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Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
Sam Keen / Author
Laziness
Respectability
Summer
Deep
Finds
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Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
Elbert Hubbard / Writer
Bosoms
Civilization
Respectability
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Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.
Shelley Winters / Actress
Respectability
Sixty
Toward
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Let us renew our trust in god, and go forward without fear.
Abraham Lincoln / 16Th U.s. President
Guile
Respectability
Trust In God
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No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.
Lin Yutang / Writer
Men
Respectability
Respectable
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Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.
Benjamin Disraeli / Former Leader Of The House Of Commons
Respect
Mean
Respectability
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The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.
Mason Cooley /
Age
Literature
Respectability
Shade
Begin
Close
Head
Shades
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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
George Bernard Shaw / Playwright
Respect
Men
Mean
Respectability
Sarcastic
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... danger was always at its most lethal when disguised as respectability.
Susan Moody / Novelist
Danger
Respectability
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Respectability? Who wants to be respectable? That's spoken like a true loser.
Chuck Noll / Football Player
Respectability
Spoken
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I wish more women would come into films and give it the respectability it deserves.
Suhasini Maniratnam /
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I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
D. H. Lawrence / Novelist
Dog
Glad
Invincible
Respectability
Steps
Dogs
Shall
Strangled
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God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.
Amiri Baraka / Writer
God
Air
Air Conditioning
Conditioning
Replaced
Respectability
West
Been
Over
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I will continue doing films till my last breathe and will regain my respectability in the industry.
Rahul Roy /
Breathe
Respectability
Till
Regain
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I have worn a tuxedo, but I have never covered up for respectability politics or to shame other women.
Janelle Monae / Musician
Covered
Respectability
Worn
Tuxedo
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When I was 15, I became an avid fan of Andres Segovia. He brought so much respectability to the guitar.
Jose Feliciano /
Avid
Respectability
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It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.
Kenneth L. Pike /
Granted
Respectability
Societies
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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
E. Stanley Jones / Reporter
Church
Desire
Ordinary
Respectability
Appear
Suppressed
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Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also?
Thomas Bailey Aldrich / Poet
Conservatism
Respectability
Unconventional
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In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
John Kenneth Galbraith / Economist
Faith
Coexist
Deep Desire
Desire
Economics
Pretension
Respectability
Also
Deep
Scientific
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Naked need is the occasion for God's giving, not a need adorned with the clean, elegant robes of respectability and good works.
Miroslav Volf / Theologian
Clean
Elegant
Giving
Naked
Needs
Respectability
Adorned
Good Works
Occasion
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It's time for the aesthetics of upwardly mobile feminist respectability to make room for the aesthetics of survival, particularly trans survival.
Hari Nef /
Aesthetic
Respectability
Survival
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To recognize that head injuries were as essential a part of football as they are of boxing would be to erase the fine distinction on which the game's respectability rested.
Charlie Pierce /
Boxing
Distinction
Erase
Respectability
Essential
Injuries
Recognize
Rested
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Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have organized to fight for acceptance and respectability.
Walter Cronkite / Journalist
Acceptance
Homosexual
Homosexuality
Men And Women
Morality
Organized
Respectability
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Respectability in this country was a bad word because people did things who were in respected professions that let down the entire nation, and we're washing away their sins yet.
Enda Kenny /
Let Down
Respectability
Washing
Nation
People Bad Country
Entire
Bad Country People
Professions
Sins
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My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That's what I mean by respectability.
Hanif Kureishi / Playwright
Family
Jobs
Big Deal
Father
Mean
Respectability
Servant
Support
Family Me Father
Job
Civil
Civil Servant
Deal
Family Father Me
Having
Regular
Sense
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I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.
Benjamin F. Wade / Former United States Senator
Bears
Heart
Human Heart
Influence
Mind
Opinion
Popular Opinion
Respectability
Bear
Current
Glide
Motives
Minds
Popular
Seduce
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I like my films to have a certain amount of realism - something that's thought provoking and intelligently written. More than the amount on the pay cheque, I look for a level of respectability as an actor.
Arjun Rampal / Film Actor
Actors
Looks
Provoking
Realism
Respectability
Thought Provoking
Cheque
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When you are seeing somebody, then obviously it's a commitment. And if you don't want to commit, then don't be in a relationship. Every relationship deserves a certain credibility and respectability. For me, it's always been like that.
Shahid Kapoor / Film Actor
Commit
Credibility
Respectability
Relationship Always Me
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The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.
William Bligh / Governor
Eight
Lasts
Pace
Regard
Respectability
Secure
Years
Attempt
Cape
Considerable
Increased
Rendered
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The main purpose of engaging in conversation can no longer be personal advancement or respectability. Instead, I'd like for us to use conversations to create equality, to open ourselves to strangers, and, most practically, to remake our working world.
Theodore Zeldin /
Advancement
Engaging
Respectability
Conversations
Remake
Practically
Strangers
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In fairness, Latin America's elected civilian leaders have made progress in some areas. They have brought their countries back to international respectability, curbed flagrant human rights violations, and sought to build democratic political institutions.
Stephen Kinzer / Author
Democratic
Fairness
Human Rights
Latin
Political Institutions
Respectability
Civilian
Elected
Flagrant
Sought
Violations
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There's this responsibility you feel to present a certain thing that kind of respectability politics. I think that became the only accepted way of defining black culture. I started to become too aware of 'How does this look?' instead of 'Who are these characters?'
Rick Famuyiwa /
Accepted
Defining
Respectability
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From the moment we were first dumped in Jamestown and had our teeth checked before getting sold off and later considered three-fifths of a human being, an abundance of 'likability' hasn't been something blacks have had to stockpile. Instead, it's been a centuries-long battle for respectability.
John Ridley / Screenwriter
Abundance
Battle
Dumped
Respectability
Teeth
Considered
Blacks
Checked
Human Being
Sold
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I couldn't have known how vertiginous the entire Huxtable project was. I was, like, 10, 13, 15 years old when the show was a thing. But eventually, I could see that Cliff became a play for respectability. 'This is how you comport yourself among white people, young black child. Take a little bit of Howard with you on your way to Harvard.'
Wesley Morris / Journalist
Harvard
Respectability
Cliff
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Graham promoted a white evangelical respectability that wanted to 'put the brakes' on the civil rights movement, and never really accepted women as equal to men. He may have been the country's greatest evangelist, but he was also an apologist for the racist and sexist beliefs pervasive among white evangelical men in 20th-century America.
Anthea Butler /
Accepted
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Evangelical
Respectability
Men Women May
Beliefs
Brakes
Evangelist
Women Men Country
Graham
Pervasive
Promoted
Rights Movement
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Evangelical Christian politicians who cheat often raise questions about hypocrisy, especially if they preached piety in public and disregarded it in private. When Jewish politicians fall, they shatter different expectations, particularly that American Jews need to work together to preserve respectability and fireproof against anti-Semitism.
Jodi Kantor / Correspondent
Anti Semitism
Disregarded
Evangelical
Hypocrisy
Piety
Respectability
Jewish
Politicians
Jews
Preached
Preserve
Raise
Shatter
Work Together
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