"I've had great success being a total idiot."
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"I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains.“
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"I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life."
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"If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well."
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"Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women."
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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."
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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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