Geri Halliwell

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.

British Musician

Jim McKelvey

Personally, I don't want to do a lot of angel deals in a year. I get approached a lot. I'm becoming less and less polite, which doesn't seem to be helping. A lot of the things I get pitched on are from people who just want to make money.

American Businessman

Gene Simmons

The only jobs kids have are to do well in school, to be charming and polite, and be thankful. That's it. I'll house you, protect you, I'll even give my life for you, and in return, you will behave.

American Musician

Eugene Levy

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.

Canadian Actor

J. Michael Straczynski

When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that's how you learn, from people who don't have to be polite to you.

American Producer

John McAfee

My fragile connection with the world of polite society has, without a doubt, been severed.

Gerald Chertavian

I've never been afraid to make a polite ask to someone.

Douglas Booth

I would hope I was raised polite and charming.

English Actor

Fran Lebowitz

American Journalist

Joseph Joubert

French Writer

What's considered polite can differ across cultures, so be aware of local customs.

Cultural Variance

Being polite is not just about words, but also about the sincerity behind them.

Sincerity Matters

Overusing polite manners can sometimes seem insincere or create distance.

Too Polite

Polite can describe language used to hide true feelings or avoid conflict.

Hidden Motives

Using polite can signal an effort to avoid direct confrontation or disagreement.

Avoiding Confrontation

Polite language might mask one's true opinion out of a desire to be diplomatic.

Masks True Opinion

In formal or sophisticated settings, being polite means adhering to etiquette.

Formal Settings

Politeness can often be associated with the behavior expected in 'polite society'.

High Society Behavior

In mathematics, polite has a specific meaning, unrelated to manners.

Specific Terms

 that suggests there might be two kinds of laughs that we have. So it seems possible that the neurobiology for helpless, involuntary laughter, like my parents lying on the floor screaming about a silly song, might have a different basis to it than some of that more polite social laughter that you encounter, which isn't horrible laughter,

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 other people's renewables, so we could go back and talk very politely to the people in the top left-hand side of the diagram and say, "Uh, we don't want renewables in our backyard, but, um, please could we put them in yours instead?" And that's a serious option. It's a way for the world to handle this issue.

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 We're actually pretty bad at figuring out who's a taker, especially on first impressions. There's a personality trait that throws us off. It's called agreeableness, one the major dimensions of personality across cultures. Agreeable people are warm and friendly, they're nice, they're polite.

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 Asking a zodiac sign is a polite way of asking your age. By revealing your zodiac sign, you are also being evaluated. Judgments are being made about your fortune or misfortune, your personality, career prospects and how you will do in a given year.

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 This holiday season, people around the world will give and receive presents. You might even get a knitted sweater from an aunt. But what if instead of saying "thanks" before consigning it to the closet, the polite response expected from you

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 hate politician x yeah next tweet is i wish polite politician x wasn't alive as we some of us have said about putin right now for example so that's legitimate speech another tweet is i wish politician x wasn't alive with a picture of their

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 in the way that adults do at the absurdities of children. And they would tell me knowingly, "You'll change your mind." And people have been saying things like that to me my whole life. Otherwise polite conversation can turn intrusive fast.

I don't want children --...

 which evidently was very close and uh very polite um lincoln had asked him if you would like to see some field reports sent in by some field commanders on the battlefield and my father said yes so lincoln had given him the reports to

Children of U.S. Civil...

 got a lot of respect for the little hairs so I just managed to get really close to a mountain here it's very obliged very polite little hair it has sort of wandered off now and you can see behind me that's why I was filming because

Sophisticated Mountain...

 if I'm using a silver spoon I feel very fancy because I'm using a plastic spoon that's exciting one of do dishes at night if I'm using my hands or them you know feel kind of savage it's not very polite and I have this emotional