"I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast."
-Colin Firth
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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.“
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"My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that it's the way one is raised."
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"If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there."
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"I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year."
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"I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects."
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"One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor."
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"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not."
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women."
-Gordon B. Hinckley
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"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."
-H. L. Mencken
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"Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be."
-Rita Rudner
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"I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world."
-Georges Duhamel
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"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"
-Confucius
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