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Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.
– George Soros
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Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.
– Francesca Annis
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Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.
– Max Baucus
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It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.
– Ron Wood
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It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
– Brendan Behan
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It's not easy to retire at 31. In one respect I was glad I was done. But after a few years of having fun, I got a little restless. When you're 33, 34, and you don't have a focus, you can get kind of lost. As a man, you feel a little bit unfulfilled.
– Pete Sampras
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It's nice to know that people appreciate and respect you.
– Marcel Carne
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It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.
– Tina Weymouth
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It's easy to see why pitchers respect McGwire. If you hit behind him, they're saying that they don't respect you. You have to change their thinking.
– Eric Davis
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It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.
– Mehmet Oz
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It's critical that the manager has the respect of players so he can make the moves that he feels is appropriate without having somebody go to the papers. They respect you. So you respect them back.
– Dale Murphy
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It's always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project - let alone writes a part with your voice in mind.
– Chris Messina
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It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other.
– Stone Gossard
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It's a paradox to be an actress, living in the city, taking planes all the time, trying to find the right balance in this life, which is not so eco-friendly, and still try to respect the environment.
– Marion Cotillard
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It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.
– Tahar Ben Jelloun
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It is still a surprise when people tell me that I've had an influence on them, particularly when it's someone I really respect.
– Bonnie Raitt
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It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it.
– Estelle Parsons
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It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.
– Alice Walker
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It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.
– Lafcadio Hearn
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It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.
– Ivan Pavlov
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It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything.
– John Bacon
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Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.
– Christian Lous Lange
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Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.
– John Charles Polanyi
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In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't.
– Vladimir Kramnik
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In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.
– Jeff Goodell
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In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.
– Karl Marlantes
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In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.
– Giacomo Casanova
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In some ways that fight gave me more respect around the world and helped me be even more popular because so many people felt my pain and saw that I was robbed.
– Marvin Hagler
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In some ways England is more liberal than France, but I also find it more intrusive. But when you go abroad you have to accept the ways of where you live. I have to respect that.
– Arsene Wenger
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In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world which motivates my scientific thinking to this day.
– Robert B. Laughlin
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In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.
– Ravi Shankar
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In order to gain the respect of your players in the locker room, you can't just perform on Saturday. You have to do it consistently during practices, meetings, and in the weight room.
– Junior Seau
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In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself.
– Bijou Phillips
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In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza.
– Joanna Newsom
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In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us.
– Linda Chavez
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In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect.
– Nigella Lawson
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In England, with all due respect, we have some of the plainest actresses in the entire world as our greatest.
– Minnie Driver
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If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
– Billie Jean King
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If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.
– Frank Langella
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If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things.
– Nick Park
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If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I'm on your team.
– Anthony Anderson
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If you live what you believe, you will always have the respect of others.
– Dale Murphy
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If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect.
– Suzanne Vega
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If you don't respect me you're not gonna get that respect back.
– David Hasselhoff
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If you don't stand for something, how can anyone respect what you do?
– Miranda Lambert
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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
– Robert Schumann
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If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?
– Christiane Amanpour
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If they respect the craft and what we're doing and they bring something to the table and they work hard, I don't care what you do as your side job or as your day job.
– Anthony Anderson
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If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
– Denis Diderot
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If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don't respect him.
– Wil Wheaton
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If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.
– Thomas Cochrane
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If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.
– Gabrielle Union
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If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.
– Harold Pinter
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If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.
– Fiona Apple
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If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't.
– Margaret Atwood
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If I am still doing what I'm doing and I still have respect in this town, haven't done anything completely and utterly stupid, then I'll be happy with myself.
– Jeremy London
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If anyone asks for your autograph they're showing you respect and give it back to them.
– Johnny Rotton
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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 you're talking about.
– Jeff Goldblum
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If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
– Maimonides
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I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available.
– Hillary Clinton
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I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.
– Sting
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I've 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
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I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains.
