#admired

When people ask what were the qualities of Bobby Kennedy that they most admired, it was first that he was tough. Second, he told the truth and third, he stood up for the little guy. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#ask #bobby #bobby kennedy #first #guy

Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some of them I have admired over the years. ↗

— Clarence Clemons

#am #had #i #i am #me

Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent. ↗

— Cleopatra

#more #never #than

I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#admired #age #because #black #boy

You're never going to see the fat Elvis in me. People I admired like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and John Belushi all died at 27. I've got jeans older than that. ↗

— Jon Bon Jovi

#died #elvis #fat #going #got

Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly. ↗

— Henry Knox

#admired #apt #assessed #been #collected

I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did. ↗

— Dar Williams

#did #i #i was raised #leaders #left

I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#exactly #found #how #i #just

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep. ↗

— Alan Patrick Herbert

#conception #cross #having #lack #living

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired. ↗

— John Milius

#been #critics #darling #everybody #i