Quote by Gil Scott-Heron
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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Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am. – 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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You couldnt pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve peoples problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense. – Christopher Meloni

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Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever – stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave. – Jeffrey Kluger

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I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999. – Kenneth Robert Livingstone

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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. – Robert A. Heinlein

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Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity. – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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