Admire Quotes
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We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance...We admire...the Fibres of every Muscle, and ought still more to admire their disposition in the Brain, where an infinite number of them contained in a very small Space, do each execute their particular Offices without confusion or disorder.
Nicolas Steno
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I think I'm way too much of a control freak to co-author anything with anyone. I have a hard enough time writing with myself! I admire people that can do it, but it's not for me.
Sarah Dessen
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Who exactly do you want to be? What kind of person do you want to be? What are your personal ideals? Whom do you admire? What are their special traits that you would make your own It's time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to become wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become. If you have a daybook, write down who you're trying to be, so that you can refer to this self-determination. Precisely describe the demeanor you want to adopt so that you may preserve it when you are by yourself or with other people.
Epictetus
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I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.
Catherine Deneuve
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I regret not dancing more, just cutting loose on the dance floor. I still admire those who don't care much about what others think of them.
Neil Patrick Harris
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The difficult part of writing about someone you don't admire is that it's easy to demonize them. What you get then is a cackling villain, twirling their mustache at every dastardly deed they commit.
Andrew Shaffer
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
Stephen Fry
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I like people who are as unlike me as possible, which is not an expression of self disgust or self hatred, but it's just that you know you obviously particularly admire things that you recognize yourself as not having.
Stephen Fry
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I just admire my mother very much.
Carrie Fisher
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I admire actresses who are good to women. I don't like the ones who just don't like women. You can feel it. They're degrading themselves.
Sandra Bullock
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You can admire people for sure, and they're worth admiring, but you need to find that special thing about yourself. It takes working hard, getting the technique, and learning to sing and all that stuff, but the master class is about bringing yourself to the role.
Susan Egan
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Passion is a quality I admire in a woman.
Cate Blanchett
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Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire.
Melvyn Douglas
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
William Cowper
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I admire the work of brilliant actresses such as Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Helen Mirren, who have had such varied careers. They have never stopped working, and they are as great today as they ever were.
Cate Blanchett
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Would the child you were yesterday admire the person you are today? If not, adjust for desired results.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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I admire people who just speak the truth.
Woody Harrelson
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I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.
Paul Newman
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I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good at it.
Diane Ackerman
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You always admire what you really don't understand.
Blaise Pascal
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Idolizing is a strong word, though. I'm happy that people respond well to the work I'm doing now. If anyone admires what I'm doing in any way, then I'm really proud of it.
Scott Wolf
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We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.
William Feather
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A cynic sees little to admire in the world, while the world sees even less to admire in him.
Evan Esar
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You don't sit there at twenty-five, unpublished, inexperienced, and respond to Susan Sontag's editorial suggestions like a little snot, rejecting every one of them. But it had a lot to do with the fact that I didn't admire Susan's own fiction.
Sigrid Nunez