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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
When you win the FA Cup, you have a title and a very respectable title in England - more than other countries.
No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.
I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was.
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.
The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.
During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.
I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.
It appears to me that our sex is only discussed publicly in a derogatory manner. The respectable woman is doomed to anonymity.
In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real genius.
Since the Holocaust, anti-Semitism is no longer respectable. It was in the 1920s and '30s, but the Holocaust obviously changed that.
Aside from a brief stint as a writing tutor during graduate school, I have managed to avoid respectable employment all my adult life.
Respectable transwomen were not as visible and very unclear in how they defined themselves. I had no one to look up to, pre-transition.
Falsifiability for a theory is great, but a theory can still be respectable even if it is not falsifiable, as long as it is verifiable.
By God's grace and strength of my work, I've managed to build a respectable image that I use to serve both my continent and my country.
I started out as an opportunistic renegade. By now, I've lasted long enough to become sort of an American Original Respectable Renegade.
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
I have worshipped Berlin from the day I read 'Two Concepts of Liberty' in South Africa. It seemed to make it respectable to be a liberal.
When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.
These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.
As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.
Art, like science, progresses, and to me it's bizarre that a lot of acclaimed and popular and respectable books are not advancing the art form.
There is a respectable body of economic thought that holds that casino gambling is actually economically regressive to a state and a community.
Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.
War stories, westerns, spy stories are all accepted as respectable because they are read by men. It is only women's light reading which is derided.
I just didn't want to leave the Cowboys when they were down. I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
History teaches us that, whatever we say, racists will always distort the words of mainstream politicians to make themselves sound more respectable.
A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.
I had seen a Pfizer's pilot plant in 1965 and decided that, 'I'll build a Pfizer.' If not Pfizer, I have built Dr Reddy's, which is no less respectable.
The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it.
If there is ever a crew that goes out every night behind the eight-ball and have their work cut out for them to be respectable, it's the '205 Live' guys.
If you call it a romance, it will never be reviewed by the 'New York Times' or any other respectable literary venue. And that's okay. I can live with that.
While Trump keeps the spotlight on himself, the "respectable" Republican establishment chips away at government programs that benefit the general population.
The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business, unfortunately.
At the end of the day, every person makes their own evaluation and their own criticism and it's all respectable. I don't want to say who is right and who isn't.
Confidence comes from within and as long as you are putting forth a respectable effort to take good care of yourself, you should feel confident about that path.
That was part of David Duke's agenda, is to turn the Klan from a racist organization in the eyes of the public into something that is respectable and acceptable.
There is no faith, however respectable, no interest, however legitimate, which must not accommodate itself to the progress of human knowledge and bend before truth.
Donald Trump does not touch alcohol, which is really respectable. But think about that. That means every statement, every interview, every tweet - completely sober.
When I was a young man, it was very fashionable not to have the sacred thread ceremony, and among very respectable families, mind you. As a rebel, I decided to do it.
I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.
The eurosceptics, many of whom are my friends and are highly intelligent people with strong views, they are entirely respectable in every way, I just don't agree with them.
We want to be presentable and respectable, but feel like we can talk freely about what we want to sing about - we don't need to cuss to have that bad-boy attitude, I guess.
My mother wanted me to join the Indian army, as the army was seen as a decent and respectable career to have. I shocked my mother by telling her that I wanted to be a writer.
There's something weird about the Scots. We are a troubled, slightly tortured race - the sense of the respectable outward character and, inside, the turmoil of something darker.
Raoul' sold a respectable 700,000 copies without a hit single. It didn't take off. If you don't sell 8 million albums or 4 million albums again, everybody deems it a big failure.
Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.