Admire Quotes - Page 20

• I've never modeled myself on anybody, but there are a lot of people whose work I really admire and attitudes I certainly subscribe to.

  Tim Curry

  Attitude, People

  "New Again: Tim Curry". Interview with Susan Pile, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 25, 2015.

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• People listen for cues - when they are searching for a decision, they look to people they know. Young people can be apathetic in certain ways unless they hear from someone they like and admire about why they should be engaged and involved. If someone you love is doing a rally or concert, you may be engaged to register.

  Hill Harper

  Love Is, People, Decision

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I admire Cate Blanchett and Kate Winslet. I like a lot of comedians. I like Cameron Diaz - she's funny and has a very light spirit. That's quite rare nowadays. There are many actresses I admire.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Light, Comedian, Actresses

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• We do not admire a man of timid peace.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men

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• Dogs don't just like us, they love us, and they admire us. The big reason they admire us is we invented cars. They're like, "Yes, we get to go somewhere!" Go somewhere faster, with their head out the window, and their ears, like, "Yes! Yes!"

  Laurie Anderson

  Dog, Car, Ears

  Interview with A. M. Homes, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• I hope my talent has something to do with it. I just think this business is so crazy. I obviously do the best I can, and the directors I admire see something in me. But this is a strange business, and there are people who are incredibly talented who never make it, who never get these opportunities. So that's why I say I'm lucky. I don't feel that I'm not talented - I think I am talented - but I also think I'm very lucky.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Crazy, Opportunity, Thinking

  Interview with Michael Martin, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2015.

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• I look upon youth in admiration and admire them for their curiosity about the world, their shape shifting, their ideas about the future.

  Polixeni Papapetrou

  Ideas, Curiosity, Looks

  "Stories from the Other Side: Polixeni Papapetrou Exhibits at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, NYC". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. April 29, 2013.

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• I admire the actors that truly can impersonate someone - become someone, inhabit someone. It's amazing when you see it done.

  Jason Schwartzman

  Actors, Done, Impersonate

  "Egyptian Protest Slogans". Interview with Ross Simonini, believermag.com. September 1, 2011.

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• Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman.

  John Cheever

  Blood, Knives, House

  TheWapshot Chronicle ch. 36 (1957)

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• Sex is difficult to write about because it's just not sexy enough. The only way to write about it is not to write much. Let the reader bring his own sexuality into the text. A writer I usually admire has written about sex in the most off-putting way. There is just too much information.

  Toni Morrison

  Sexy, Writing, Too Much Information

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• We often judge cities by great public buildings. But we admire great cities because people live there in a beautiful way. You have to think about how each person will live there; you can't just think about abstract ideas.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Beautiful, Thinking, Cities

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• In fact, most of the time, people with similar information, similar beliefs and similar apparent choices will choose similar actions. So if you want to know why someone does what they do, start with what they know, what they believe and where they came from. Dismissing actions we don't admire merely because we don't care enough to have empathy is rarely going to help us make the change we seek. It doesn't help us understand, and it creates a gulf that drives us apart.

  Seth Godin

  Believe, People, Choices

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• Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.

  Samuel Barnett

  Queens, Moving, Order

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• I try to not listen to all the girls I admire musically - like Nina Simone - just so I don't find myself imitating them, even if it's subconsciously.

  Lou Doillon

  Girl, Trying, Nina

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• I was named after the great emperor Cyrus as my father, Farokh Broacha, was a great admirer of the Persian emperor. Continuing the tradition, I have named my son after Mikhail Gorbachev, someone whom I admire. He gave his people freedom.

  Cyrus Broacha

  Father, Son, People

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• Do not admire the warriors; do not admire the fighters; condemn the fist! Get rid of this low culture of wildness! Admire the nonviolent; applaud the peaceful; despise the brute force!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Warrior, Peaceful, Culture

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• Excellent flatterers welcome attentive audiences; mighty potentates enjoy public praise. In the most pleasing situation, a flatterer would genuinely admire the flatteree, please that person, please other present company, be pleased to stagger rivals, and get something out of it: applause, promotion, a favor, reciprocal praise. Flattery is as social as a banquet.

  Willis Regier

  Rivals, Favors, Welcome

  Willis Goth Regier (2007). “In Praise of Flattery”, p.4, U of Nebraska Press

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• I don't see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I feel connected to all kinds of women. I am angry because I think we've been mistreated throughout history in different countries, including America. I admire women.

  Salma Hayek

  Country, Moving, Thinking

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• I think the tragedy of Barack Obama's presidency is that although a lot of people around the world really admire Barack Obama a lot, they don't admire the American political and economic model as much as they used to.

  Peter Beinart

  Thinking, Economic Models, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The work of Liszt I most admire is the music he wrote toward the end of his life. This is often music of tremendous inventiveness. The music seems to be seeking something. It tends to be restless, unpredictable, often very sad.

  Michael Hersch

  Very Sad, Restless, Ends

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• I admire actresses who are good to women. I don't like the ones who just don't like women. You can feel it. They're degrading themselves.

  Sandra Bullock

  Actresses, Feels, Degrading

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• In poor environment, I find great inspiration. Many of the men and women whom I admire as artists, the things they write, the songs they sing, the admission is filled with inspired moments to overcome oppression.

  Harry Belafonte

  Song, Inspiration, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I admire the good samaritan, but I don't want to be one.I don't want to spend my life picking up people by the side of the road after they have been beaten up and robbed.I want to change the Jericho road, so that everybody has an opportunity for a job, education, security, health.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jobs, Opportunity, People

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• We admire Chaucer for his sturdy English wit.... But though it is full of good sense and humanity, it is not transcendent poetry.For picturesque description of persons it is, perhaps, without a parallel in English poetry; yet it is essentially humorous, as the loftiest genius never is.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Humorous, Humanity, Genius

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.462, Modern Library

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• As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that I shall not go out of my way to admire the hole which he made.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Crazy, Pride, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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