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Respect Quotes
"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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"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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"In countries other than Pakistan - I won't necessarily call them 'Western' - people support me. This is because people there respect others. They don't do this because I am a Pashtun or a Punjabi, a Pakistani, or an Iranian, they do it because of one's words and character. This is why I am being respected and supported there."
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"If I am still doing what I'm doing and I still have respect in this town, haven't done anything completely and utterly stupid, then I'll be happy with myself."
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"We can disagree with one another without being raging, judgmental, spiteful, self-righteous lunatics. Can't we?"
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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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"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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"Why spend your time fighting to make a damaging reality work? Be willing to move on from the people and situations that don't serve your heart. You are capable of creating relationships and circumstances rooted in respect, equality and love. But you have to believe you deserve them."
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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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"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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"If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me."
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"I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect."
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"I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity."
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"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously."
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"Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments."
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"If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly."
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"I've got too much respect for stand-ups to call myself one."
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"The cross is the centre of all this in every respect."
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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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"He scowled at Jason. "And please, I don't like being touched. Don't ever grab me again."
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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 have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries."
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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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"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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"You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect."
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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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"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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"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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"Never disregard people, regardless of their beliefs, because we all carry God's likeness."
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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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"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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"A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience to being served like a king."
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"Some people respect some people only because some people respect them."
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"Respect... is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique."
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