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Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect tha

Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didnt want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen. – Gil Scott-Heron

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Everything thats bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because thats the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people. – Gil Scott-Heron

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positive
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Ive always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the people who are trying to find peace, who are trying to have the Constitution apply to everybody, are they really the radicals? Were not protesting from the outside. Were inside. – Gil Scott-Heron

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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns. – Charlotte Bronte

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I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my fathers respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things. – James Cameron

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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

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If any movie people are watching this show, please, for me, have some respect. You wanna sell some tickets, act like you know what youre talking about. – Jeff Goldblum

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