I Admired Quotes

69 quotes by 65 authors

I can't say I ever loved my mother; I admired her. — Humphrey Bogart
My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers. — Sandra Bullock
I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around. — Michael Caine
My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman. — Jimmy Carter
Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one… — John Tuzo Wilson
I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I admire him for… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
I'm a huge fan of Mariah Carey. I admired her music for so long. It's hard to follow on her footstep. She's so successful. Mariah's… — Jessica Simpson
Every angle that I looked at was somebody who I admired and was better than me. So it made me very afraid. — Chris Bauer
I just found it interesting to talk to adults I admired, and to discover that the path they took was never all that clearly defined.… — Anderson Cooper
When I started Oracle, what I wanted to do was to create an environment where I would enjoy working. That was my primary goal. Sure,… — Larry Ellison
Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives… — Nikola Tesla
Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired. — Steven Bochco
I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with… — Thom Gunn
I can't honestly say where the inspiration for my work came from. I think it came from reading. It came from texts, from Nietzsche, Schopenhauer,… — Lebbeus Woods
I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself. — Georg Brandes
We took a bus to the nearby monastery of one of the last great Tang dynasty Chan masters, Yun-men. Yun-men was known for his pithy… — Stephen Batchelor
Yes, for a long time but I admired her and respected everything that I could sort of see in her from a distance, the pillars… — Andre Agassi
I admired and valued Robin as a colleague and friend and as one of the greatest parliamentarians of our time. His wife Gaynor and his… — Gordon Brown
What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try… — Magnus Carlsen
I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by… — Georg Baselitz

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