Quotes About Respect

Ray Santos is one of my personal heroes. I model my life on people like him.

I like jokes, but Ray and I, we never did jokes. We weren't in that line of humor. We each contributed our own kind of observations. I'm glad to have people look at and laugh at and respect and get some creative juice out of what we did by observing.

I have a lot of love and respect for Melissa Etheridge. I love Joe Cocker, Ray LaMontagne, Feist.

We have inherited both Rabindranath Tagore and Satyajit Ray. We love them and we respect them and we adore them, so we also have the right to critique them.

I love Ray Charles.

My father, Inder Raj Anand - a famous writer in his own right - was a great friend of Satyajit Ray.

I still love Carson McCullers and Raymond Carver and Toni Morrison and James Baldwin.

Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling, position by cringing.

Every new president flatters himself that he, kinder and gentler, is beginning the world anew. Yet, when Barack Obama in his inaugural address reached out to Muslims by saying, 'To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect,' his formulation was needlessly defensive and apologetic.

The most important thing will be when we actually stop talking about sexual orientation. The moment we reach that point when that is not important any more, we've reached a big goal which is a long way in front of us.

Our respect for culture and diversity and arts is very low because we only focused on building the economy. But now as we have reached modernization... many citizens can display their potential for arts and culture and I believe that's why Psy has become so popular.

I prefer to be liberal and non-judgmental, which helps me reaching out to the people in a better way.

I don't have any problem with tackles or duels, but I react when I notice that someone is only trying to kick me out of the game. But I never have the intention to hurt anyone. Everything is forgotten again a minute later.

I'm only going to be the way I'd want someone to react to me.

I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive.

You know, different people are going to react different ways. And I don't think we should be intolerable because people do things a little differently.

Even when a drunk guy, a program director, was slurring his words and telling me what to do with my career, I didn't react to him in a negative way. You kind of have to joke back with them to put them in their place.

I learned something through the experiences in my life, and that is that you never judge how someone may be reacting to a situation because you don't know what they may be going through. It's important that you treat people well, and I try to make people feel good about themselves always.

What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the issue is not in any way a homophobic reaction on my part.

I don't feel that as human beings we have an obligation to dislike someone based on their beliefs, and it's OK to have a human reaction to someone even if you feel what they do is hideous and objectionable. You can still enjoy their company and find them interesting to be around.

When someone mistreats you, the correct reaction is not to go out and do something to destroy somebody else's property.

Of course, my sister and my dad, I respect as musicians and look up to them, but people kind of forget that they're my family, so my first reaction isn't always, 'Let me see what my dad and Miley think about this record.'

If I try to act cool and do things that get a positive reaction, then I'm not doing anything for the person I'm in the ring with.

I have incredible respect for customers and peers - my curriculum is very strong because I was taught by my clients' reactions to my work.