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 think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the workings of destiny, and the limitations that people can find themselves in through no fault of their own.” -Elizabeth Gilbert

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  • “I have no problem going on record with this and probably have gone on record with this before, there aren’t that many people who I respect. There just aren’t.” -Marc Jacobs

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  • “I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can’t afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.” -Andrew Cuomo

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  • “I’m not gonna say that I hate it, because I really respect Usher and I was influenced by him. But so many people compare me to him, and I don’t think it’ll ever stop. I just want to be my own artist.” -Chris Brown

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  • “Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.” -Georg Simmel

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  • “I’m a scientist, not a theologian. I don’t know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith.” -James Lovelock

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  • “If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.” -Robert Schumann

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  • “There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that they’re entitled to. They deserve, in my judgment, partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration.” -John Edwards

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  • “I’m always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.” -Jane Goodall

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  • “The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.” -Shimon Peres

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  • “That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.” -Timothy Garton Ash

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  • “Facts matter. Science matters. Reason matters. Mitt Romney has shown an inability to respect any of the three. President Barack Obama not only respects them, he relies on them. He is an overwhelming and unquestioned choice to continue as president.” -Eliot Spitzer

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  • “I’m not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don’t get it right or don’t respect others’ needs.” -Colin Firth

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  • “To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.” -Otto von Bismarck

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  • “I feel like everybody is against Floyd Mayweather. I don’t get any respect.” -Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

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  • “It’s nice to know that people appreciate and respect you.” -Marcel Carne

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  • “If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.” -Maimonides

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  • “The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.” -Edward R. Murrow

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  • “Most young people have tremendous respect for older people’s views.” -Dennis Prager

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  • “I’ve got too much respect for stand-ups to call myself one.” -Johnny Vegas

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  • “From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.” -Sachin Tendulkar

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  • “As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: ‘This is me playing this character. And aren’t I fantastic!’ I don’t feel that so much now.” -Kristin Scott Thomas

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  • “All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays… a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.” -Jesse Ventura

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  • “I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.”…

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  • “My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism.” -Tony Blair

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  • “I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.” -Sophia Bush

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  • “I’ve an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women – my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.” -Cate Blanchett

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  • “If you don’t stand for something, how can anyone respect what you do?” -Miranda Lambert

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  • “Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride’s attendants.” -Vera Wang

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  • “Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can…

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  • “If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.” -Thomas Cochrane

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  • “If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don’t want to open up my cornflakes and find that they’re full of pebbles… You need to respect the reader enough…

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  • “Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.” -James Brown

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  • “I adore adverbs they are the only qualifications I really much respect.” -Henry James

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  • “Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren’t aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.” -David Attenborough

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  • “I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.” -Carlos Ghosn

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  • “Give your teachers the respect they deserve, because they are the ones who can help you get where you need to go.” -Richard Howard

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  • “I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I’ve always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my…

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  • “Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful – to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.” -Thorstein Veblen

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  • “In the sense that you’re not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised my position doesn’t isn’t unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.” -Peter Singer

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  • “I met Jesse Owens once. He was a remarkable individual, and I have tremendous respect for what he did in the Olympics under the circumstances.” -Lee Trevino

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  • “There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.” -Herbert Hoover

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  • “I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they’re really difficult to write and write well.” -Rashida Jones

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  • “I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.” -Joni Mitchell

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  • “Where defining foreign policy as ‘ethical’ went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.” -William Hague

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  • “A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.” -Robert Stack

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  • “This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.” -William Lyon Phelps

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  • “I have so much respect for my mom and all the women across the world.” -Jessica Simpson

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  • “You totally value and respect your body as you get older.” -Jenny McCarthy

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  • “But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.” -Kathy Ireland

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  • “You should be able to voice your opinion and respect the voice of the other side. You should be willing to educate yourself and know what it is you’re dealing with.” -Steve Nash

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  • “Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.” -Norman Cousins

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  • “When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.” -Jackie Chan

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  • “People are giving me more respect.” -Christina Ricci

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  • “Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.” -Abbie Hoffman

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  • “Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it’s not because I’m a hero.” -Ani DiFranco

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  • “Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.” -Gordon B. Hinckley

