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Respect Quotes
"Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments."
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"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously."
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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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"Debate, but do not argue. Challenge, but do not force your opinions. To win an argument, but lose a friendship, is a loss. To lose an argument, but retain a friendship, is gain."
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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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"But, you know, sometimes - many - they all understand. That's the nice thing. They were all very happy for me and they understand why I decided to come to CNN. So in that respect, I know that they think it's the best thing for me to do."
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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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"The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and it's really all about them."
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"Alexis, please mind your mouth. Cursing in Russian is still cursing."
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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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"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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"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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"To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred."
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"It's nice to be liked, but it's better to be respected."
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"Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of rank, age, or color."
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"Respect yourself if you would have others respect you."
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"We don't have to go back to my place, Angel. I can take you home, if that's what you want. Or, if you decide you want to sleep at my place, on opposite sides of my bedroom with a Do Not Cross line drawn down the middle, I'll do it. I won't like it, but I'll do it."
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"If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me."
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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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"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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"The concept of dignity of labour took people off the street."
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"I've got too much respect for stand-ups to call myself one."
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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 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 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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"Well, young man, have you found anyone worthy of your respect?'Artemis smiled back. 'Yes,' he said. 'I believe I have."
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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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"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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"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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"She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamored, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realized that there was, after all, something godlike about him. He could control a horse."
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"You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself."
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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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"That was one of the things she loved about him. He assumed she could walk and chew gum at the same time. He never second-guessed her, and he didn't try to change her. He accepted."
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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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"The First Mobile, if one is sent, must be warned that unless he is very self-assured, or senile, his pride will suffer. A man wants his virility regarded, a woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. On Winter they will not exist. One is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience."
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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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"Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training, it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit."
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"Old ones should respect the energy of youths and youths should respect the experience of old ones."
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