Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed. Chris Ware
I definitely think we get a lot of respect for what we do, but I definitely think that some people don't like us, which is fine. Matt Stone
I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization. Byron Dorgan
My goal is to get another 30 years out of this business. So I need to figure out the fuel to do that. And so far, I think it's respect and quality and company, not celebrity or box office or stardom. It's not a sprinter's approach. It's more like a long-distance thing. You can stick around a lot longer if you kind of slow-play it. Jason Bateman
My mission, I guess, has always been the kind of world where lesbian and gay people can celebrate who we are with equal freedom, dignity, and respect. John Fisher
I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep. Val Kilmer
I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so. Michael Gove
Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control. Gina Carano
Well you know, I have the utmost respect for people like Angelina Jolie and Zoe Saldana in 'Colombiana. ' Gina Carano
I try to respect the rules of the silent movies and I tried to make signification to make sense, and also the crew were very good and the fact that we shot in LA in the real Hollywood, studios and houses. We shot in the bed of Mary Pickford, and you cannot be any more accurate than that, so that helped a lot. Michel Hazanavicius
My government will respect the will of the people. Mwai Kibaki
Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it. Karen Allen
I've discovered that I've never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn - at this late stage in life! - to actually control that. Rufus Sewell
You cannot trust 25 guys in a locker room to have the same respect and training as I do with a weapon. That I do understand. I've carried a gun for 10 years. I've carried them in the locker room, and nobody really knows about it. I know how to handle myself. Luke Scott
I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me. Alan Ladd
Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt. John Hench
For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power. Omar Bongo
But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries. Omar Bongo
Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem. John Barton
The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil. Alain de Botton