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• We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.

  Graydon Carter

  Elephants, Self, Empathy

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• Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, People, Shining

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.345, Oxford Paperbacks

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• I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened the Democrats' spine during the health care debate. I admire the way Barack Obama has raised a dog in the White House without ever putting it on the roof of the car for a vacation drive.

  Gail Collins

  Dog, Vacation, White

  "Politicians, Love ’Em or Hate ’Em". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. September 21, 2011.

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• I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Writing, Years, People

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• Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without giving too much of themselves away. Lorrie Moore comes to mind, as does David Sedaris. When they write, the reader thinks that they're being trusted as a friend.

  Sloane Crosley

  Writing, Emotional, Thinking

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• I am sure I am one of 2000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

  Park Chan-wook

  World, Directors, Film

  "Park life". Interview with Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2006.

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• I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but Mad Men changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.

  Park Chan-wook

  Men, Air, Ideas

  "On my radar: Park Chan-wook". Interview with Corinne Jones, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2013.

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• Not that there is anything wrong with confessional songwriting, there are plenty of people that do that I admire. I think it is great; it just isn't how I do things.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Thinking, People, Songwriting

  "Zooey Deschanel switches from acting to singing". www.timesfreepress.com. July 12, 2013.

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• I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.

  Jenny Eclair

  People, World, Abyss

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• You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Leave Me Alone, Trying, Respecting Others

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• I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster.

  Richard Eyre

  Thinking, Self, Oysters

  "A life in theatre: Richard Eyre" by Andrew Dickson, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2010.

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• My dad turned me onto Peter Sellers as a kid. I loved the fact that he was a unique combination of being extremely subtle and over-the-top all at the same time, and that's a hard thing to do. I admire that.

  Will Ferrell

  Dad, Kids, Unique

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• The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

  Anatole France

  Funny, Book, Reading

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• I admire people like Warren Buffett that are donating so much money to charity.

  Bethenny Frankel

  People, Charity, Buffett

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• Generally, we admire the thing we are not.

  Stephen Fry

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

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• The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Crazy, Men, Ideas

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• To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven.

  Delphine de Girardin

  Love You, Fire, Idols

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• I don't really have a style icon but I really admire the way people dress like Gaga, Rihanna and Gwen Stefani. It's good to be inspired by singers who write music and dress incredibly - rather than models and people in the fashion industry who dress immaculately anyway because it's their style.

  Ellie Goulding

  Fashion, Writing, Icons

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

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• It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.

  Sam Harris

  Mother, Children, Alaska

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• I admire when people take the harder path, not because they are masochistic and want to beat themselves up, but because you actually kind of learn more and I think you grow more.

  Josh Hartnett

  Thinking, People, Want

  "Josh Hartnett Interview - RESURRECTING THE CHAMP". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 21, 2007.

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• I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director that I admire.

  Josh Hartnett

  Character, Interesting, Directors

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• Sometimes you have to be a diva. All the artists I admire from Madonna to Whitney to Mariah have all been called divas. If you are strong, if you have vision, if you are an artist, you have to do what you believe in. And if you get called a diva for it, then so what.

  Jessie J

  Strong, Believe, Artist

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

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• I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.

  LL Cool J

  Creativity, Artist, Listening

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• I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

  Angelina Jolie

  Grateful, People, Honor

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• There's people who I admire like... Dr. Dre, Puff Daddy, Master P, people who built their stuff and are still going.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Daddy, People, Drs

  "Being Wiz Khalifa is rather easy these days". Interview With Allison Stewart, articles.chicagotribune.com. October 18, 2012.

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