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  • “Voters don’t have to love him, Romney advisers say, but they will respect him.” -Ron Fournier

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  • “The conqueror is regarded with awe the wise man commands our respect but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.” -William Dean Howells

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  • “A woman’s experience is different from a man’s in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.” -Carly Fiorina

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  • “What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is.” -Maurice Sendak

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  • “I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.” -Charles de Gaulle

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  • “I want to say a little something that’s long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end.” -Adam Yauch

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  • “Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.” -Jane Addams

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  • “I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.” -Neil Gaiman

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  • “The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.” -Ralph Chaplin

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  • “In finding love, I think it’s important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it’s important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take.” -Kina Grannis

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  • “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.” -Pope Benedict XVI

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  • “My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.” -Rick Wakeman

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  • “Do dirt, get dirt. So I treat people with the same respect that I want.” -DMX

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  • “So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I’ve got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are.” -Tony Campolo

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  • “Awe and respect are two different things.” -Oliver Reed

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  • “A man’s real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.” -Joseph Conrad

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  • “There’s one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and – I’m going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself – I think most respect me.” -Joe Biden

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  • “I work with people I admire and respect. It’s never because of who they are.” -Alexander McQueen

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  • “What society doesn’t realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don’t now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.” -Doris Lessing

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  • “People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.” -David Duchovny

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  • “As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.” -Anthony Trollope

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  • “I’ve spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I’d give two cheers for the Monarchy.” -Sting

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  • “Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.” -William Cobbett

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  • “I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled – all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you – stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.” -Anne Lamott

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  • “When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.” -J. B. Priestley

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  • “When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.” -Herodotus

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  • “I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it’s tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.” -Mike Krzyzewski

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  • “Gymnastics taught me everything – life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.” -Shawn Johnson

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  • “A police force, wherever they are, is made up of amazing people, and I respect them a great deal.” -Nancy McKeon

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  • “We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That’s life. And it’s part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance…

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  • “A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.” -Elizabeth Blackwell

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  • “At the time of Polaroid – and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff – at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing.” -Jim Henson

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  • “I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America’s most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit – audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.” -Camille Paglia

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  • “I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don’t have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?” -Shailene Woodley

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  • “Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.” -William Jennings Bryan

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  • “Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we’re gone.” -William J. Clinton

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  • “I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect.” -Julie Andrews

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  • “At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.” -Herman Melville

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  • “Another thing that’s pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.” -Kevyn Aucoin

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  • “Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.” -David Brainerd

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  • “But it’s important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated.” -Anna Quindlen

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  • “You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that’s fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.” -Steffi Graf

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  • “What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.” -Yoko Ono

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  • “I just want to work, and learn from people I respect and admire.” -Sienna Miller

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  • “The Rooneys are very classy. They’re very deliberate with their decision-making. Once you’re part of that family, Steeler nation, they treat you with respect. You don’t have a lot of rambunctious players running around.” -Tony Dorsett

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  • “Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day.” -Tom Hanks

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  • “He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.” -Thomas Szasz

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  • “Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.” -Francesca Annis

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  • “Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.” -Zachary Quinto

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  • “It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.” -Harvey Milk

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  • “You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don’t just try to come in and take somebody else’s life.” -Elizabeth Edwards

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  • “A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they’re really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.” -Jena Malone

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  • “One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.” -E. W. Howe

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  • “I’ve always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden’s animations.” -Stephen Fry

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  • “The companies that survive longest are the one’s that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.” -Charles Handy

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  • “I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.” -Mark Ruffalo

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  • “Mankind’s true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.” -Milan Kundera

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  • “I don’t regret anything I ever do or say. I don’t like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you’re honest.” -Eva Longoria

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  • “By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.” -Horace Walpole

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  • “Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.” -Sydney Smith

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  • “If I respect myself and believe in what I’m doing, no one can touch me.” -Fiona Apple

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  • “Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.” -Thucydides

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  • “I really hope my peers appreciate and respect what I’m doing.” -Shania Twain

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  • “Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.” -Sandra Day O’Connor

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  • “Today’s consumers are eager to become loyal fans of companies that respect purposeful capitalism. They are not opposed to companies making a profit indeed, they may even be investors in these companies – but at the core, they want more empathic, enlightened corporations that seek a balance between profit and purpose.” -Simon Mainwaring

