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• This earth is my sister; I love her daily grace, her silent daring, and how loved I am. How we admire this strength in each other, all that we have lost, all that we have suffered, all that we know: We are stunned by this beauty, and I do not forget: what she is to me, what I am to her.

  Susan Griffin

  Grace, Earth, Forget

  Susan Griffin (2015). “Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her”, p.190, Open Road Media

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• While Max appears to greatly admire Wallace as a writer and feel compassion for him as a man, he is never starry-eyed, or pulls his punches. Every Love Story is a Ghost Story is as illuminating, multifaceted, and serious an estimation of David Foster Wallace's life and work as we can hope to find.

  Elissa Schappell

  Men, Compassion, Ghost Stories

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• [After World War II:] By now we are used to the rubble, which they clear up religiously and indefatigably. What a determination to get on top again! One could admire it, if one would not be afraid that somewhere lurks another Hitler. But you can't seem to find a single Nazi in Germany! Nobody was one! It was all a dream!

  Lotte Lenya

  Dream, Determination, War

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• Art consists precisely in making us admire old stories, charming us with them eternally, as Nature charms with her eternal sun, her ancient earth, and her men built all on the same pattern, and all animated by the same feelings.

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Art, Men, Feelings

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• Books, of which the principles are diseased or deformed, must be kept on the shelf of the scholar, as the man of science preserves monsters in glasses. They belong to the study of the mind's morbid anatomy, and ought to be accurately labelled. Voltaire will still be a wit, notwithstanding he is a scoffer; and we may admire the brilliant spots and eyes of the viper, if we acknowledge its venom and call it a reptile.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Book, Eye, Men

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• There is probably no greater idler than myself. And I would consider myself a lazy-bones if I did not write so many volumes, and if I did not admire my diligence once I begin writing.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Writing, Lazy, Idlers

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• It is the utterly destructive quality. When you say vanity, you are thinking of the kind that admires itself in mirrors and buys things to deck itself out in. But that is merely personal conceit. Real vanity is something quite different. A matter not of person but of personality. Vanity says, "I must have this because I am me." It is a frightening thing because it is incurable.

  Josephine Tey

  Real, Thinking, Vanity

  Josephine Tey (1952). “The singing sands”, Vintage

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• When I am trying to understand the method of winning in the endgame with two bishops against the knight, chess is a science, when I admire a beautiful combination or study, then chess is art, and when I am complicating position in the approaching time trouble of my opponent, then chess is sport.

  Ashot Nadanian

  Beautiful, Sports, Art

  S'pore Chess News, September 07, 2010.

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• I met PJ Harvey when I was in England, and the first thing I want to do when I meet a songwriter I admire is to ask them how do they receive songs.

  Valerie June

  Song, Pjs, Firsts

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• I admire people who re-create themselves. And it seems to me that what gives us all the opportunity to be heroic in our own lives is that we work to heal ourselves and be better than we were yesterday.

  Robert Crais

  Opportunity, Yesterday, People

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• Outside observers often assume that the more complicted a piece of mathematics is, the more mathematicians admire it. Nothing could be further from the truth. Mathematicians admire elegance and simplicity above all else, and the ultimate goal in solving a problem is to find the method that does the job in the most efficient manner. Though the major accolades are given to the individual who solves a particular problem first, credit (and gratitude) always goes to those who subsequently find a simpler solution.

  Keith Devlin

  Gratitude, Jobs, Goal

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• I like playing a character that admires real musicianship, and real talent and hard work. I think that's a good message for everyone.

  Elizabeth Gillies

  Real, Hard Work, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• I do admire [Willie] Wonka. He's a true capitalist. His factory has zero government regulations, slave labor and an indoor boat. Wonderful.

  Alec Baldwin

  Zero, Government, Slave Labor

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Newsweek recently asked American women which women they admire the most, and the answer varied, actually, depending on which political party you were from... Republican women picked Oprah as the most admired woman, followed by Sarah Palin. Democratic women said Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman, followed by Oprah Winfrey. Independents also picked Oprah Winfrey, followed by Diane Sawyer.

  Michel Martin

  Party, Political, Answers

  "Poll: Oprah Winfrey Most Admired Woman In America". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 10, 2011.

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• The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Laughing, World, Foxes

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• I'm very proud of my sister and protective of her. Solange is the one person I will fight for. Don't talk about my sister; don't play with me about my sister. If you do, you'll see another side of me. I admire her, and though she's five years younger than me, I strive to be like her. She's so smart and secure. She's sensitive to people's feelings, but not afraid of what they think.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Smart, Fighting, Thinking

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• When I hear a great new record, especially when it's by someone that I respect and admire, then a part of me is like, Why didn't I think of that? Why didn't I write that record? It makes you sick, but in a way it can be a great thing. It makes you want to go back to the lab and start writing again. Maybe it will inspire you to try a little harder.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Writing, Thinking, Sick

  "Of course you can lose yourself" by Paul Flynn, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2006.

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• If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes.

  Alan Shearer

  Player, Paul Scholes, Footballer

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• I admire the ambition of the project, and the generosity of many of the lines.

  Robert Fagles

  Ambition, Generosity, Lines

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• The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about whats in style, whats current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities.

  Robert Pinsky

  Thinking, Artist, Style

  "On Living Merrily and Trusting Good Verses" by Robert Pinsky, bigthink.com.

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• To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.

  Barry Manilow

  Song, Writing, Sky

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

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• It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.

  Frances Mayes

  Book, People, Kind

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• I really, really admire my parents so much, for how they raised me. They're some of the best human beings I know.

  Missy Peregrym

  Parent, Raised, Humans

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• I studied in Britain and spent great moments of my life there as a student living in Belsize Park. I admire the British trait of the stiff upper lip in the face of adversity. My wife studied in Britain too and both of us have many friends there.

  Asif Ali Zardari

  Adversity, Wife, Parks

  Interview with Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2000.

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• Unfortunately, we both lead incredibly hectic lives that force us to spend a majority of our time apart. I will always admire and respect Tiger. He and his beautiful family will always hold a special place in my heart.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Beautiful, Heart, Special

  "Lindsey Vonn and Tiger Woods end three-year relationship". www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2015.

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