"I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity."

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"I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity."

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"Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity."

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"I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem."

Booker T. Washington, American Educator

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"Then he was sorry for the great fish... How many people will he feed?.. But are they worthy to eat him? No, of course, not. There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity."

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"I don't beg for those things which can be earned."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll."

Sting, British Musician

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"You need to work even if it is a menial or dirty job, because every job is participating in the process of creation."

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"Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity."

Ricardo Montalban, Mexican Actor

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"Dignity high station or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men in order to keep the younger at a distance who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age."

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"I left the room with silent dignity, but caught my foot in the mat."

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