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respect

The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When youve got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things. – Nat King Cole

I cant predict the future and I dont have respect for people who try to. – Jackie Mason

I respect music, I do. I love it. – Youssou NDour

My father used to tell me about how musicians dont have respect from people and he was afraid about my future. – Youssou NDour

I respect the people who buy my records and come to my concerts. Its only fair that I always try to give them the very best thats in me. After all, I need them more than they need me. – Andy Gibb

I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal – in this case, the ideal of the pirate – and then becomes something thats more radical, more exciting, more subversive than a pirate could ever be. – Will Oldham

I think its great that shes not perfect and wasnt perfect. I think thats maybe why so many young girls and different people look up to Mac and respect her even more. – Catherine Bell

Im so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions. – Bjorn Ulvaeus

I was raised Jewish, my wife was raised Catholic. Though we respect each others heritage, and while many of our friends are deeply religious, we have chosen to focus on our similarities, not our differences. We teach our children compassion, charity, honesty and the benefits of hard work. – Steven Levitan

I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I dont want to be in any box. I dont want to be one thing. – Penelope Cruz

I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldnt do them. And I dont want to screw them by not portraying them honestly. – Kyra Sedgwick

I dont wilt easily, and a director cant either. Hes the captain of the ship and hes got to be in total control. He also has to have respect for the people hes working for. From being an actor and being on a set my whole life, Im very comfortable there. And Im not afraid. – Ricky Schroder

Ill put it frankly – Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries. – Jose Manuel Barroso

I even believe if youre killing a team, you shouldnt stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if youre getting killed by the other team, you should never quit. – Sue Wicks

What we call evil doesnt necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it – so we can help prevent it. – Bryan Singer

How sick one gets of being good, how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours embody selfishness. – Alice James

I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing cant be like any other authors really. – Paul Kane

The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. Thats what were all fighting for. – Cristina Saralegui

Stand-up dont get no respect – its the hardest thing to do in show business. You dont have no band and theres no music. – Tracy Morgan

Ive learned how to look at things and not judge them, but respect them and use it in a way that people understand that I respect them, show them love and respect their reality. – Doug E. Fresh