– Jerry Lewis
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I've got too much respect for stand-ups to call myself one.
– Johnny Vegas
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I've got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything.
– Ian Rush
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
– Nathan Bedford Forrest
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I've discovered that I've never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn - at this late stage in life! - to actually control that.
– Rufus Sewell
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I've been a critic of the antiglobalization movement, and they've been a critic of me, but the one thing I respect about the movement is their authentic energy. These are not people who don't care about the world.
– Thomas Friedman
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I've always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he's a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood.
– Tyler Perry
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I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.
– Stephen Fry
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I've always had a lot of respect from the people I respected.
– Randy Newman
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I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me.
– Alan Ladd
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I'm very conscious that I want the dance audience to respond and respect what I'm doing, so I'm always very true to the music and I honour the music in the way I see it - I don't mess around with the music.
– Matthew Bourne
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I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions.
– Bjorn Ulvaeus
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I'm pretty upfront about my love and admiration for the military. One of the perks of making movies is that you get to sort of follow your own passions, and I believe quite passionately that we don't pay enough attention and respect to our veterans. Not just our wounded veterans, but all veterans.
– Peter Berg
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I'm open to play for anybody that would give me respect, treat me the right way, and actually going to make me feel comfortable.
– Pedro Martinez
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I'm not religious, but I believe that what I have is a gift, and I respect it and live up to it.
– Sugar Ray Leonard
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I'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs.
– Colin Firth
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I'm not gonna say that I hate it, because I really respect Usher and I was influenced by him. But so many people compare me to him, and I don't think it'll ever stop. I just want to be my own artist.
– Chris Brown
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I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way.
– Christiane Amanpour
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I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.
– Loretta Lynn
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I'm looking at working with people I get on with, that respect me, that don't just see me as a piece of ass. Which I have experienced as well. I've nearly walked off very big films before, and I would, because I don't want that in my life. I want to enjoy the work I do.
– Gemma Arterton
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I'm just one woman away, my mother, from being the same as Mike Tyson. I would've ended up like him if my mama had not been so tough and strong. A lot of people, including Mike, don't know I came from the ghetto. They think I'm too nice and proper. But that's the way my mama raised me - to look people in the eye and respect them.
– Evander Holyfield
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I'm getting my respect as a video director. The fashion industry respects me and knows who I am.
– ASAP Rocky
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I'm definitely bicoastal, but I have to say, it's easier to live in New York than in L.A. I feel like people respect other people's space a bit more here.
– Mary-Kate Olsen
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I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.
– Daniel Radcliffe
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I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.
– Jane Goodall
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I'm always most excited about the job I'm doing at the present, and that's especially true about 'Price' because of my respect for the show and it's production team.
– Randy West
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I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves.
– Rachel Roy
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I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries.
– Jose Manuel Barroso
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I would never want to live in L.A., and I made that decision years ago, so I never chose that path for myself, although I have much respect for those that do it at a high level.
– Matt Cameron
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I would love to have dinner with Jay-Z and Beyonce. I think we would have a lot to chat about. I like them both so much, and I love them as a couple. I like that they are both at the top of their game - and that they have a mutual respect and admiration for each other.
– Gayle King
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I would love to direct but I feel like directing is a whole separate craft and so I tend to respect it as a separate craft that I would need to study first. So, right now I'm still trying to do certain things as an actor and until I get bored of that or I feel completely fed by that then I'll move into directing.
– Michael Ealy
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I would like to work with anyone in the business who wants to give respect back to the Jamaican vibe.
– Sean Paul
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I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are.
– Alexander McQueen
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I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
– P. J. Harvey
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I work on a TV show I love, I have the opportunity to do movies with actors I respect, and I'm in love with the man I want to spend the rest of my life with, who pushes me and excites me.
– Ali Larter
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I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.
– Woodrow Wilson
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I will have to earn trust and respect from my kids.
– Tiger Woods
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I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.
– Sandra Cisneros
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