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• I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.

  Richard Bach

  Respect, Love Relationship, Want

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• It's disappointing when you finally get to meet someone you admire and he conducts himself as a jerk.

  David Letterman

  Jerk, Disappointing

  "David Letterman's 1984 Playboy Interview. A Candid Conversation with the Comedy Genius In His Youth". Playboy Interview, playboysfw.kinja.com. April 3, 2014.

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• I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Character, Thinking, Numbers

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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• I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Book, Character, Addiction

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• Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Fighting, Thinking, Actors

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 31, 2003.

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• I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Book, Reading

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.289, Cambridge University Press

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• I admire bull riders for their passion and the uniqueness each one of them has.

  Chris LeDoux

  Passion, Bulls, Riders

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• In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.

  Gustav Mahler

  Drama, Theatrical

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• The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Fire, World, Taught

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• Art is to be admired rather than explained. The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not precisely know why I admire a green granite, female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.

  Ezra Pound

  Pregnancy, Eye, Squares

  "Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts".

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• I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

  Ron Reagan

  Buddhist, Kindness, Teaching

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• I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Work, Men, Doe

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that.

  Shakira

  Art, Clothes, Cameras

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

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• I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

  Gene Tierney

  Addiction

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.

  Horace Walpole

  Political, Politics, Way

  Horace Walpole, John Wright (1840). “The letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: including numerous letters now first published from the original manuscripts”, p.313

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• I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Queens, Artist

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• I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Work, Integrity, Body

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• Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

  Saadi

  Wise, Ignorance, Order

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.155, Innovations and Information

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• I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.

  Cindy Sheehan

  War, President, United States

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• I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

  Charles Olson

  Envy, Poet, Reason

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• I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Running, Long, Actors

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• Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most

  Ethel Merman

  War, Hero, President

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that

  Kathleen Turner

  Women, Writing, Needs

  "Why I'm moving to Europe" by Sharon Krum, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2006.

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• Many admire, few know.

  Hippocrates

  Reality, Knows

  Hippocrates, Heraclitus (of Ephesus.), Paul Potter, Edward Theodore Withington (1959). “Hippocrates”

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• For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven?

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

  Blessed, Angel, Heaven

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1951). “Oration on the Dignity of Man”

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