Admire Quotes - Page 23

• I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator's workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight.

  Robert Burns

  Sex, Night, Opposites

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• Have you heard about the women who stabbed her husband 37 times? I admire her restraint.

  Roseanne Barr

  Husband, Restraint, Heard

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• The English tourist in American literature wants above all things something different from what he has at home. For this reason the one American writer whom the English whole-heartedly admire is Walt Whitman. There, you will hear them say, is the real American undisguised. In the whole of English literature there is no figure which resembles his - among all our poetry none in the least comparable to Leaves of Grass

  Virginia Woolf

  Real, Home, Leaves Of Grass

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3129, Delphi Classics

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• I admire the way golfers handle themselves. But tennis players are a lot younger, as a rule. There aren't many teenagers on the golf tour.

  Pete Sampras

  Teenager, Golf, Player

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• Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.

  Jack Kirby

  Fields, Top Performers, Kind

  Interview with Leonard Pitts, Jr., kirbymuseum.org. 1986/1987.

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• Some period pieces are shot slightly objectively, a little bit, and some call it stuffy or dusty or old fashioned. I always felt that some of the films that I admire the most are the ones where they're intimate with the characters.

  Nikolaj Arcel

  Character, Pieces, Littles

  Source: collider.com

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• I still love it, every day. I get up and I love going to work. I love seeing it all happen, and I admire the people that we work with. I just hope that the films will continue to entertain audiences, as they have done for 50 years.

  Barbara Broccoli

  Years, People, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• My entire education in music was in reading interviews with bands like Stereolab and finding out about Brazilian music or a Romanian composer. You expose yourself to what people you look up to admire.

  Bradford Cox

  Reading, People, Looks

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I really admire visual storytelling that shows you what's happening, instead of tells you what's happening. I think it really forces the filmmaking to be very clear.

  John Kahrs

  Thinking, Storytelling, Force

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm ambitious for is to not get caught 'acting'. I want to really feel the role and not let people see the process, or to let them stand back and admire it, because I think that does finally get in the way.

  Harrison Ford

  Thinking, People, Ambitious

  "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Interview with William Thomas, www.empireonline.com. June, 2002.

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• There are a number of World War II historians I admire: Cornelius Ryan, Mark Stoler, Antony Beevor, to name a few. As for generals, there are those I admire as combat leaders and others I admire because they're great fun to write about.

  Rick Atkinson

  Fun, War, Writing

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• One of the presidents we could have done without.... There are some things I admire about Tyler, but there were also plenty of things that weren't so admirable.... The reason I have a certain amount of grudging respect for John Tyler is that he knew his own mind and stuck to his decisions.

  Harry S. Truman

  Decision, Mind, President

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• I don't apply [being a role model] to the choices I make. I feel like a role model is not necessarily someone you want to imitate, just someone you admire.

  Kristen Stewart

  Role Models, Choices, Roles

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• The people I admire most are those who are sensitive and want to create something or discover something, and do not see life in terms of power.

  E. M. Forster

  People, Want, Sensitive

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• Lies hold civilization together. If people ever seriously begin telling each other what they really think, there'd be no peace. Good-bye to tact. Good-bye to being polite. Good-bye to showing tolerance for other people's buffooneries. The fact that we claim to admire Truth is probably the biggest lie of all. But that's part of the charade, part of what makes us human, and we do not even think about it. In effect, we lie to ourselves. Lies are only despicable when they betray a trust.

  Jack McDevitt

  Lying, Thinking, Civilization

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• The more I learn about Mr. Romney, the less there is to admire.

  Henry Rollins

  Romney

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• I confess I do not admire naked boys. They always seem to me to need clothes, whereas one hardly sees why the lovely forms of girls should ever be covered up.

  Lewis Carroll

  Girl, Boys, Covered Up

  Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green (1989). “The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll”, p.235, Springer

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• Nobody's good. I hate it. I truly hate it. I mean, there's a lot of guys doing stuff I admire, but stand-up-wise I feel very alone. I really miss Bill Hicks. I wish I could have put him on my show. And I really miss Sam Kinison a lot. Richard Pryor's sick... It's like you get here and then, oh wait a minute, there's nobody here any more. I feel like the guy who finally got into Studio 54, three years too late, Duh, where are all the famous people?

  Chris Rock

  Wise, Hate, Mean

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I admire the hell out of her. You can't have sex with someone you admire.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Sex, Hell

  "Fictional character: Jerry Seinfeld". "Seinfeld/ The Sponge", December 1995.

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• I do want children. I study dads more. I watch what they go through. I admire my father more than I ever did and my brother and my sister.

  Adam Sandler

  Brother, Children, Dad

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. December 15, 2004.

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• I tremendously admire, and I think we all should, the great work done by our commander in chief, our president George Bush...

  Wesley Clark

  Thinking, President, Done

  "Judy Woodruff's Inside Politics", votesmart.org. October 20, 2003.

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• One that we can admire aesthetically and participate viscerally in. So the goal here, and we've had some early, small screenings, what seems to be kind of happening is that you come in thinking you're going to see a cool robot boxing movie, you don't expect this emotional underdog, father/son movie. And it's not one that's soft and overly sentimental, but hopefully it's one that's poignant.

  Shawn Anthony Levy

  Father, Son, Emotional

  Source: collider.com

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• There are people [in Uganda] who hate Idi Amin, a small amount. And then there are the people who really admire him, like a hero. And then there's a large group who say, 'We know that all these murders and atrocities occurred, but he did all these great things.'

  Forest Whitaker

  Hate, Hero, Uganda

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I am excited by... the new novel by Samantha Hunt. She's a writer I really admire a lot.

  Rick Moody

  Excited, Samantha, Hunts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Another thing rappers, I admire your rebellious spirit, but materialism is a form of mental slavery. Slow down on the jewelry, pick up a book.

  Dov Davidoff

  Book, Rapper, Slavery

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