respect

Quotations

Quotations on the topic of ‘respect’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).

  • “I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal – in this case, the ideal of the pirate – and then becomes something that’s more radical, more exciting, more subversive than a pirate could ever be.” -Will Oldham

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  • “I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so…

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  • “I think it’s great that she’s not perfect and wasn’t perfect. I think that’s maybe why so many young girls and different people look up to Mac and respect her even more.” -Catherine Bell

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  • “Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.” -Beau Bridges

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  • “I’m so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions.” -Bjorn Ulvaeus

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  • “I have nothing but respect for HBO.” -James Gandolfini

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  • “I was raised Jewish, my wife was raised Catholic. Though we respect each other’s heritage, and while many of our friends are deeply religious, we have chosen to focus on our similarities, not our differences. We teach our children compassion, charity, honesty and the benefits of hard work.” -Steven Levitan

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  • “In some ways that fight gave me more respect around the world and helped me be even more popular because so many people felt my pain and saw that I was robbed.” -Marvin Hagler

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  • “I would never want to live in L.A., and I made that decision years ago, so I never chose that path for myself, although I have much respect for those that do it at a high level.” -Matt Cameron

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  • “Arabs respect only the language of force.” -Moshe Sharett

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  • “I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don’t want to be in any box. I don’t want to be one thing.” -Penelope Cruz

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  • “The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.” -Sparky Anderson

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  • “If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I’m on your team.” -Anthony Anderson

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  • “The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.” -John Nelson Darby

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  • “I did private study for about a month, five days a week, six hours a day. I came to understand the character in ways that I never would’ve previous to that. I was so innocent in respect to ways of creating characters.” -Corin Nemec

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  • “This acting’s serious! And I really respect those actors. It’s a tough business to be able to be something you’re not and be natural and convince people on camera.” -Michael Strahan

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  • “And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even.” -Katie Couric

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  • “I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it’s not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show…

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  • “Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights, or are used as an excuse for others to do so.” -Anna Lindh

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  • “As we continue to fight the War on Terror, it is imperative that we protect America’s fallen heroes by ensuring that they are treated with respect, while being laid to rest.” -Jon Porter

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  • “A lot of the time, the way it’s portrayed is that I only see women in a sexual way. But I grew up with just my mum and sister, so I respect women a lot.” -Harry Styles

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  • “If you are killed because you are a writer, that’s the maximum expression of respect, you know.” -Mario Vargas Llosa

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  • “A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters – well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality – but not the types that are preying on innocent people. I have no interest in the type of criminality that has no respect for collateral damage.” -Charlie Hunnam

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  • “I have great respect and understanding for military commitment due to my own family’s involvement with the armed forces.” -Carolyn Murphy

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  • “We tried to approach this as though there’s never been a Superman movie before, but at the same time respecting the canon and mythology. There are the pillars that you have to respect, and I’m not about to break them. But it is fun for me to bend them and mess with them.” -Zack Snyder

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  • “I have two sisters and a mother, obviously, so I grew up with a household of girls. Maybe I have a greater respect for women because of it.” -Hayden Christensen

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  • “For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to become self-sufficient with respect to wheat production but also paved the way to rapid increase in its production in other countries.” -Norman Borlaug

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  • “I always used to say to my wife, the thing that I loved most about us is that we are a team, we are impenetrable in that respect.” -Seal

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  • “One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century.” -Sanford I. Weill

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  • “I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect.” -John Philip Sousa

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  • “I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone’s eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.” -Madeleine Stowe

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  • “I would like to work with anyone in the business who wants to give respect back to the Jamaican vibe.” -Sean Paul

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  • “The more you make fun of yourself and don’t try to go for any kind of respect, the more people seem to respect you.” -James Van Der Beek

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  • “How have relations with Iran and Belarus benefited Venezuela? We are interested in countries that have democracies, that respect human rights, that we have an affinity with. What affinity do we have with Iran?” -Henrique Capriles Radonski

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  • “I think the more we embrace the culture of life and respect life, the better that we do.” -Bob McDonnell

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  • “In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they’re cool, they get respect.” -Danny McBride

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  • “When I’m shooting a movie, I’m always in an invisible theater seat. I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.” -Michael Moore

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  • “General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility to the electoral process, as well as to respect the fundamental right of all those who wish to vote for me.” -Benazir Bhutto

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  • “I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense.” -Tina Weymouth

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  • “If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don’t respect him.” -Wil Wheaton

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  • “I got a nomination for director, which means the world to me it’s just the most exciting thing for me and my family. You do the good hard work, and the rest of it is something you shouldn’t get too caught up in, but when it happens – boy! I respect it.” -David O. Russell

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  • “You get respect when you give respect. That’s how you get respect.” -Michael Nutter

