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Respect Quotes
"To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred."
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"If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill."
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"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not."
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"I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me."
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"I had a lot of respect for Biggie, and it was just a weird, kinda difficult thing. When I'm doing touchy interviews like that, I just try to be fair to both parties."
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"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously."
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"Mexico takes a hard line on immigration, demanding that visitors to her shores enter lawfully, and show her respect during their stay."
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"Consistently turning up for meetings late, is a statement saying you have no respect for the person you are meeting or for the purpose of the meeting, or both. You are sending a clear message that this person or the reason for your meeting is not important to you."
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"Other times you can get showy for three minutes, and that's OK with certain films. But that isn't right with an Ang Lee movie, you have to fit right in. You have to understand Ang, respect him and be part of the team and not be in charge of it - he is in charge of it."
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"The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things."
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"If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that."
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"You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself."
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"Only with the honour thus acquired can we earn the respect of our other compatriots as well."
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"I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket."
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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."
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"To be respected, respect others."
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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."
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"I'm at the stage of life when if a girl says no to me I'm profoundly grateful to her."
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"Respect yourself if you would have others respect you."
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"When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title."
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"If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me."
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"The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi. We've spent billions of dollars already with respect to the Arab League. Billions of dollars, because they told us to do it. Why aren't they paying for it? They don't like Qaddafi, Qaddafi's been a terrible thorn in their side."
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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."
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"For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds."
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"Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments."
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"He scowled at Jason. "And please, I don't like being touched. Don't ever grab me again."
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"What we learned quite early on is what was really important to early British pop that we produced-and this is where we were distinct from almost everybody else in this respect-is that it had to reflect exactly what the audience wanted us to say."
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"Alexis, please mind your mouth. Cursing in Russian is still cursing."
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"I've got too much respect for stand-ups to call myself one."
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"I think she looked at Vivien the same way. Of course you can. You know. And, and yet with great respect, because she knew how hard it must have been. And that it was even harder for him, of course, than for her."
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"I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect."
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"I don't think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band."
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"I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don't respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air."
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"In some cases, I am able to respect what so many call bigots. Such people have a more solid foundation for drawing their lines when it comes to the security of their ways and quite possibly the security of mankind. They rely on something that has worked to get man this far without placing ideals blindly driven by emotion first; they have a sure line and they say, 'No.' That, in a sense, is something I find to be highly respectable."
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"Do not instigate or treat any of your employees, working at your place, with contempt. Treat everyone with respect. You never know what benefit a person will bring."
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"To belittle, you have to be little."
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"Never disregard people, regardless of their beliefs, because we all carry God's likeness."
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"Another consequence of not knowing the value of what you possess in this case the value of life is that, there would be some other people around you that will better understand what you possess."
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"What is absolute humility (param vinaya)? It is on the one who has not disrespected anyone in the slightest! Absolute humility lies where there is no dispute, no difference of opinion or any law. Law is bondage."
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