#admire

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that road crew had read a book in 10 years, but there was something about the way they lived I really admired. ↗

— Richard Russo

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Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

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I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else. ↗

— Tom Glazer

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The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero. ↗

— Dawn French

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I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

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That's what I so admired about Johnny Cash and June Carter. Their music wasn't a big influence on me. It was their character, their individual styles, what they were like as people. They weren't afraid to stick out. ↗

— Shelby Lynne

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The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness. ↗

— David Mamet

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I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy. ↗

— John McGahern

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