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 leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished.” -Christiane Amanpour

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  • “I respect the president. He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help the country we both love. But the question each of us wants the voters to answer is who will be the better president, not who is the better American.” -Jon Huntsman, Jr.

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  • “I’m getting my respect as a video director. The fashion industry respects me and knows who I am.” -ASAP Rocky

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  • “I’m not religious, but I believe that what I have is a gift, and I respect it and live up to it.” -Sugar Ray Leonard

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  • “Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.” -Christian Lous Lange

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  • “He’s a legend and I respect his work, so I went down and paid my respects when Charlton was on the set. He was nice but I think he lied a little. He said it was an honour to be in a movie with me, but I don’t believe it.” -Mark Wahlberg

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  • “No, it’s interesting to remake a film for the contemporary audience today. I think it’s a good idea it needs to respect the original idea. Don’t just take the title and change everything else.” -Dario Argento

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  • “Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes.” -Werner Herzog

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  • “Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.” -Frank Herbert

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  • “I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.” -Robert Wyatt

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  • “Whenever I go out, so many people who respect me ask me what to do in a certain situation. A lot of times, I didn’t know the answers because sometimes I was going through the same sort of thing. But then later on, I would think of things that people told me.” -Patti LaBelle

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  • “Respect talent. Get respect where respect is due, but don’t be caught up in yourself where you do things obliviously and not pay attention to what is going on.” -Robert Griffin III

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  • “The relationship between the government of the United States and social and indigenous movements has always been difficult. Not just in Bolivia but worldwide. We need to have bilateral relations characterized by mutual respect.” -Evo Morales

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  • “I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.” -Darrell Royal

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  • “We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority.” -King Hussein I

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  • “Respect and affection for animals, particularly those who share our homes, recognize no geographic borders.” -Nick Clooney

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  • “I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person.” -Eric Braeden

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  • “I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn’t have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.” -Mary Wesley

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  • “I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.” -Queen Elizabeth II

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  • “We don’t do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a love of God and a love and respect for themselves and all people. I believe they will have a chance.” -Anita Baker

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  • “In order to gain the respect of your players in the locker room, you can’t just perform on Saturday. You have to do it consistently during practices, meetings, and in the weight room.” -Junior Seau

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  • “We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our values and not merely our weapons.” -Theodore C. Sorensen

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  • “I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.” -Walter Annenberg

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  • “There is a deep affection in Australia for the Queen. And I mean the Queen’s been the Queen ever since I was born. I mean she is part of the firmament of Australia’s sort of national life there’s a deep respect for her role.” -Kevin Rudd

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  • “I was not afraid of the press or the militants. It was uncomfortable, but I was not afraid. With respect to the press, I knew I knew more than they knew about city matters. With respect to the militants, I understood it. I mean, everybody believed in those days that they were being screwed, you…

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  • “The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one. A Stanford study showed that those who saw a photo of their future self made smarter financial decisions.” -A. J. Jacobs

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  • “I haven’t had an orthodox career, and I’ve wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn’t feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can’t deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!” -Sally Field

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  • “I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He’s the biggest. He’s like an Elvis in this business, but no, he’s never been the rebel.” -Waylon Jennings

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  • “I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others.” -Blanche Lincoln

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  • “There are some people whose opinion I value and respect and it would be very bothersome if I forfeited their respect. But the general public? I’m not preoccupied with the opinions of others.” -Conrad Black

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  • “The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.” -Wade Boggs

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  • “There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don’t necessarily want to be like them. I’m to happy being myself.” -James D’arcy

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  • “I’ll work with a director if I think I’m going to get into a comfortable situation, and if it’s someone I respect and who respects me, even if they’re not so well known. Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best.” -Robert De Niro

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  • “You can’t respect yourself if you’re afraid to be who you are.” -Amber Heard

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  • “Managers have very tough jobs. I always respected their job but demanded respect in return.” -Jim Evans

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  • “As an actor, you really want to respect and honor the script. You want to try to be in the moment and you also realize that you’re one part of a bigger picture and when they call action, you have your dance.” -Carrie-Anne Moss

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  • “In England, with all due respect, we have some of the plainest actresses in the entire world as our greatest.” -Minnie Driver

