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• Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it.

  Julie Christie

  People, Might, Admiration

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• Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain.

  Dave Pelzer

  Effort, Purpose, Vain

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• Nobody admires anyone else without qualification. If they do they're after an image, not a person.

  Scott Lynch

  Qualifications, Persons, Ifs

  Scott Lynch (2013). “The Republic of Thieves”, p.251, Del Rey

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• Transform jealousy to admiration, and what you admire will become part of your life.

  Yoko Ono

  Jealousy, Admiration

  Yoko Ono (2013). “Acorn”, p.207, Algonquin Books

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• The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Study, Masterpiece, Effects

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
  Life is beauty, admire it.
  Life is a dream, realize it

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Dream, Opportunity

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• There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible; the latter on small ones and pleasing; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other, we are flattered, into compliance.

  Edmund Burke

  Differences, Sublime, And Love

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.118

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• Look, none of the artists who I admire or respect have ever shied away from a role because it might make them unpopular with somebody.

  Matt Bomer

  Artist, Looks, Might

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• As long as one can admire and love, then one is young forever.

  Pablo Casals

  Love, Long, Forever

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• I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself.

  Shakira

  People, Controversial, Periods

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• Oscar night is a ridiculous night where you go to these parties and you see everyone that you've ever wanted to work with and admire.

  Jordana Brewster

  Party, Night, Oscars

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

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• The uniformity and obedience of the media, which any dictator would admire...

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, Politics, Anarchy

  "Turning the Tide: U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1985.

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• While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.

  Clifford Stoll

  People, Feelings, Different

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• A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Fool, Humour, Greater

  'L'Art poètique' canto 1, l. 232

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• Be the kind of person others admire, can count on, trust, and enjoy spending time with. After you have developed that reputation, people will start to ask you what you do and you will be amazed at how many people will want to work with you. You will attract others based on your character.

  Larry Winget

  Motivational, Trust, Time

  Larry Winget (2007). “It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault”, p.211, Penguin

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• Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

  Samuel Johnson

  Teacher, Angel, Men

  Samuel Johnson (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.294, Harvard University Press

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• I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

  Alice Munro

  Writing, Bridges, Play

  "Go ask Alise". Interview with Newyorker, www.newyorker.com. February 19, 2001.

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• Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.

  Kabir

  Hammers, Bears, Preacher

  "Bijak". Sakhi, 168. Translation by Yashwant K. Malaiya based on that of Puran Sahib,

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• Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave.

  Ellen Burstyn

  Art, Appreciate, Acting

  "Ellen Burstyn - part two". Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2000.

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• Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, 'Another romantic comedy?' You see her in something like 'Walk the Line' and think, 'God, you're so great!' And then you think, 'Why is she doing these stupid romantic comedies?' But of course, it's for money and status.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Stupid, Epic

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• I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

  Frank Sinatra

  Men, Truth Is, Subjects

  "The Way You Wear Your Hat : Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin'". Book by Bill Zehme, 1997.

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• I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.

  Alice Walker

  Buddhist, Believe, Free Spirit

  "Redemption songs" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2005.

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• I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Funny, Hilarious, Humorous

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• As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Poverty, Pity, Virtue

  'The Soul of Man under Socialism'

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• I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.

  Taylor Kitsch

  Actors, Littles, Kitsch

  "Taylor Made for Texas". Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. March 7, 2012.

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