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Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. -- Fulton J. Sheen
Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue. -- Grover Norquist
I do everything I do to pay tribute to my great-grandfather. -- Nik Wallenda
The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute. -- J. William Fulbright
In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute. -- Thurgood Marshall
I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies. -- Dan Fogelberg
We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him. -- Sammy Davis, Jr.
I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme. -- Dwight Yoakam
It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them. -- Etta James
As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars. -- John M. McHugh
I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. -- Fulton J. Sheen
One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being. -- Tom Peters
I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult. -- Nanci Griffith
The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time. -- Joseph Lewis
This was a tragic event in human history, but by paying tribute to the Armenian community we ensure the lessons of the Armenian genocide are properly understood and acknowledged. -- Jerry Costello
The czar was always sending us commands - you shall not do this and you shall not do that - till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die. -- Mary Antin
We are all familiar with the dove carrying an olive branch as a peace offering. The jewelry I've created pays tribute both to the messenger's noble mission and gardens as a refuge of peace and tranquility. -- Paloma Picasso
The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital. -- George Steiner
The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs. -- Alfred P. Sloan
You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our navigation laws, your fishing bounties, and by making your people our manufacturers, our merchants, our shippers. -- John H. Reagan
If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself. -- Michael Kinsley
We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple. -- Harper Lee
It was great fun to be able to work with so many different artists. And I'm paying a tribute to the Beatles. I've just recorded some of their songs. -- Billy Preston

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