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  • “I would love to have dinner with Jay-Z and Beyonce. I think we would have a lot to chat about. I like them both so much, and I love them as a couple. I like that they are both at the top of their game – and that they have a mutual respect and admiration…

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  • “I know what the attitudes of the readers are: These are guys who love women and respect women.” -Christie Hefner

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  • “I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.” -Gabriela Sabatini

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  • “It’s really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it’s cool.” -Taryn Manning

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  • “I saw and I met a lot of people who were in the field. It also provided a context in which I came to respect what the actor did, because I saw how difficult it actually was to do.” -Ron Silver

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  • “American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn’t seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people.” -Tucker Carlson

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  • “I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds.” -Ruben Blades

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  • “I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat’s off to them.” -Terri Windling

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  • “I have a wonderful respect for old people.” -Craig Kilborn

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  • “I’m just one woman away, my mother, from being the same as Mike Tyson. I would’ve ended up like him if my mama had not been so tough and strong. A lot of people, including Mike, don’t know I came from the ghetto. They think I’m too nice and proper. But that’s the way my…

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  • “I have enormous respect for Steve Johnson, and as I’ve told him, Feed was one of the inspirations for Salon. They were up there before we were. And also for Joey and the Suck people.” -David Talbot

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  • “If any movie people are watching this show, please, for me, have some respect. You wanna sell some tickets, act like you know what you’re talking about.” -Jeff Goldblum

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  • “If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things.” -Nick Park

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  • “I’m very conscious that I want the dance audience to respond and respect what I’m doing, so I’m always very true to the music and I honour the music in the way I see it – I don’t mess around with the music.” -Matthew Bourne

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  • “I try to be the best husband I can be, and if people respect that, that’s cool. But there’s no ‘perfect husband.’ We just all try to do the best we can, you know what I mean?” -Nick Lachey

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  • “See, I respect boxing because it has given me so much and that’s why I will never allow anyone to mistreat the sport of boxing if I can help it.” -Alexis Arguello

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  • “I have many valentines. My mom and my sister and my directors. I got calls from all of them. And my friends. I respect what Valentine’s Day stands for because it is about love.” -Michelle Trachtenberg

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  • “It’s taken folk a while to come around, hasn’t it? Even the boys in the band weren’t too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.” -Ron Wood

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  • “Hopefully, imparting what’s important to me, respect for the food and that information about the purveyors, people will realize that for a restaurant to be good, so many pieces have to come together.” -Thomas Keller

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  • “To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.” -Timothy Radcliffe

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  • “My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I’ve never forgotten that.” -Sam Raimi

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  • “I’ve always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he’s a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood.” -Tyler Perry

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  • “Ninety-nine percent of people now call me The Hoff – and it’s out of respect.” -David Hasselhoff

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  • “I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology.” -Major Owens

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  • “The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.” -Floyd Abrams

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  • “I actually don’t know anyone who wants to be famous for fame’s sake, at least not anyone I respect. But you need to have a certain amount of power in order to be able to do what you want.” -Michael Ian Black

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  • “I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I’m so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.” -Miguel Jontel Pimentel

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  • “I work on words quite separately to music. They’re both ongoing, and I don’t ever feel like I’m working in a cycle in that respect, because it’s every day anyway, no matter what I’m doing. Then I get to a point when I’ve collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs…

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  • “Anybody who asks for democracy to be introduced should respect the results of democracy.” -Ismail Haniyeh

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  • “The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.” -Gerrit Smith

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  • “This is my job and I respect it enough to concentrate on it.” -Andrew Bogut

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  • “It is still a surprise when people tell me that I’ve had an influence on them, particularly when it’s someone I really respect.” -Bonnie Raitt

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  • “I don’t think anyone can speculate what will happen with respect to oil prices and gas prices because they are set on the global economy.” -Ken Salazar

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  • “It’s not easy to retire at 31. In one respect I was glad I was done. But after a few years of having fun, I got a little restless. When you’re 33, 34, and you don’t have a focus, you can get kind of lost. As a man, you feel a little bit unfulfilled.” -Pete…

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  • “My parents started a business out of the living room of our home and, 30-plus years later, it was a multimillion dollar company. So, President Obama, with all due respect, don’t tell me that my parents didn’t build their business.” -Nikki Haley

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  • “When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.” -Rene Redzepi

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  • “If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it’s best to go for the biggest one. That way you won’t have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect.” -Suzanne Vega

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  • “What’s natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What’s natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system, not killing the system. What’s natural and right is love.” -Susan Powter

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  • “You cannot trust 25 guys in a locker room to have the same respect and training as I do with a weapon. That I do understand. I’ve carried a gun for 10 years. I’ve carried them in the locker room, and nobody really knows about it. I know how to handle myself.” -Luke Scott

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  • “The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.” -Joseph Butler