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  • “I respect the office of the president.” -Jan Brewer

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  • “The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.” -Johann Kaspar Lavater

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  • “Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.” -Joseph Ratzinger

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  • “Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too.” -Dave Matthews

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  • “People respect you more if you just play and blow something out than if you take the easier road. That’s how we think. You get more respect and people play harder for you. Just play till you blow it. Just play till it goes.” -Terry Bradshaw

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  • “I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.” -Kenneth Robert Livingstone

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  • “Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most.” -Ethel Merman

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  • “I want there to be a level of respect between everybody.” -Kenny Chesney

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  • “How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?” -Mary Astell

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  • “The beliefs I was raised with – to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures – have had a huge impact on me.” -Stella McCartney

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  • “I’m a person that doesn’t have that many goals or plans. I feel like I’m the wind and I blow through life it’s whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I’m happy and I embrace it.” -Bai Ling

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  • “The Bee Gees, to us, was the three brothers. In Maurice’s name, we would respect that and not be the Bee Gees anymore.” -Robin Gibb

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  • “I have a new found respect for women who have been through breast cancer and this surgery.” -Giuliana Rancic

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  • “I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.” -Todd Barry

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  • “I understand the Second Amendment. I respect the Second Amendment. I think we need to use common sense tools to keep the American people safe, to keep our streets safe.” -Eric Holder

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  • “To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.” -Barbara Boxer

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  • “Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.” -Bill Nighy

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  • “To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.” -Dennis Banks

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  • “In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.” -Jonathan Krohn

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  • “I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.” -John Major

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  • “All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have had long careers is that there is a sort of mystery about them. You don’t know what they do on Friday nights when they go home from work. You have no clue. You have this sort of fantasy…

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  • “In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don’t know if I’d like to make myself worse in that respect.” -Nigella Lawson

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  • “I don’t want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.” -Vince Carter

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  • “I dress up a certain way because I respect the music.” -Wynton Marsalis

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  • “I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn’t have to talk about it.” -Randy Harrison

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  • “Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.” -Bainbridge Colby

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  • “It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.” -Tahar Ben Jelloun

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  • “I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It’s that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I’ve done before because that keeps me awake. That’s why I want to be an actor – I don’t want to play endless variations…

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  • “To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate.” -Ariel Sharon

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  • “I look up to Mick Jagger because he’s an amazing performer and he’s such an individual. I respect him and admire him eternally.” -Victoria Justice

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  • “One thing that I feel very, very strongly is that we talk about Islamic countries, Islamic people, Islamic leaders, as either moderates or extremists. It’s almost like there are only two categories of Muslims. And actually, that doesn’t show respect. It shows lack of understanding of the diversity of Muslim thought.” -David Miliband

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  • “Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.” -Wislawa Szymborska

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  • “I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I’m quite camp in that respect.” -Jenny Eclair

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  • “Somebody who’s really comfortable with who she is and doesn’t care what other people think. I like women who are really strong and were brought up to be comfortable with themselves and respect themselves.” -Brian Austin Green

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  • “I don’t have to participate in another culture’s ceremonies in order to respect that culture.” -Sherman Alexie

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  • “The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision.” -Jewel

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  • “I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn.” -Maurice Strong

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  • “I don’t think I look up to any players. Obviously you respect everyone.” -Wayne Rooney

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  • “My mom was a teacher – I have the greatest respect for the profession – we need great teachers – not poor or mediocre ones.” -Condoleezza Rice

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  • “I always remember having a healthy respect for my grandmother.” -Prince William

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  • “If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.” -Billie Jean King

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  • “I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.” -Charles Schumer

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  • “I think I’ve earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency.” -Curt Schilling

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  • “In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.” -Ravi Shankar

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  • “I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama’s historic achievement to become his party’s nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.” -Mike Huckabee

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  • “I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think.” -Leo Burnett

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  • “You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.” -Cory Booker

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  • “In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.” -Emanuel Swedenborg

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  • “There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.” -Vanessa Paradis

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  • “I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can’t do 10 or 15 takes. It’s all live. It’s like life in motion.” -Puff Daddy

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  • “In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.” -Jeff Goodell

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  • “The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect.” -Bill Frist

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  • “Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.” -Horst Koehler

