Respect Quotes
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"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous."Source: Quoted in The Gospel According to Coco Chanel : Life Lessons from the World's Most Elegant Woman (2009) | Speaker: Coco Chanel
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"Good night, you princes of Maine, you kings of New England."Source: The Cider House Rules | Speaker: Dr. Wilbur Larch
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"He tells you when you've got on too much lipstick"Source: The Perfect Husband | Author: Ogden Nash
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"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful."Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci | Author: Leonardo da Vinci
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"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."Speaker: Voltaire
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"I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters—two beautiful, intelligent, Black young women—playing with their dogs on the White House lawn."Source: 2016 Democratic National Convention Speech | Speaker: Michelle Obama
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"I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules."Source: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Speaker: Jefferson Smith
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"I'm the man who's gonna save your lives and all 6 billion people on the planet below. You got a problem with that?"Source: Doctor Who | Speaker: The Tenth Doctor
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"Note to self: After a long day at work, I don't need to see that!"Source: The Comeback | Speaker: Valerie Cherish as Aunt Sassy
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"Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool."Source: The Ten Commandments | Speaker: Nefretiri
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"We live in the best of all possible worlds."Source: Essays of Theodicy on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil | Author: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz
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"We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice."Source: "The Celebration of Negro History Week" in The Journal of Negro History | Author: Carter G. Woodson
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"You ask me if I have a God complex. Let me tell you something. I am God."Source: Malice | Speaker: Dr. Jed Hill
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"You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked."Source: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Speaker: Jefferson Smith
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"You want to be taken seriously? Stop dressing like a little girl."Source: Mad Men | Speaker: Joan Holloway