wouldn’t It Be Nice?’
My mother had a Spanish upbringing. She was an excellent cook. Everything was home-made. We didn’t eat food with smiley faces on it. My Mum passed away in 1994. I miss her. I miss her cooking. It would be nice to have a meal with her again.
Treat others as you wish to be treated. Don’t just be nice, but be kind to other people. That can be so rewarding.
Most of the people I know who were raised to be accommodating or were raised to just be nice and put everybody’s needs ahead of theirs, there comes a moment when the pressure builds and they can’t do it anymore. They have needs and they feel neglected and they usually explode.
Grand Slam losses are hard. I treat myself after losses though, I usually go to McDonald’s and I have a hamburger and you know, something. Because you know, you just need to be nice to yourself sometimes after the loss.
I’ve made peace with the fact that the World Cup will not define me. Yes, it would be nice to add that to what’s been a very enjoyable career, but I know it won’t define me as a person or cricketer.
The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
Social media, to me, has got out of hand. Why can’t we all be nice to each other?
People have said to me, ‘It must be nice to prove so many people wrong,’ but I’ve never really cared about proving anything to anybody else.
Songwriting is different from music, although I don’t deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.
It must be nice for today’s hitters when you don’t have to worry about being thrown at. It’s a whole different deal. When I played, getting knocked down was an accepted part of the game.
The big trick is just to get to a point where we’re just considered DPs, and we’re not ‘female DPs.’ When you think of the word ‘doctor’ or ‘teacher,’ you don’t think gender. And it would be nice to get to a place where ‘DP’ meant either and ‘director’ meant either and ‘gaffer’ meant either.
In the business arena, the standard rules of morality don’t apply. What we’re really looking for is efficiency. It doesn’t do anyone any good to be nice to the weak. In a certain sense, competition is inefficient.
Be nice to each other. You can make a whole day a different day for everybody.
You gotta be nice. The way I look at it, why not be a nice guy to people?
I have realised that it’s important to be a sport, be nice, and know what to speak and when.
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.
