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• Things have to hit for the moment. That's one of the reasons I'm into video; the image has to hit immediately. I adore video and the whole cutting up of it.

  David Bowie

  Cutting, Video, Moments

  "Beat Godfather Meets Glitter Mainman: William Burroughs Interviews David Bowie". Interview with William Burroughs, www.rollingstone.com. February 28, 1974.

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• I dont have children, but I have 17 nieces and nephews, and they more than make up for anything that I can do. I have a stepdaughter, and I adore her to pieces, and I think about adoption. There are so many kids at different ages and stages that need families.

  Lauren Velez

  Children, Niece, Kids

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• It took me a really long time to decide who I want my circle to be and who I want to surround myself with. Once you make that choice, that is where I feel like I have built my strength. This is my life choice. These are the people that make me feel good about me, and that I love and adore and will do anything for.

  Katie Aselton

  Circles, Long, People

  "Katie Aselton and Lake Bell Talk BLACK ROCK, the Challenging Shoot, and Bell Directing Her First Feature IN A WORLD…". Interview, collider.com. May 16, 2013.

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• By the time I was eleven years old, I had been taught that nature, far from abhorring a Vacuum, positively adores it.

  Edith Sitwell

  Nature, Years, Vacuums

  Edith Sitwell (2011). “Taken Care Of: An Autobiography”, p.27, A&C Black

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• People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

  Aldous Huxley

  Love, Technology, Thinking

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• I certainly do not adore the writer's discipline. I have lost lovers, endangered friendships, and blundered into eccentricity, impelled by a concentration which usually is to be found only in the minds of people about to be executed in the next half hour.

  Maya Angelou

  Lost Love, Discipline, People

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• I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.

  May Sarton

  Solitude, Thirst, Consuming

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• Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.

  Iris Murdoch

  Art, Giving, Shapes

  Iris Murdoch (1987). “The Unicorn”, p.80, Penguin

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• The fish adores the bait.

  George Herbert

  Bait, Fishes

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.310

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• Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion; the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Religious, Humble, Humility

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• They were soul mates, my mother and father. They claimed to adore each other, as if the word 'adore' meant 'argue with ceaselessly.

  Merrill Markoe

  Mother, Father, Soul

  Merrill Markoe (2007). “It's My F---ing Birthday: A Novel”, p.8, Villard

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• I adore tradition. I cannot stand habit. Simply to repeat is nothing, also to destroy is nothing. Tradition is never interrupted, we are always evolving but never interrupted.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Tradition, Habit, Evolve

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• I adore being hitched. It's so extraordinary to discover one unique individual you need to irritate for whatever remains of your life.

  Rita Rudner

  Unique, Needs, Individual

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• I value science--none can prize it more,
  It gives ten thousand motives to adore:
  Be it religious, as it ought to be,
  The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee.

  Abraham Coles

  Religious, Heart, Science

  Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.22

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• Faults! I adore faults! I can never find too many in any creature.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Faults, Creatures, I Can

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• I adore my black skin and my kinky hair. The Negro hair is more educated than the white man's hair. Because with Negro hair, where you put it, it stays. It's obedient. The hair of the white, just give one quick movement, and it's out of place. It won't obey. If reincarnation exists I want to come back black.

  Carolina Maria de Jesus

  Men, White Man, Hair

  Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

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• I adore gardening, and whenever I have time off, that is my passion.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Passion, Gardening, Time Off

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If I were trapped in one city and had to eat one nation's cuisine for the rest of my life, I would not mind eating Japanese. I adore Japanese food. I love it.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Cities, Mind, Cuisine

  "Arcane, Urbane & Insane Bourdain!". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• It's seldom that you get to work with one director more than once. I've worked with Clint Eastwood three times, but that's the only one that's happened with, simply because I adore his work.

  Morgan Freeman

  Directors, Three, Happened

  "Morgan Freeman talks about '5 Flights Up' - and more". Interview with Bill Goodykoontz, www.azcentral.com. May 6, 2015.

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• Very few of us are capable of being Free Thinkers, needing neither to adore nor to insult God, the insult often being an act of faith more profound than adoration.

  Alexandra David-Neel

  Profound, Being Free, Belief

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• The soul,
  Advancing ever to the source of light
  And all perfection, lives, adores, and reigns
  In cloudless knowledge, purity, and bliss.

  Henry Ware, Jr.

  Light, Perfection, Soul

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• I love English girls! I adore all their different accents. Who knows, I could find a British girlfriend on my travels!

  Austin Butler

  Girl, Different, British

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• I adore shooting photographs. It's like being a hunter. But some hunters are vegetarians - which is my
  relationship to photography.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Shooting, Hunters

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• People will invite you and seek you constantly if you learn how to give them the extreme pleasure of being clever. People adore the one who encourages them to display their conversational wares and admires the display.

  Margery Wilson

  Clever, People, Giving

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• The more I see of Italy, the more I adore the Italians. They have so much heart, so much cheerfulness and gaiety, so much good humor. And the way they sing! Every now and then, when a silence falls in the streets, it is broken by some sudden singing voice, with a mellowness and a sweetness that makes you thrill.

  Marie Van Vorst

  Fall, Heart, Voice

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