Quotes About Respect

I always just read the play and find a world. That world must honour the play, enhance it, and maybe shine some new light - not satirise or try to reinvent in a way that is placing the idea above the thing. The play is the thing.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: 'Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?' We must always consider the person.

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.

I believe that if you reject and don't respect what you have now, that's ingratitude. I'm grateful for everything I have today.

Reject cynicism. Reject certitude. And don't be a jerk. Be a good guy.

I accept people for who they are and love them. That doesn't mean I have to agree or that I have to turn my back on the tenets of my faith and reject the tenets of my faith when it comes to homosexuality.

We Egyptians reject any kind of assault or insult against our prophet.

I said I reject any form of bigotry, bigotry of all kinds.

We must reject the politics of meanness and contempt that increasingly dominate our airwaves and Internet.

I don't care what religion you are, you cannot say 'I accept certain things but I reject others.' That's not the right behaviour.

Picasso is a character that has pursued me for a long time and I always rejected. He deserves a lot of respect because I am from Malaga, and I was born four blocks from where he was born.

Racial distinctions should not be rejected; they should be embraced.

Any type of anti-Semitism in any form needs to be soundly rejected.

My values - going back to my childhood - were always based on respect for all people and rejection of bigotry and racism.

When I got the role in 'Homeland,' it really opened something up. Other people respected me more as an actor, doors were opened, and I understood for the first time that it wasn't personal. All that rejection wasn't personal.

I always relate respectfully with blue-collar people.

I'm not going to relate to an athlete as a peer.

You tend to relate to the other person better if you understand their professional needs.

People are people, regardless of who they love or what gender they relate to.

As a public personality, I keep things related to my children and partner to myself. They are private matters.

A couple of years ago, I went to dinner with a very high-profile source, and out of respect, I put my phone down for, say, an hour and a half. And during this dinner there was a major breaking story related to the Secret Service. When I picked my phone back up, I had missed about 50 emails and seven phone calls from the network.

My name was originally Da Baby Jesus, but I changed it like two years into my career because I didn't want to offend anyone; although I feel like my purpose in the game is related and still is, I didn't want my name to be a distraction from the music.

I have never tried to bear a judgment against my own father because I consider that, in our European culture, one does not judge his parents. Now, I have expressed my disagreements with my father on certain points, disagreements related to the way one should express things, something that has also to do with a difference of generations.

If Salman Khan is not marrying, it is his personal decision and purely a personal matter. The issue is not related to empowerment of women.