I Admire Quotes
377 quotes by 346 authors
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I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.
— David Bowie
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True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
— Charlotte Bronte
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Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table,…
— Geraldine Brooks
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The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all very natural, sort…
— Michael Caine
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He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
— Winston Churchill
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I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.
— Maya Angelou
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I think that my strong determination for justice comes from the very strong, dynamic personality of my father ... I have rarely ever met a…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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How often I admire the taste shown in the garden which, within the house, may be indifferent. Here is an art which is today probably…
— William Rothenstein
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I admire women who can be feminists and fight for women's rights, who believe in our powers as individuals and yet not apologize for beauty.
— Olivia Wilde
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Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire…
— John Keats
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Not only do I admire Jordan's accomplishments and his phenomenal basketball ability, but also the way he has conducted himself on and off the court.…
— Elgin Baylor
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I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.
— Margaret Drabble
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I'm rather pro-prostitution, I admire people who do it. It can't be much fun. Thank goodness for it. People need relief or they become murderers.
— Karl Lagerfeld
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Success isn't winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can't control all of them. Success means doing as…
— Aimee Mullins
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I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these…
— Georg Baselitz
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The only tactics I admire are do-or-die
— Herb Elliott
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I feel like there are so many people I admire for so many reasons that I can't look at one person's life and say, "I…
— Blake Lively
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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
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I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a claim that one is in control of what one recounts; I think…
— Harold Brodkey
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I think there are many feminists who would say that I am not a feminist. I love women, I have a lot of girlfriends, I…
— Stephenie Meyer
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