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• I used to be a bit obsessed by acting but not anymore. I do enjoy acting but I probably enjoy it more now because it's easier. I can't work in the theater because to me it's too serious. It's like being in prison for me. I admire people that can do that but I can't do it. I'd rather live my life and do a bit of acting in between.

  Anthony Hopkins

  People, Acting, Serious

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• I'd like to go for people I admire - I always gravitate towards the people I idolized when I was a teenager: Cher, Diana Ross, and David Bowie.

  RuPaul

  Teenager, People, Diana

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• If someone asked me if I could have anything in the world, what would l want? If l could own anything, like owning a piece of art, l think it would be Elton John's publishing, on his first seven albums. I don't want the money. Being able to own those songs Is like owning a painting of someone you admire.

  Axl Rose

  Song, Art, Thinking

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• The person that I most admire is Jesus Christ. He is the only perfect Person. There is simply no comparison. The difference between Him and all other men is not merely quantitative, but qualitative. He is in a category all to Himself.

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Men, Differences

  Source: m.blogs.christianpost.com

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• I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Fiction, Stories, Enjoy

  Interview with Claire Zulkey, zulkey.com. May 28, 2004.

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• I think I'm way too much of a control freak to co-author anything with anyone. I have a hard enough time writing with myself! I admire people that can do it, but it's not for me.

  Sarah Dessen

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: blogs.idahostatesman.com

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• The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.

  Bill Watterson

  Special, World, Gags

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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• The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives.

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Leader, World

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• We mustn't romanticize suffering. It can turn people bitter and hard, although it does seem to have been almost indispensable in making people into the kind of leaders that we admire.

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Leader, Suffering

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• The female characters in my books tend to be independent, frisky, spunky, witty, emotionally strong, erotically daring, spiritually oriented and intellectually generous; in short, the kind of women I admire in real life.

  Tom Robbins

  Witty, Strong, Real

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• If you are doing a piece about somebody, even if you admire them tremendously and express that in the piece, express that admiration, if they're not used to being written about, if they're civilians, [...] they're not used to seeing themselves through other people's eyes. So you will always see them from a slightly different angle than they see themselves, and they feel a little betrayed by that.

  Joan Didion

  Eye, People, Different

  Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2006.

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• As a writer, you always read in two minds: You read as a reader and you enjoy it, and you look at it as a writer, and you just admire the architecture and the construction.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Book, Two, Mind

  Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. January, 2010.

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• Not only must Americans admire Israel, there can be no doubt that we have an interest in, and special responsibility for, that valiant nation.

  George Ball

  Responsibility, Israel, Doubt

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• If you want my views of history, there's something you should know. The three men I admire the most are Curly, Larry, and Mo.

  Meat Loaf

  Men, Views, Three

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• I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowing reputation.

  William Boyd

  Reality, Glowing, People

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• Not to admire, is all the art I know To make men happy, or to keep them so. Thus Horace wrote we all know long ago; And thus Pope quotes the precept to re-teach From his translation; but had none admired, Would Pope have sung, or Horace been inspired?

  Lord Byron

  Art, Men, Long Ago

  Lord Byron (2017). “Don Juan”, p.263, BookRix

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• Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Laughing, Feelings

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.292, Delphi Classics

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• Don't ever over-analyze your results. Don't ever try to find your own secret or the one which you admire. One does not try to catch soap bubbles. One enjoys them in flight and is grateful for their fluid existence.

  Ernst Haas

  Grateful, Secret, Trying

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• They most the world enjoy who least admire.

  Edward Young

  World, Enjoy

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”

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• Sublime tobacco! which from east to west, Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His hours, and rivals opium and his brides; Magnificent in Stamboul, but less grand, Though not less loved, in Wapping or the Strand: Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe, When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe; Like other charmers wooing the caress, More dazzlingly when daring in full dress; Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties Give me a cigar!

  Lord Byron

  Cheer, Giving, Sublime

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1029, Delphi Classics

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• In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are intended to produce; and in the mechanism of a plant, or animal body, admire how every thing is contrived for advancing the two great purposes of nature, the support of the individual, and the propagation of the species.

  Adam Smith

  Mean, Animal, Two

  Adam Smith, Robert L. Heilbroner, Laurence J. Malone (1987). “The Essential Adam Smith”, p.97, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Words don't tell you what people are thinking. Rarely do we use words to really tell. We use words to sell people or to convince people or to make them admire us. It's all disguise. It's all hidden -- a secret language.

  Robert Altman

  Thinking, People, Secret

  "Robert Altman: What I've Learned" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• There is much in American society which I admire, but I have long held the view that the absence of an effective safety net in that country means that too many needy citizens fall by the wayside. That is not the path that Australia will tread. Nor do we want the burdens of nanny state paternalism that now weigh down many economies in Europe.

  John Howard

  Country, Fall, Mean

  Australia Day Address, January 25, 2006.

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• As a director and filmmaker, I love creating my own opportunity, and getting to share the love, in that way, by creating other opportunities for people that I admire, so that they can do something in a way they haven't done it before.

  Mark Webber

  Opportunity, Creating, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I think it's really good and helpful to have the people you most admire in some other discipline than what you work in. It's too intimidating and derivative to be just totally gobsmacked by someone doing exactly the same thing as you are.

  Whit Stillman

  Thinking, Discipline, People

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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