Admirer Quotes

• When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same.

  Boris Becker

  Children, Rooms, Kind

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• No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

  Fisher Ames

  Language, Purity, Reader

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• As a part owner, I'm going to be not only an admirer... but a nervous wreck.

  Roger Staubach

  Wrecks, Nervous, Owners

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• I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.

  Michael Caine

  Always Trying, Actors, Lasts

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. April 30, 2010.

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• I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Giving, Biographies, Eras

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• The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.

  Minna Antrim

  Beautiful, Pride, Actresses

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• I'm a great admirer of cartoons, because I can't do cartoons.

  Bruce McCall

  Cartoon, Because I Can, I Can

  "Tuning In to the Absurd". Interview with The New Yorker, www.newyorker.com. May 20, 2002.

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• I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the income tax or doubling it, I would vote yes on first blush.

  Jerry Falwell

  Strong, Income, Firsts

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• I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Thinking, Action, Tire

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

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• Haters are confused admirers who can’t understand why everybody else likes you

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Feb 23, 2014

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• It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

  Seneca the Younger

  Praise, Provoking, Commit

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• I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.

  Nicolas Cage

  Stars, Celebration, Horror

  "Nicolas Cage Exclusive Interview SEASON OF THE WITCH". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 3, 2011.

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• Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers.

  Theodore White

  Friends, November, Exertion

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• I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral Scratch' by the Buzzcocks, or 'Hippy Hippy Shake' by the Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I can put up with Chopin or shakuhachi flute in the background.

  Billy Childish

  Rocks, Blue, Years

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• You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Hate, Curiosity, No Friends

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.103, Random House

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• I'm such an admirer, I am an admirer of villains, especially working with so many great ones.

  Tom Felton

  Villain, Great Ones

  "Tom Felton Interview HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 1; Plus an Update on RISE OF THE APES". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 22, 2010.

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• I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue of poverty among the elderly. FDR believed in the greatness and generosity of Americans - but he was also a cold-blooded politician.

  Jon Meacham

  Believe, Greatness, Elderly

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• Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Few Friends, Talent, Great Talent

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• There's no one in the world close to Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is a phenomenon. He's brilliant. Just because his physique belies that, don't underestimate him.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Unique, Individuality, Admiration And Respect

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• Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

  John Wooden

  Life, Adversity, Men

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.162, B&H Publishing Group

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• Haters are just confused admirers.

  Justin Bieber

  Success, Hater, Confused

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• Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.

  Bill Vaughan

  Followers, Virtue

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• A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms not person than graces of mind, more admirers than friends, mole fools than wise men for attendants.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wise, Men, Grace

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• When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Beauty, Beautiful, Fashion

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

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• I'd rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.

  e. e. cummings

  Cute, Good Friend, Two

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