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  • “As a politician, you have to deal with someone wanting you to fail every day. I think I prefer being in a situation where generally people are rooting for me, and if they aren’t rooting for me, they aren’t out there to see my downfall. I respect the people who have the stomach for it.”…

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  • “Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.” -Eldridge Cleaver

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  • “I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.” -Mikhail Bakunin

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  • “Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.” -George Bancroft

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  • “The country that owns green, that dominates that industry, is going to have the most energy security, national security, economic security, competitive companies, healthy population and, most of all, global respect.” -Thomas Friedman

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  • “You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you’re an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party… My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.” -Gary Vaynerchuk

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  • “We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people, change course, and commit to making the changes they are demanding. To the extent he is willing to do this, we are ready to work with him.” -John Boehner

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  • “It’s easy to see why pitchers respect McGwire. If you hit behind him, they’re saying that they don’t respect you. You have to change their thinking.” -Eric Davis

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  • “Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.” -Talcott Parsons

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  • “It’s hard for women who make a lot of money and make decisions all day long, then they have to come home and be ‘Stupid Sally.’ Men need respect, and they need to know that they can lead in the relationship, so even if they don’t make the most money they need to be able…

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  • “With respect to the environment in our state and our state’s future – in addition to water which is very important here – I think it is crucial for him to make a sincere commitment to energy efficiency, fuel efficiency, by helping us to produce those cars of the future.” -Jennifer Granholm

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  • “I have a lot of respect for marriage.” -Dominic Monaghan

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  • “Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world.” -John Polkinghorne

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  • “I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.” -Roger Nash Baldwin

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  • “One’s nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect and all nations have honorable place in the world’s family.” -Paul Harris

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  • “Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.” -Pierre de Coubertin

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  • “It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything.” -John Bacon

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  • “I respect someone’s right to privacy and I want them to know it.” -Terry Gross

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  • “We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.” -Zinedine Zidane

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  • “I think it’s important for artists to work together. It’s great for fans to see, like, Ludacris came out to our show in Atlanta and kinda made a surprise appearance there, it shows a mutual respect for what each other does.” -Jason Aldean

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  • “To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after – there’s a strong respect for that in African culture.” -Anna Deavere Smith

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  • “It’s a paradox to be an actress, living in the city, taking planes all the time, trying to find the right balance in this life, which is not so eco-friendly, and still try to respect the environment.” -Marion Cotillard

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  • “We need to have a pro-growth policy put in place that offers people hope and offers the opportunity for businesses to expand and for them to have confidence in what the world is going to look like for the next two or three or four years with respect to economic policy.” -Dick Cheney

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  • “The United Nations will be at the heart of our international activities. France will assume its full responsibilities at the Security Council by putting its status at the service of peace, respect for human rights and development.” -Francois Hollande

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  • “I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don’t get very much approbation for it.” -Joan Collins

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  • “Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities.” -Alcee Hastings

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  • “My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.” -Milo Ventimiglia

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  • “That’s the most important thing to me – that if I’m gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give up 14 hours a day for however many weeks or months, then it’s very important for me to know that I’m working with people who I respect and enjoy and that we’re going…

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  • “I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.” -Dave Eggers

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  • “I have respect for what other people believe. What I believe in my own life is that it’s a search for how I can do things better, whether it’s being a better man or a better father or finding ways for myself to improve.” -Tom Cruise

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  • “I still think that movies are amazing I respect actors and directors.” -Joaquin Phoenix

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  • “There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors… and that is their competitive sense.” -Elia Kazan

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  • “Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.” -Robert Dale Owen

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  • “The thing about Republicans is that they don’t care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.” -Jane Smiley

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  • “I don’t think there’s anything they can say about me that I haven’t said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other we have fun together – it’s…

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  • “We’ve become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn’t exist now.” -Radha Mitchell

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  • “You couldn’t pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people’s problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense.” -Christopher Meloni

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  • “If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old – somebody who takes good care of things and of people.” -Connie Nielsen

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  • “Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult.” -Mohamed ElBaradei

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  • “Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever – stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave.” -Jeffrey Kluger

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  • “You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who will hopefully become the mother of your kids. America needs to get back to family values.” -Martin Lawrence

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  • “There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.” -Norman Douglas

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  • “Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress’s decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials.” -William J. Brennan, Jr.

