939 private quotes tagged respect

“I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.” — J. D. Salinger

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“May the God of your choice bless and keep you. I respect Him as long as He does not circumcise me anymore.” — Kinky Friedman

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“Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.” — Amy Grant

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“Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.” — Neil Kurshan

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“I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do.” — Katy Perry

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“In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.” — Salvador Dali

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“The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.” — Andy Rooney

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“I have always admired and had enormous respect for Elizabeth Taylor. She was not only an incredible actress but an amazing woman as well.” — Lindsay Lohan

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“I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.” — Orson Welles

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“As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.” — Vera Wang

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“My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even if that happiness is ignorance.” — Katy Perry

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“As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.” — Anthony Trollope

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“The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.” — Joseph Butler

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“It's hard for women who make a lot of money and make decisions all day long, then they have to come home and be 'Stupid Sally.' Men need respect, and they need to know that they can lead in the relationship, so even if they don't make the most money they need to be able to call the shots.” — Patti Stanger

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“As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.” — Jason Schwartzman

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“I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life.” — Alicia Keys

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“We need to have a pro-growth policy put in place that offers people hope and offers the opportunity for businesses to expand and for them to have confidence in what the world is going to look like for the next two or three or four years with respect to economic policy.” — Dick Cheney

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“I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.” — Theodore Bikel

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“I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.” — Dave Eggers

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“I've never met a person who has more integrity than my husband. I respect that. There's his humor and intelligence, too, and he's really cute, all those things - but if you don't respect your partner, you'll get sick of him.” — Michelle Pfeiffer

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“If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.” — Connie Nielsen

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“I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.” — Sophia Bush

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“I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.” — Mikhail Bakunin

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“The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.” — Carl Levin

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“I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.” — Cate Blanchett

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