#admire

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me. ↗

— Richard Bach

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I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works. ↗

— Ann Beattie

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The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

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I always admired Stanley Kubrick for the fact that he managed to beat the system somehow. I think he kind of had it all figured out. ↗

— Joel Coen

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As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire. ↗

— William Congreve

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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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