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• I really admire people who are extraordinarily tolerant and patient.

  Holly Hunter

  People, Patient

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

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• It's great to admire other people's fashion choices, but I don't think you should idolise anyone.

  Cat Deeley

  Fashion, Thinking, People

  "Cat Deeley: five things I know about style" by Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2010.

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• If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Way, Behave, Oneself

  Irvin D. Yalom (1980). “Existential Psychotherapy”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

  James A. Garfield

  Integrity, Men, Brave

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• You always admire what you really don't understand. - Eleanor Roosevelt

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Admiration, Admiring, Eleanor

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• A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

  Israel Zangwill

  Clever, Stupid, Silly

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• Take back your light. Know that when you're in awe of someone else's greatness, you're really seeing yourself. Identify what you most admire or love about others and see how you can nourish those qualities and bring them out in yourself. Instead of fixating on someone else's brilliance, find ways to develop and demonstrate your own.

  Debbie Ford

  Love Yourself, Greatness, Light

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• We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Long, Wells

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.111, HarperCollins UK

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• The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Desire, Cripples, Please

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

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• Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english.

  James Joyce

  Tolerance, Magnificent, Broadmindedness

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• Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

  John Milton

  May, Riches, Soil

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 690 (1667)

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• Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

  Maya Angelou

  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Art

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• There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

  Victor Hugo

  Halloween, Greatness, Mountain

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6986, Delphi Classics

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• The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Dream, Hope, Life Lesson

  "Animal Dreams". Book by Barbara Kingsolver, 1990.

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• It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Book, School

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.284, OUP Oxford

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• It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

  Steve Winwood

  Music, Passion, Discipline

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

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• I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Lasts, Facts, Poet

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• I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Thankfulness, I Am Thankful, I Can

  Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry (2003). “Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology”, p.225, Verso

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• The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Writing, Way, Study

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• To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;)
  Is the only method that I know,
  To make men happy, and to keep them so.

  Thomas Creech

  Men, Admiration, Method

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 9), 1922.

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• I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway.

  Greg Egan

  Thinking, Decision, Lost

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• Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.

  Allegra Huston

  Spirit, Bigs, Dwell On The Past

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• Honesty is the biggest thing I admire, respect, and look for. And it's something that's kind of disappearing in some people nowadays.

  Mats Sundin

  Honesty, People, Looks

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• Anytime you get to join a group of people you admire and respect, you want to keep those doors open.

  James Wolk

  Doors, People, Groups

  "'Happy Endings' Guest James Wolk Invigorated by Comedic Turn, Open to Pilots" by Michael O'Connell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 8, 2012.

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• We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Wise, People, May

  Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. by A.G. Estrange”, p.21

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