Admired Quotes
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I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.
Dan Bucatinsky -
I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.
F. Sionil Jose
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I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.
Naguib Mahfouz -
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
Malcolm McDowell -
I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
Patricia McBride -
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
Simone de Beauvoir -
I admired anyone who could unsettle people.
J. G. Ballard
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That's why I loved Dinah Washington. She sung jazz, but they called her the Queen of the Blues. She had the control and sophistication of jazz in her note selection and how to attack a song or certain lines, but then attacked it with a painful force of blues behind it. That's why I admired her so much, because of that versatility.
Andra Day -
Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?
Epictetus -
He (George Harrison) told me he really, really admired John Lennon. He probably wanted John's acceptance pretty bad, you know?
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -
Those were always the guys that I admired. I think I've maintained a relatively sort of low-key profile. I try to do good work and make it about that.
Jason Lee -
Ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you.
Oscar Wilde -
I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.
Billy Joel
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I've always admired people with really strong presences and felt that caring about the visual component of what you do is not intrinsically superficial or vain.
Douglas Glenn Colvin Ramones -
I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug addicts but they had fun. They were real people. They formed the culture of American literature. Hemingway admired Tolstoy, Tolstoy admired Pushkin, and Mailer admired Hemingway. It all flows down. The greats are all connected. One day I'm gonna write a book myself. The first chapter will be about what a rough deal my momma got. She believed in you guys and your society.
Mike Tyson -
It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are.
Bradford Cox -
It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self.
Richard Wilbur -
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle -
Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.
Blaise Pascal
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I have seen only yoU, I have admired only yoU, I desire only You.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
One is more admired for claiming to do good than for proving to be right.
Emmett Tyrrell -
Most women you know are very much interested in the man who is reputed to be deeply admired by other women.
Arthur Desmond -
He admired writers whose own stories were as interesting as the ones they wrote.
Adam Langer