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We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
– Nikolai Gogol
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We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
– Marguerite Gardiner
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We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me.
– Donnie Wahlberg
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We need to respect choices that women make.
– Ann Romney
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We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
– Alain de Botton
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We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life. And it's part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11, 2001.
– Michael Bloomberg
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We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.
– Michelle Obama
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We have to unclutter our brains from worries that maybe people don't like us. Women tend to worry about popularity it doesn't matter if they like you. They need to respect you. They need to show that respect for you in your pay check. And that needs to be okay.
– Mika Brzezinski
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We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
– Sir Winston Churchill
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We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.
– Barbara Deming
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We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.
– Kate Mulgrew
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We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to see if we can persuade the Syrian authorities to go, as I say, more in that direction of respect for democracy and human rights.
– William Hague
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We all would like to see a brighter future for Haiti, and I hope this conference will serve to explore many views. Respect for human rights, freedom, and the rule of law must be established in the poorest nation in our hemisphere.
– Eliot Engel
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We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.
– Hattie McDaniel
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Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt.
– John Hench
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Voters don't have to love him, Romney advisers say, but they will respect him.
– Ron Fournier
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Until we respect bin Laden, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary.
– Michael Scheuer
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True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
– Ralph W. Sockman
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Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
– Samuel Johnson
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Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.
– Kiana Tom
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Today's consumers are eager to become loyal fans of companies that respect purposeful capitalism. They are not opposed to companies making a profit indeed, they may even be investors in these companies - but at the core, they want more empathic, enlightened corporations that seek a balance between profit and purpose.
– Simon Mainwaring
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
– Voltaire
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To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate.
– Ariel Sharon
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To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture.
– Anna Deavere Smith
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To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success.
– Hugh Jackman
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To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.
– Dennis Banks
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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
– Stendhal
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To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.
– Timothy Radcliffe
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To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
– Marlene Dietrich
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To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equally, and free of threats.
– Hideki Tojo
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Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments.
– Hideki Tojo
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Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.
– Frank Sinatra
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Those people behind the mosque have to respect, have to appreciate and have to defer to the people of New York. The wound is still there. Just because the wound is healing you can't say, 'Let's just go back to where we were pre-9/11.
– Al-Waleed bin Talal
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This post of President is a Constitutional post. It is the duty of everyone, all citizens to see that they respect the post... the institution of President.
– Pratibha Patil
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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.
– William Lyon Phelps
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This is my job and I respect it enough to concentrate on it.
– Andrew Bogut
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This acting's serious! And I really respect those actors. It's a tough business to be able to be something you're not and be natural and convince people on camera.
– Michael Strahan
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They all matter to me, whether I'm working on a Sam Jackson film for a week or I'm the star of my own TV series - I take it all very seriously, and I have a healthy respect for the work in general, despite the role.
– Anthony Michael Hall
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There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me.
– Joe Biden
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There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters.
– Garth Ennis
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There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It's not that I totally agreed with it, but it was a great piece of art.
– Danny Aiello
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There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.
– Elia Kazan
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There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
– Bertrand Russell
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There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.
– Kenneth Starr
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There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.
– Gertrude Jekyll
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There is a deep affection in Australia for the Queen. And I mean the Queen's been the Queen ever since I was born. I mean she is part of the firmament of Australia's sort of national life there's a deep respect for her role.
– Kevin Rudd
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There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave.
– John Milius
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There are some people whose opinion I value and respect and it would be very bothersome if I forfeited their respect. But the general public? I'm not preoccupied with the opinions of others.
– Conrad Black
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There are some people who become best friends with everyone they photograph. There are people that I really like and admire and respect, but in a way I think it's better to keep a distance. I think you get better pictures of people that you don't know very well.
– Mary Ellen Mark
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There are so many things to think about when you make an album. Like, who am I trying to impress? Am I going to get respect, critical acclaim? Or am I going to sell lots of records?
– Ellie Goulding
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There are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I nod my head. Respect.
– Bill Murray
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There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm to happy being myself.
– James D'arcy
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There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.
– Vanessa Paradis
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The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision.
– Jewel Kilcher
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The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.
– Ralph Chaplin
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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.
– Nat King Cole
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The U.S. military has done a phenomenal job of creating these facilities almost over-night and dealing with these sworn enemies of America with more respect and dignity than they ever would have considered according our officers had they captured any.
– Charles Foster Bass
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The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.
– Ron Silver
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The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland.
– Christian Lous Lange
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The success my children have had has helped me immensely. I've showed them a certain respect for this career.
– Julio Iglesias
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
– Carl Sandburg
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The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.
– John Charles Polanyi
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The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.
– Michelle Bachelet
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The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.
– Omar Sharif
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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.
– Robbie Coltrane
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
– E. M. Forster
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The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.
– Wade Boggs
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The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.
– Jack Henry Abbott
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The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.
– Walter Kaufmann
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The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.
– Gerrit Smith
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The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all.
– Evo Morales
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The more you make fun of yourself and don't try to go for any kind of respect, the more people seem to respect you.
– James Van Der Beek
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The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own.
– Kurt Masur
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The Masters is where I won my first major, and I view this tournament with great respect. After a long and necessary time away from the game, I feel like I'm ready to start my season at Augusta.
– Tiger Woods
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The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.
– Lakhdar Brahimi
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The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States.
– John Ashcroft
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The language of America changed with the election of Bill Clinton, because with all due respect to my friends on the Republican side, Bill Clinton is the best communicator of the last 50 years. He felt your pain.
– Frank Luntz
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The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.
– Dennis Prager
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The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.
– Floyd Abrams
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The first few games that we played against some of the teams, the young guys, you know, want a stick sign or photo sign, and I think that they respect what I have achieved throughout my career.
– Mario Lemieux
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The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.
– John Nelson Darby
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The E.U. is more than just a trade organization or a common market it is a guarantee of democracy, freedom, justice, and human rights. Nations cannot stay in the E.U. if they do not respect these guarantees.
– John Bruton
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The cross is the centre of all this in every respect.
– John Nelson Darby
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The country that owns green, that dominates that industry, is going to have the most energy security, national security, economic security, competitive companies, healthy population and, most of all, global respect.
– Thomas Friedman
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The conqueror is regarded with awe the wise man commands our respect but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
– William Dean Howells
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The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.
– Cristina Saralegui
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The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures - have had a huge impact on me.
– Stella McCartney
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The Bee Gees, to us, was the three brothers. In Maurice's name, we would respect that and not be the Bee Gees anymore.
– Robin Gibb
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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.
– Donald Trump
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The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
– Max Irons
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That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.
– Mike Tyson
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That's the most important thing to me - that if I'm gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give up 14 hours a day for however many weeks or months, then it's very important for me to know that I'm working with people who I respect and enjoy and that we're going for something together.
– Brad Pitt
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Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights, or are used as an excuse for others to do so.
– Anna Lindh
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Teachers have the hardest and most important jobs in America. They're building our nation. And we should appreciate them, respect them, and pay them well.
– Jim Hunt
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
– Ford Frick
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Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.
– Bill Kristol
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Such an arrangement would provide Taiwan and China with a forum for dialogue whereby they may forge closer ties based on mutual understanding and respect, leading to permanent peace in the Taiwan Strait.
– Nick Lampson
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Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too.
– Dave Matthews
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Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.
– David Attenborough
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Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's no music.
– Tracy Morgan
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