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• Sex is difficult to write about because it's just not sexy enough. The only way to write about it is not to write much. Let the reader bring his own sexuality into the text. A writer I usually admire has written about sex in the most off-putting way. There is just too much information.

  Toni Morrison

  Sexy, Writing, Too Much Information

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• We often judge cities by great public buildings. But we admire great cities because people live there in a beautiful way. You have to think about how each person will live there; you can't just think about abstract ideas.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Beautiful, Thinking, Cities

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• In fact, most of the time, people with similar information, similar beliefs and similar apparent choices will choose similar actions. So if you want to know why someone does what they do, start with what they know, what they believe and where they came from. Dismissing actions we don't admire merely because we don't care enough to have empathy is rarely going to help us make the change we seek. It doesn't help us understand, and it creates a gulf that drives us apart.

  Seth Godin

  Believe, People, Choices

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• Excellent flatterers welcome attentive audiences; mighty potentates enjoy public praise. In the most pleasing situation, a flatterer would genuinely admire the flatteree, please that person, please other present company, be pleased to stagger rivals, and get something out of it: applause, promotion, a favor, reciprocal praise. Flattery is as social as a banquet.

  Willis Regier

  Rivals, Favors, Welcome

  Willis Goth Regier (2007). “In Praise of Flattery”, p.4, U of Nebraska Press

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• I don't see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I feel connected to all kinds of women. I am angry because I think we've been mistreated throughout history in different countries, including America. I admire women.

  Salma Hayek

  Country, Moving, Thinking

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• I think the tragedy of Barack Obama's presidency is that although a lot of people around the world really admire Barack Obama a lot, they don't admire the American political and economic model as much as they used to.

  Peter Beinart

  Thinking, Economic Models, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In poor environment, I find great inspiration. Many of the men and women whom I admire as artists, the things they write, the songs they sing, the admission is filled with inspired moments to overcome oppression.

  Harry Belafonte

  Song, Inspiration, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I admire the good samaritan, but I don't want to be one.I don't want to spend my life picking up people by the side of the road after they have been beaten up and robbed.I want to change the Jericho road, so that everybody has an opportunity for a job, education, security, health.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jobs, Opportunity, People

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• As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that I shall not go out of my way to admire the hole which he made.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Crazy, Pride, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who divides the race into elect Irishmen and reprobate foreign devils (especially Englishmen) had better live on the Blaskets where he can admire himself without disturbance.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Race, Devil

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• I admire King Hussein his courage in leading his country for a long time.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Country, Kings, Long

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• Everywhere I go the coaches all tell me that Scholsey is the player they admire. But if they think they'll get him they're wasting their time! Paul is a Manc lad pure and simple. He loves the club and there's no chance of him leaving here. If ever he decided to go there would be a stampede, but he won't be going, he's here for life.

  Alex Ferguson

  Simple, Player, Thinking

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• We all have our own paths. That's the important thing of this movie. God's waiting there for everybody. Be true to who you are and true to your values - not to media, not to the influence of friends necessarily or people even that you admire. Be true to your heart and you'll find that path.

  Corbin Bernsen

  Heart, Media, People

  "Writer-director Corbin Bernsen finds a well-matched creative partner in 'Christian Mingle'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. February 2015.

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• Of course 'we humans' have a funny relationship with the beings with whom we share our planet. We eat them, we care for them, we admire them, we use them.

  April Gornik

  Funny Relationship, Use, Care

  "Our Real Wealth" by April Gornik, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2010.

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• Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.

  Samuel Smiles

  Riches, Claims, Distinction

  Samuel Smiles (1800). “Thrift”, p.314

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• What we should admire is the acute fulfillment of the unspoken assumptions, the smooth harmony of the whole activity, which only become evident in the final success.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Finals, Assumption, Harmony

  "On War (Book 3)". Book by Carl von Clausewitz, 1832.

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• Outsiders think of Silicon Valley as a success story, but in truth, it is a graveyard. Failure.. is Silicon Valley's greatest strength. Every failed product or enterprise is a lesson stored in the collective memory of the country. We not only don't stigmatize failure, sometime we even admire it. Venture Capitalists actually like to see a little failure in the resumes of entrepreneurs.

  Michael Malone

  Country, Memories, Thinking

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• When you admire the light, remember to give the darkness its due as well, because without it, the beauty of the light will disappear!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Light, Giving, Darkness

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• I love being on camera. And I love knowing what's going on in the world. Diane Sawyer is my favorite. She never seems to lower herself to get the job done. She just always carries herself well. I really admire her.

  Carrie Underwood

  Jobs, Love Is, Knowing

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• But the people I admire have always been people like Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson and Jack Lemmon.

  Evan Jones

  People, Brando, Nicholson

  Source: collider.com

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• I really admire police officers, surgeons, or anyone who works in high stressed situations.

  Yasmin Paige

  Police, Stressed, Situation

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I really admire really good reporters. Obviously not the gossip ones, but it could be quite an interesting profession, depending on what you're investigating.

  Katia Winter

  Interesting, Gossip, Profession

  Source: collider.com

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• I've still got Paul Scholes' shirt at home which I swapped with him once. When I was at Liverpool he was one of the players I liked most. Maybe he's not valued as much as he should be in England because of the style of football there and because he keeps a low profile. Perhaps he would have been more valued in Spain, where midfielders like him form part of the 'ideal.' Fans in Spain rate him very highly and I admire him a huge amount.

  Xabi Alonso

  Football, Home, Player

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

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• Brains are still unfashionable for women to wear, and it has always been proof of women's superiority that the more intelligent a man is, the more women admire him, while the bigger fool a woman is, the more men run after her.

  Dorothea Dix

  Running, Intelligent, Men

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• Tell Papa I admire him but from now on I plan to admire him from as far away as I can get.

  Budd Schulberg

  Papa, Far Away, Plans

  Budd Schulberg (2012). “Sparring with Hemingway: And Other Legends of the Fight Game”, p.19, Open Road Media

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