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• The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have been taught to admire) is about love and death, while mere popular fiction like this is about sex and violence. One reader's sex, alas, is another's love; and one's violence, another's death.

  Gene Wolfe

  Sex, Mean, Fiction

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• I love and admire everyone who is different. I love that. The 'jet set' is banal. 'Good taste' is banal. Eccentricity is chic. Good taste paralyzes. But punk or street fashion or a tattoo-covered body, that is interesting to me, and that I love. I didn't go to fashion school. I learned from watching couture shows on TV and reading magazines. That made me dream.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Tattoo, Dream, Fashion

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• The only good grades I ever got in school before I was kicked out were for creative writing. I thought that fiction might be in my future but then my career took a different path once the Beatles showed me what a blast being in a band could be. Writing my memoir Late, Late at Night reminded me how much I love the craft. So I decided to give fiction a shot again.Magnificent Vibration is the result. I’m still not quite sure where it came from, but once I got going, it practically wrote itself. I’ve heard writers I admire speak of that phenomenon, so maybe I’m on the right track.

  Rick Springfield

  Writing, School, Night

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• Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it

  Zhuangzi

  Men, Judging, Chinese

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• I admire the Pope. I have a lot of respect for anyone who can tour without an album.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Humor, Albums

  Rita Rudner (1993). “Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature”, Penguin Group USA

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• We cannot grasp the true meaning of the divine holiness by thinking of someone or something very pure and then raising the concept to the highest degree we are capable of. God's holiness is not simply the best we know infinitely bettered. We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensible and unattainable. The natural man is blind to it. He may fear God's power and admire His wisdom, but His holiness he cannot even imagine.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Unique, Men, Thinking

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.114, Fig

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• Let the record show that you can be a United States senator for 21 years. You can be 79 years old. You can be the chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and one of the most recognizable and widely-respected veteran public servants in your nation. But if you are female while all of those things, men who you defeat in arguments will still respond to you by calling you hysterical and telling you to calm down. They'll patronize you and say they admire your passion, 'sweetie,' but they deal in facts, not your silly, girly feelings. It's inescapable. You can set your watch by it.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Girly, Silly, Passion

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• What each man honours before all else, what before all things he admires and loves, this for him is God.

  Origen

  Honor, And Love, All Things

  "Selections from the Commentaries and Homilies of Origen".

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• O my mind,Make your speech egoless.Then everyoneWill appreciate, admire and adore you.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Appreciate, Mind, Speech

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• Many men admire strong women but they don't love them. Some women succeed at being strong and also tender, but most of those who have intended to walk alone, making their own way, have lost their happiness.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Strong Women, Way, Succeed

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• I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Past, Hitting

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• When I think of a lot of the players I admire, they could always play their parts without hiding behind distortion and sustain. Put the time in. Hear your mistakes. Yeah, it sucks, it's humbling, it makes you want to throw the guitar out the window. But if you work on your mistakes, they'll eventually go away, and you'll become a strong player.

  John Petrucci

  Strong, Mistake, Player

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• When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.

  E. W. Howe

  Book, Loan, Enthusiastic

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• Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I’m inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its engineering. It’s so elaborate. In fact I try and transpose the beauty of a bird to women.

  Alexander McQueen

  Eagles, Engineering, Color

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• I profoundly admire Aldous Huxley, both for his philosophy and uncompromising sincerity. But I disagree with his advocacy of 'the chemical opening of doors into the Other World', and with his belief that drugs can procure 'what Catholic theologians call a gratuitous grace'. Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one's own nervous system.

  Arthur Koestler

  Philosophy, Doors, Other Worlds

  Arthur Koestler (1981). “Kaleidoscope: essays from Drinkers of infinity, and The heel of Achilles and later pieces and stories”, Vintage

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• America has had the best university system in the world for a long time. And so we have been innovators, not only in the discoveries as proven by Nobel Prizes in chemistry and physics and that sort of thing, but we've been able to put that into practical application with new gadgets that people admire.

  Jimmy Carter

  Discovery, America, Long

  Interview with Andrea Useem, bigthink.com. November 30, 2010.

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• There are directors that I want to work with and that I admire. You can love a script, but if it doesn't have a good director, it won't be that.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Scripts, Directors, Want

  "Jennifer Lawrence Talks THE HUNGER GAMES, the Mall Tour, Director Gary Ross, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 12, 2012.

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• [Kurt] Vonnegut was a writer whose great gift was that he always seemed to be talking directly to you. He wasn't writing, he wasn't showing off, he was just telling you, nobody else, what it was like, what it was all about. That intimacy made him beloved. We can admire the art of John Updike or Philip Roth, but we love Vonnegut.

  Michael Dirda

  Art, Writing, Talking

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation.

  David Quammen

  Literature, Language, Speak

  "Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic". Book by David Quammen, 2012.

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• Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life—but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations.

  Sarah Churchwell

  Art, Order, Revelations

  Sarah Churchwell (2013). “Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby”, p.23, Hachette UK

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• You will never go wrong in concluding that a man has once loved deeply whatever he hates, and loves it yet; that he once admired and still admires what he scorns, that he once greedily desired what now disgusts him.

  Georg Groddeck

  Hate, Men, And Love

  Georg Groddeck (2015). “The Book of the It”, p.73, Ravenio Books

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• Who set Rome on fire? The man we must admire. For killing his wife, and taking the life of mother and brother and so many others, while plucking his damnable lyre.

  Paul L. Maier

  Mother, Brother, Men

  Paul L. Maier (1991). “The Flames of Rome”, p.298, Kregel Publications

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• I admire those old road dogs, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan. That's their life.

  Robbie Robertson

  Dog, Bob, Dylan

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• A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis. Like statist language, censored and censoring. Ruthless in its policing duties, it has no desire or purpose other than maintaining the free range of its own narcotic narcissism, its own exclusivity and dominance. However moribund, it is not without effect for it actively thwarts the intellect, stalls conscience, suppresses human potential. Unreceptive to interrogation, it cannot form or tolerate new ideas, shape other thoughts, tell another story, fill baffling silences.

  Toni Morrison

  Ideas, Silence, Desire

  Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993

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• As much as we admire all the characteristics of a Ronald Reagan, as soon as something goes wrong, people will hate those same characteristics.

  Robert Orben

  Hate, People, Characteristics

  "A former president's gag order - Ford's symposium examines humor in the Oval Office". Dave Hoekstra, Chicago Sun-Times, September 28, 1986.

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