To be fair, most of the time we're just trying to be nice. (When your girlfriend asks if she looks good in her new dress, most guys--if they know what's good for them--say yes.) Indeed, according to DePaulo's study, such "false-positive" fibs are delivered 10 to 20 times more often than spurious denials of culpability.
"To be honest it was just nice to be nominated, but it's a real achievement especially when its voted for by the fans, " he said.
Sometimes it keeps you going but sometimes you just say it would be nice just to have closure.
Ultimately Gates and Buffett should be free to dispose of their wealth as they wish, but just once it would be nice to pick up the paper and read about an industrialist unabashedly holding on to all his money.
Life under New Labour was not supposed to be just a nice day out.
"It's just nice to be called up, and I hope if my chance comes I can grasp it with both hands, " he said.
It would just be nice to have some solid empirical evidence on the size and direction of these effects before taking a final stand on the issue.
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In the MPAA's view, "they're not supposed to be nice just because someone's little (and they're big), " Zittrain said.
So they're not just the typical first lady to be nice ladies who are going to promote literacy kind of thing, you know.
"I think it caused a certain level of isolation and distrust on the part of someone who really just wanted to be a very very gentle, nice, kindhearted soul and have similar people around him, " he says.
"He was such a nice guy I just wanted to be him, " says the actor of the role.
Those special advisers must get along with the new foreign minister, Nobutaka Machimura, who may not be content just to run the bureaucracy and make nice speeches.
What would be nice to see is a breakdown not just of the age demographics on Facebook, but also how active each age demographic is on Facebook, in terms of number of posts per day or amount of time spend on the social network.
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So go forth, friends, and use this new info to either make the switch or squeeze a better deal out of your current provider -- just remember, no matter how hard you try, you're just not gonna be able to get that unlocked GSM phone to play nice with Sprint or Verizon.
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"It's nice to be in a place we can just enjoy, " he said.
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It would be nice to think that the game of chicken was just a childhood phenomenon.
It would be nice if I could just pick and choose what problems to face, when to face them.
Just to give a different view to some fans, I think it could be nice and different, but it depends on every individual what they want to tweet or talk about.
Most people just think of it as future-proofing something that might be nice to have.
In 1900, a couple of prospectors spotted what appeared to be a patch of nice green pasture on a distant hillside, just right for grazing their horses.
To CNN, he said he admired the "commitment to cover all sides of the story, just in case one of them happens to be accurate, " while he commended the "nice change of pace" at MSNBC.
I'm just waiting for Santa to bring me a car for Christmas... a convertible would be nice!
"Our lives at this point are speeding up.....it's so nice to just sit with people and go back to the way things used to be where it really is about being together for an hour and talking smack about stupid stuff, " says Mr. Corgan, who also owns a professional wrestling promotion company.
Yeah thank you very much, it's, I can only just hear you, we're having a few hearing problems here but it's nice to be with you this morning.
He is a nice guy but I met him in the wrong time so it was just not meant to be!
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All of this means is that if Netanyahu was planning to be nice to Obama, and pretend that everything is terrific with the administration, he should just forget about it.
It would be nice to report that Lillehei's spectacular success came with minimal sacrifice, but this is just not so.
It would be nice to think that the business of kindness will not be captured by professional marketeers and become just another device for paying lip service to how people think business ought to behave.
So it's nice to be reminded every so often that the only way to get inner peace is to just, as Wunmi would say, do you, even if sometimes being yourself is the hardest thing in the world to do, sometimes.
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