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  • “Well you know, I have the utmost respect for people like Angelina Jolie and Zoe Saldana in ‘Colombiana. ‘” -Gina Carano

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  • “I try to respect the rules of the silent movies and I tried to make signification to make sense, and also the crew were very good and the fact that we shot in LA in the real Hollywood, studios and houses. We shot in the bed of Mary Pickford, and you cannot be any more…

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  • “My government will respect the will of the people.” -Mwai Kibaki

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  • “Idleness does drive me crazy, but I’d rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.” -Karen Allen

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  • “I’ve discovered that I’ve never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I’m trying to learn – at this late stage in life! – to actually control that.” -Rufus Sewell

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  • “I’ve always had a great respect for the picture business. It’s been good to me.” -Alan Ladd

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  • “Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt.” -John Hench

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  • “But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.” -Omar Bongo

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  • “Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem.” -John Barton

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  • “Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.” -Jay Kay

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  • “In this respect I suppose I’m the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don’t.” -Vladimir Kramnik

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  • “I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I’m worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don’t, I gave it all that I had to this game.” -Rafael Palmeiro

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  • “Freedom goes hand-in-hand with mutual respect.” -Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao

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  • “‘Metals’ has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like I’m growing the muscles I want to grow again.” -Feist

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  • “A man’s respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.” -Adam Clayton

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  • “The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.” -Lakhdar Brahimi

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  • “Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they’re similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it’s performed.” -Chris Ware

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  • “Marriage gives you a new respect for a person.” -Katharine McPhee

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  • “I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places – uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me – I find fault.” -Branch Rickey

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  • “I don’t expect to try to get people to like everything I do. I want them to respect what I do.” -Roger Goodell

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  • “Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he’s been a great vice president. He’s taken on a lot of tough assignments for our administration.” -David Axelrod

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  • “I did work out every day. I needed it to have the endurance to do what needed to be done and not get hurt. I have such a new respect for action stars now.” -Sanaa Lathan

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  • “He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it’s bottled.” -Gene Fowler

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  • “I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.” -Kate Smith

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  • “Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society.” -Mike Rogers

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  • “I believe acting is very physical, and when you have to fight or do those kinds of things, it takes a lot of respect not to allow yourself to go off and hurt yourself or someone else.” -Giancarlo Esposito

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  • “Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.” -Ricardo Montalban

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  • “I still don’t understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood.” -Brendan Fraser

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  • “I definitely think we get a lot of respect for what we do, but I definitely think that some people don’t like us, which is fine.” -Matt Stone

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  • “I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.” -Byron Dorgan

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  • “My goal is to get another 30 years out of this business. So I need to figure out the fuel to do that. And so far, I think it’s respect and quality and company, not celebrity or box office or stardom. It’s not a sprinter’s approach. It’s more like a long-distance thing. You can stick…

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  • “My mission, I guess, has always been the kind of world where lesbian and gay people can celebrate who we are with equal freedom, dignity, and respect.” -John Fisher

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  • “I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don’t know when they sleep.” -Val Kilmer

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  • “I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so.” -Michael Gove

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  • “Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.” -Lafcadio Hearn

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  • “I’m a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people’s decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they’re aware, that they’re…

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  • “I keep it real normal, like I don’t try to act like a celebrity, or say that just because I’m on a TV show I can do other types of TV. I take it very seriously and I respect the art of acting.” -Vinny Guadagnino

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  • “I can remember when I was a baby and my mother was there watching the show. I went and bought 100 episodes and watched them. I respect it so much that the sitcom itself and Ed Norton I’m not playing Ed Norton but my version of it, cause I’m a black man.” -Mike Epps

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  • “Writing for children is bloody difficult books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.” -Mark Haddon

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  • “I always got great respect as a bass player.” -Bill Wyman

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  • “I fear God and respect God and love God.” -Brett Ratner

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  • “The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with…

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  • “With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has passed since that communicated to Congress toward the close of their last session.” -Martin Van Buren

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  • “Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private.” -Bill O’Reilly

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  • “Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility?” -Robert Casey

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  • “In some ways England is more liberal than France, but I also find it more intrusive. But when you go abroad you have to accept the ways of where you live. I have to respect that.” -Arsene Wenger

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  • “In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us.” -Linda Chavez

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  • “I have many friends and family members who have served (or are currently serving) in our nation’s Armed Forces. I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out.” -Karl Malone

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  • “Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that’s a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.” -Ingrid Newkirk

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  • “Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a touch of envy too, because of the solace.” -Studs Terkel

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  • “If you’re lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.” -Frank Langella

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  • “People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost.” -Stephen Breyer

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  • “Not only did I come out as a reality star that was very boisterous and vivacious and outspoken and all those things. I flipped that into money and respect. And a lot of people can’t do that.” -NeNe Leakes

