Disrespectful Quotes

• A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

  Billy Graham

  Family, Respect, Children

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• I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.

  Helen Thomas

  Thinking, Tough Questions, Literature

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  Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

  Will Smith

  Forgiveness, Jealousy, Hater

  Song: Just the Two of Us, Album: Big Willie Style, 1997

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• A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Photography, Thinking, Want

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• I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager, and never, ever your uniform.

  Ryne Sandberg

  Sports, Organization, Disrespect

  "Speech should be required reading" by Susan Crowell, www.farmanddairy.com. August 4, 2005.

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• I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.

  Ed Gillespie

  Past, Years, Political

  Interview with PBS, www.pbs.org.

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• Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Respect, Attitude, Literature

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  Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

  Cesar Chavez

  Other Cultures, Diversity, Disrespect

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.352, Penguin

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• You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, People, Disrespect

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• I very rarely came across rude or disrespectful people. I don't know how I slipped by all of them, but I honestly can't think of one experience off the top of my head that was like that. I'm sure they're there, but I'd have to think really hard to recall them.

  Scott Baio

  Thinking, People, Rude

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in the streets. That's like when they tell you after you buy your VHS and you rent movies they tell you not to copy the movies.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Disrespect, Black, Criminals

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• I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Respect, Party, Past

  "Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson".

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• I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people too much.

  Tracey Ullman

  Mean, People, Cynical

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• disrespectful words cannot entirely be eaten, ever. Respect is a kind of Humpty Dumpty. All the king's horses can't put it all the way up again.

  Charlotte Armstrong

  Respect, Horse, Kings

  Charlotte Armstrong (2018). “The Dream Walker”, p.110, Head of Zeus Ltd

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• We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Self, People

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• Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.

  Peter Stuyvesant

  Patience, Speech, Bears

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• I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.

  Bram Fischer

  Punishment, Wish, Might

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• I think we have got the wood on South Africa, but that does not mean they are not a good team. They intimidate a lot of teams but we intimidate them. There is no disrespect for South Africa; they are a very good team.

  Shane Warne

  Team, Mean, Thinking

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• But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.

  Talib Kweli

  Artist, Process

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• I think it's sort of disrespectful to the partner you're having sex with to talk about it.

  Gretchen Mol

  Sex, Thinking, Partners

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• I do most of my work with kids. They are the very foundation of our future. We are so incredibly disrespectful to them in America in every way because they can't vote.

  Henry Winkler

  Work, Kids, America

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• I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to the marketplace and make a bonfire of them.

  Wilfrid Laurier

  Disrespect, Titles, Crowns

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• Also in Norah Jones, now there's a voice that sounds and I don't mean disrespect but sounds a hundred years old that sounds incredibly experienced. It's just an exciting time.

  Gerry Beckley

  Mean, Years, Voice

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• Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.

  Shirley Jackson

  Children, Savages, Memoir

  Shirley Jackson (2008). “The Lottery”, p.29, The Creative Company

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• I'm not trying to disrespect anybody by saying this - I'm not sure I feel any interaction with Asian America in any collective sense. - It's like, when you're telling me this right now, my reaction is, Really? Asian America knows about me?

  Chad Hugo

  America, Disrespect, Trying

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