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  • “A child is owed the greatest respect if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don’t ignore your son’s tender years.” -Juvenal

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  • “I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.” -Theodore Bikel

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  • “It’s difficult to love someone you don’t respect, which is hard to remember when you’re having an argument.” -Mehmet Oz

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  • “I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs.” -Gwyneth Paltrow

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  • “Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.” -A. N. Wilson

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  • “I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.” -Ted Allen

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  • “Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.” -George Soros

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  • “The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha’s atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.” -Walter Kaufmann

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  • “I just feel like if I do good work, then people should respect me for the work I do.” -Scott Caan

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  • “Renown? I’ve already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.” -Jean Rostand

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  • “There is no excuse for perjury – never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.” -Kenneth Starr

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  • “We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.” -Arthur Ashe

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  • “I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I…

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  • “I have always admired and had enormous respect for Elizabeth Taylor. She was not only an incredible actress but an amazing woman as well.” -Lindsay Lohan

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  • “When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.” -John Gray

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  • “We need to respect choices that women make.” -Ann Romney

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  • “Yes I have made a lot of money and I have a lot of respect, my films have done well, and I know there are loads of loads of people who look up to me and really love me. I really just thought this is like a strange dream. I have never thought this is…

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  • “Being a monarchist – saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another – is just as warped and strange as being a racist.” -Julie Burchill

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  • “I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today’s environment. And I know full well that when I’ve been covering campaigns, which I still do, I’ve made my mistakes and have been far from perfect.” -Dan Rather

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  • “I have respect for beer.” -Russell Crowe

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  • “In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.” -Giacomo Casanova

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  • “I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I’m not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect.” -Shirley Manson

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  • “If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.” -Harold Pinter

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  • “I’ve got no respect for any young man who won’t join the colors.” -Nathan Bedford Forrest

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  • “I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life.” -Alicia Keys

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  • “Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship we have to respect its traditions and its rules.” -Jack Nicklaus

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  • “All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.” -Al Pacino

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  • “When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.” -Loretta Lynn

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  • “Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.” -U Thant

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  • “Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in say much about you. Your treatment of and respect for money, how you make it, and how you spend it, reflect your character.” -Gary Ryan Blair

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  • “I respect country music because I feel like it’s more about the talent and the songwriting and I put on a big show and we have a lot of stuff, but I feel confident in myself enough as an artist and a singer that I can have all of those fun toys and know that…

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  • “I contribute my best in my sport and I also have a ton of respect for myself and my family.” -Venus Williams

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  • “There are so many things to think about when you make an album. Like, who am I trying to impress? Am I going to get respect, critical acclaim? Or am I going to sell lots of records?” -Ellie Goulding

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  • “Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one’s wishes.” -Nikita Khrushchev

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  • “Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music – look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.” -Bruce Springsteen

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  • “Coaches will eventually notice a great attitude, and they respect that.” -Heather O’Reilly

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  • “Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn’t want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.” -Gil Scott-Heron

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  • “Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don’t even have to like your music. If you’re big enough, people are drawn to you.” -Jay-Z

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  • “Picasso is a character that has pursued me for a long time and I always rejected. He deserves a lot of respect because I am from Malaga, and I was born four blocks from where he was born.” -Antonio Banderas

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  • “I have no confidence issues with the impact or the quality of the music. No one in hip-hop, before this point and to this point, with all due respect, has done this.” -Mos Def

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  • “I’ve had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains.” -Jerry Lewis

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  • “Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in synagogue. We recite a special blessing on seeing the Queen.” -Jonathan Sacks

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  • “Let them hate me, provided they respect my conduct.” -Tiberius

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  • “I’ve been involved with violent movies, and then I’ve also said at a certain point, ‘I can’t take it anymore. Please cut it.’ You know, you’ve got to respect the filmmaker, and it’s a really tough issue.” -Harvey Weinstein

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  • “I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it’s like, she didn’t care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot.” -Britney Spears

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  • “Like I said, I’ve got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn’t mean you can’t support them emotionally and financially.” -Sylvester Stallone

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  • “Cheerleaders deserve a lot of respect for what they do.” -Ashley Tisdale

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