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  • “The language of America changed with the election of Bill Clinton, because with all due respect to my friends on the Republican side, Bill Clinton is the best communicator of the last 50 years. He felt your pain.” -Frank Luntz

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  • “I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father’s respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things.” -James Cameron

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  • “As a chef, you need to respect your guests and their needs. If they decide that they want to eat certain things and not eat others, if for religious reasons or just decide they don’t want to eat certain ingredients, you have to respect that.” -Joel Robuchon

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  • “I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.” -Gael Garcia Bernal

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  • “House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it’s not good at all.” -Chris Lowe

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  • “Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other.” -Lena Horne

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  • “I always watched movies and rooted for the bad guys, you know? I’ve always been that kind of guy. I still hold some respect for criminals that are good at their jobs.” -Justin Townes Earle

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  • “I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.” -Roland Joffe

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  • “I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.” -Georges Duhamel

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  • “We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.” -Hattie McDaniel

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  • “I’m a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves.” -Rachel Roy

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  • “There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.” -Helena Christensen

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  • “On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.” -Vicente Fox

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  • “Everyone at ‘CSI’ has been so great to work with, and so great in terms of scheduling. There’s a real feeling of family on that set… I’ve grown to have so much respect for the cast and crew – they’re been together so many years and still care about the show and each other.” -Elisabeth…

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  • “My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.” -Jared Leto

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  • “It seems I have a hard time being attracted to someone unless I respect what they do on some level. Otherwise, I would feel disdain for them. Which is not always pleasant in a relationship. Sometimes it’s fun though.” -Eric Stoltz

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  • “Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth’s ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.” -Jim Fowler

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  • “I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.” -Amy Tan

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  • “It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.” -Ivan Pavlov

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  • “Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.” -George Best

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  • “Since turning professional at 18, I have travelled the world playing the game that I love and consider myself a global player. As the World No.1 right now, I wish to be a positive role model and a sportsperson that people respect, and enjoy watching.” -Rory McIlroy

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  • “The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.” -Michelle Bachelet

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  • “Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.” -Eudora Welty

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  • “With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.” -Brian Ferneyhough

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  • “I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger and I would say junior institution to the historical antitrust experience of the US.” -Mario Monti

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  • “My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based, instead, on mutual respect, honesty and understanding – concepts many modern liberals should consider revisiting.” -Tammy Bruce

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  • “We have to unclutter our brains from worries that maybe people don’t like us. Women tend to worry about popularity it doesn’t matter if they like you. They need to respect you. They need to show that respect for you in your pay check. And that needs to be okay.” -Mika Brzezinski

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  • “I’m definitely bicoastal, but I have to say, it’s easier to live in New York than in L.A. I feel like people respect other people’s space a bit more here.” -Mary-Kate Olsen

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  • “Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.” -James Broughton

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  • “Shooting a film is like a kismet quest. You have thirty days and you need magic to happen. So that’s why I wear suits. I’m praying to the gods, and I’m doing everything I can to respect the powers of the world.” -Mike Mills

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  • “My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don’t respect you and when they respect you they don’t love you.” -Shakira

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  • “Well, I had an immense respect for Cirque du Soleil when I first say them in the ’80s on a television show and just thought, you know, this group is really reinventing the circus, as you know. Because there wasn’t three rings. There were no animals.” -Criss Angel

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  • “Those people behind the mosque have to respect, have to appreciate and have to defer to the people of New York. The wound is still there. Just because the wound is healing you can’t say, ‘Let’s just go back to where we were pre-9/11.” -Al-Waleed bin Talal

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  • “You have to respect your audience. Without them, you’re essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.” -K. D. Lang

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  • “My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.” -Jay Weatherill

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  • “The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.” -John Charles Polanyi

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  • “There are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I nod my head. Respect.” -Bill Murray

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  • “My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. I’m pointing the finger at us, not at the zombies. I try to respect and sympathize with the zombies as much as possible.” -George A. Romero

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  • “I hate going out in Brighton now. It’s different in London. People respect you more there.” -Katie Price

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  • “I do think that, at one time, being an actress was the equivalent almost of being a prostitute. It garnered roughly the same respect. That’s changed a lot, thank goodness.” -Michelle Pfeiffer

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  • “I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.” -Walter Isaacson

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  • “Teachers have the hardest and most important jobs in America. They’re building our nation. And we should appreciate them, respect them, and pay them well.” -Jim Hunt

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  • “You can’t tell your kids to read if you’re just watching television. They have to see you read. And in that respect, I think it’s important to walk the walk. It’s a wonderful shared time.” -Gary Ross

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  • “My focus is always on the day. What I’ve done behind me, I try to have respect for it, and keep an eye on it, and make sure it isn’t abused, and obviously be thoughtful about it, because it’s all real to me. I’m basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs,…

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  • “I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don’t sell out to the new ones.” -Kathleen Turner

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