Respect Quotes
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Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.
Penn Jillette
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Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
Baltasar Gracian
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I have a lot of respect for people who write a whole book because I've heard it will kill you.
Mary H.K. Choi
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The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I respect those - those are growing pains. Even if you make mistakes, I go back to those things, my not-so-great moments because those are my truest moments; those are my human moments. I'm not even mad at the things I said that were a little dicey.
Nas
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Being gay is not something that defines me. What defines me is what my mom always taught me: to treat everyone with respect, to always be a hard worker, and to be kind.
Adam Rippon
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I have huge respect for Preet Bharara, a great U.S. Attorney by any measure. But even great men can make mistakes.
Jed S. Rakoff
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My family has artists, but they are all working artists. They are not movie stars. They don't get paid. I really respect that blue-collared ideology where they're just trying to make a living.
Emory Cohen
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I have the most utmost respect for the men and women overseas, and I only played a soldier on television. Again, I can only imagine the sacrifices that they make every single day.
Corey Hawkins
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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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It helps me to learn things in different languages, even if it's just phonetically, and to make myself vulnerable to other audiences by trying to reflect back to them the genius of their own cultures, and to do that, oftentimes, in new jazz settings, new arrangements. It's a way to show respect.
Kurt Elling
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I am convinced that in order to move forward, we must say openly to each other the things we hold in our hearts, and that too often are said only behind closed doors. There must be a sustained effort to listen to each other; to learn from each other; to respect one another; and to seek common ground.
Barack Obama
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I'm not an artist that strays away from my fans. Nah, everybody is open to come and talk to me respectfully and I'm going to give them the same respect.
Raekwon
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I respect women that have a voice and use it for a proper reason.
Betty Wright
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Teachers make a difference in individual students' lives, yet they do not get the respect they deserve.
Randi Weingarten
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I'm very, very blessed. But my safety, my privacy, and my respect are three things that I feel like are trying to be taken away from me right now. As a mother I have to speak up and say something. I have to speak up.
Britney Spears
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I just think the mood of the country is now that people don't necessarily want an elected official to tell them how they ought to cast their vote. Matter of fact, it's the opposite, and they want to express themselves, and they have a right to, and I'll respect their choice.
John Cornyn
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Less hate and greedIs what we needAnd more of service true;More men to loveThe flag aboveAnd keep it first in view.Less boast and bragAbout the flag,More faith in what it means;More heads erect,More self-respect,Less talk of war machines.
Edgar Guest
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The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision.
Jewel Kilcher
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American policy makers must understand that the activists and young people who started Yemen’s peaceful revolution deeply respect the United States and Western civilization...We call on American officials to engage with the leaders of Yemen’s democracy movement and abandon their misplaced investment in the old regime’s security apparatus
Tawakkol Karman
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Well, I'm certainly glad that I was nominated for an Oscar. There is certainly a respect that comes with that nod. Also, a compliment that comes with it, too. Not that I really know what I'm doing. In a lot of ways I feel like some child on set, or like a kid that snuck in the back door.
Gabourey Sidibe
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Children are to be respected and I respect them deeply. They've taught me an awful lot.
Fred Rogers
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Success is not necessarily determined by material possessions or accomplishments. You can enjoy success simply by reaching the point where you are perfectly content with your life in every respect and you feel no dissatisfaction or pressing need for anything else. In this sense, you can be a success sitting by yourself in a quiet place contemplating the world.
Brian Tracy
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It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.
Jasmine Guy
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Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show's high standards of professionalism I consider this a tremendous honor that few announcers have ever been treated to. Both Rod's and Johnny's shoes are huge; I can't think about filling them.
Randy West