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  • “I don’t have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.” -R. Lee Ermey

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  • “Acting is something I love. It’s a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don’t think it’s any greater challenge than teaching 8-year-olds or any other career. In my life, I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the…

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  • “Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.” -Eartha Kitt

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  • “The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.” -Igor Stravinsky

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  • “All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.” -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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  • “When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.” -Louis Pasteur

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  • “I’m a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect.” -Katy Perry

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  • “A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.” -David Hume

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  • “I really don’t spend any time on the Internet, so I guess I live a little under a rock in that respect.” -Christina Aguilera

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  • “I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.” -Shia LaBeouf

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  • “I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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  • “I will have to earn trust and respect from my kids.” -Tiger Woods

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  • “Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.” -Will Cuppy

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  • “If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.” -Denis Diderot

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  • “Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they’ll say, ‘God, he said exactly what I was thinking.’ And when they begin to respect you, they’ll follow you to the death.” -Lee Iacocca

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  • “Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.” -Ellen Barkin

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  • “I’m free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don’t try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don’t compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.” -Erykah Badu

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  • “Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.” -Nathaniel Branden

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  • “I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.” -Christopher Hitchens

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  • “If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn’t allow that person to stay in my world.” -Gabrielle Union

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  • “The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.” -John Stuart Mill

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  • “There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.” -J. B. Priestley

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  • “I looked at some of the statues of Jesus they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents.” -Cat Stevens

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  • “I got all the respect in the world for the front-runners in this race, but ask yourself: If we replace a Democratic insider with a Republican insider, you think we’re really going to change Washington, D.C.? You don’t have to settle for Washington and Wall Street insiders who supported the Wall Street bailout and the…

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  • “I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.” -Emma Bunton

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  • “You can’t buy back your respect you can’t buy back your career. You only get one, so I don’t want to mess that up.” -Shia LaBeouf

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  • “Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.” -Luther Campbell

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  • “It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics , to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family – and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.” -John Major

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  • “Respect for another man’s opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.” -Sargent Shriver

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  • “When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.” -LeBron James

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  • “Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.” -Yousef Munayyer

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  • “Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.” -William Hazlitt

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  • “My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn’t want to ruin their happiness – even if that happiness is ignorance.” -Katy Perry

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  • “Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.” -Gary Ryan Blair

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  • “No matter how popular you are as a stand-up – you can go out and fill a 10,000-seat arena and be smart and funny – it’s delicate to host an awards show and know where your place is and know that it’s not about you, that it’s about the people who are nominated, and respect…

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  • “I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don’t like to be treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect.” -Sharon Stone

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  • “I don’t believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it’s wrong. I don’t have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don’t have that much respect for Bush. He’s about war, I’m not about war – a lot of people aren’t about war.” -Avril Lavigne

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  • “More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.” -Simone Weil

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  • “Don’t tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won’t respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, ‘Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.’.” -Joan Rivers

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  • “I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.” -Wilson Mizner

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  • “Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one’s parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.” -Alice Miller

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  • “Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.” -Barry Bonds

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  • “I deserve respect for the things I did not do.” -Dan Quayle

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  • “I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you’re well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they’re used to seeing me walking around, so I don’t think I’m a very big deal.” -J. K. Rowling

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  • “We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.” -Davy Crockett

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  • “I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people’s religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.” -Newt Gingrich

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  • “I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.” -Everett Dirksen

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  • “I certainly respect other people’s opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.” -Charles Stanley

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  • “As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere – it is a lonely place. It’s an isolated city in that respect because you’re driving to places alone listening to the radio.” -Jason Schwartzman

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  • “I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.” -June Jordan

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  • “Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.” -Samuel Johnson

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  • “Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.” -Jane Austen

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  • “Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another’s place.” -Neil Kurshan

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  • “I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts – spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back – length of life.” -Rose Kennedy

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  • “Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.” -Gamaliel Bailey

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  • “May the God of your choice bless and keep you. I respect Him as long as He does not circumcise me anymore.” -Kinky Friedman

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  • “I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.” -Taylor Swift

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  • “It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.” -John W. Gardner

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