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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody. — Simone De Beauvoir

There's been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I've always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too. — Dolly Parton

Would certainly not have admired Jesus Christ and he would have been horrified by St Paul - does — Alasdair MacIntyre

I have always admired and had enormous respect for Elizabeth Taylor. She was not only an incredible actress but an amazing woman as well. — Lindsay Lohan

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

Most male painters have historically admired the female form. It's got a lot going for it. — Stella McCartney

He was admired for never being at a loss for words and never wasting any either. — Garrison Keillor

One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected. — Bertrand Russell

Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. — Eve Ensler

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

Honesty is admired, and starves. — Juvenal

Terry Gilliam is someone I'd always deeply admired. I saw his films when I was a child. — Gwendoline Christie

I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to. — Patricia McBride

One thing that's great about seeing your kids is you see things that you admired in your parents. — Jon Voight

I admired anyone who could unsettle people. — J.G. Ballard

[...] Buddhism has been so much admired mainly for what it is not. — Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

It is not commercial success but originality and proof of autonomy which are admired. — Angela Phillips

I like to be admired from afar, and then complimented up close. — Gena Showalter

We can choose to be perfect and admired or to be real and loved. — Glennon Doyle Melton

Every director I've ever admired has a beard. — Peter Horton

A pity you were not born a woman in this life, Little King of Lesser Land, for you seek only to please and to be admired by all. — Sharon Kay Penman

I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear! — Jules Verne

I admired Bohr very much. We had long talks together, long talks in which Bohr did practically all the talking. — Paul Dirac

I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it. — Aimee Bender

I'd always admired Diane Keaton, but I'd never met her. — Fred Melamed

She feels and she cries. It is to be admired. — James Frey

I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors. — Robert De Niro

People go their whole lives wanting to be admired for their hidden qualities. — Hanif Kureishi

If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store. — Michael Nutter

Youth may be admired for vigor, but gray hair gives prestige to old age. — Eugene H. Peterson

The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them. — E.W. Howe

The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I've always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational. — Cheryl James

Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him. — Leon Askin

My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman. — Jimmy Carter

He has always admired writers who each day begin a journey towards the unknown and who nevertheless spend all their time sitting in a room. — Enrique Vila-Matas

What she loved was being admired, being wanted, being pursued - but she did not think she wanted ever to be caught. — Alison Weir

Dermot Reeve was so self-obsessed that even on the local nudist beach he only admired himself — Simon Hughes

I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy. — Graham Greene

No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way. — Jock Sturges

He decided not to shoot the tall stranger, mainly because he admired his soft felt hat. — Larry McMurtry

Growing up in New York, I loved watching my grandmother Estee put on her make-up - I always admired her sense of style. — Aerin Lauder

No doubt, a father he is the most respected man in our lives, the most admired person. He is the protector, and the guardian of our lives. — Ama H. Vanniarachchy

Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes. — Roger Scruton

There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired ... they're all incredibly well-read. — Steve Toltz

Although Grandpa never put it in words for me, one thing I learned from him was that being admired gives you more power than being feared. — Dean Koontz

I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around. — Michael Caine

The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others. — George Jean Nathan

One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Cities are not static objects to be feared or admired, but are instead a living process that residents are changing all the time. — Annalee Newitz

Growing up in Memphis, I have always admired St. Jude's for the magnificent work they do. — Ginnifer Goodwin

He [George Harrison] told me he really, really admired John [Lennon]. He probably wanted John's acceptance pretty bad, you know? — Tom Petty

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

The Gospel which we possess was not given to us only to be admired, talked of, and professed - but to be practiced. — J.C. Ryle

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired. — Aeschylus

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. — Naguib Mahfouz

I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion. — Olivier Theyskens

I've always admired Gene Hackman, Jack Lemmon, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck. I'm showing my age here. — Tim DeKay

I've always been intrigued by the Senate, and admired many of the people who have served there. — Hillary Clinton

When I think about filmmakers and actresses that I have admired my whole life, I've admired their entire body of work. — Dakota Johnson

She stroked one of the geranium's petals, inhaling its particular bitter fragrance, which she admired for its bold air of unapology. — Ellen Airgood

The most arrogant and admired people have a special kind of ignorance that the ignorant cannot see. — Robin Sacredfire

I admired a tremendous number of photographers, but for some reason I arrived at a point of view of my own. — Saul Leiter

I've admired Bill Kauffman's books for years ... appealing, elegantly written, and entirely American. — Howard Frank Mosher

I've always been admired as a musician and painter but not spiritual writer, and that's why God's an artist, not priest. — Robin Sacredfire

Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance. — Seneca The Younger

Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired. — Walter Darby Bannard

Jesus' life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue. — John Ortberg

Nature will not be admired by proxy. — Winston Churchill

He admired this too: their ability to preserve joy at any cost, the way prehistoric man might have preserved fire. — Daniel Alarcon

Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. — Edmund Waller

He wanted to say that he yearned to accomplish something extraordinary, to be admired like a man riding at the head of a great procession. — Ken Liu

She admired him; she was used to clutching her hands together in his wake and heaving audible sighs. — F Scott Fitzgerald

What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him. — Magnus Carlsen

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers. — Sandra Bullock

I've always admired your ability to make jokes when faced with adversity. — Jim Butcher

The lot of the bride
to be wed before bed
desired until rotten.
The lot of the author
to be read before bed
admired then forgotten. — Roman Payne

Liberality in gifts and expenditure which, since his followers lived off it, was extolled as the most admired attribute of a noble. — Barbara W. Tuchman

As I did, there, in perfect condition, to be admired by five sets of wondering eyes, was an enormous, glistening, moist, chocolate cake. — Brother Andrew

I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics — Hunter S. Thompson

Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant. — Paulo Coelho

Turks have long admired the sultan, Mehmet II, for his military triumphs, especially his capture of Constantinople, now known as Istanbul, in 1453. — Stephen Kinzer

I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice. — Malcolm McDowell

I just had an out-of-body experience. Niall Stella just took off my shirt and admired my chest." "Do you need to text someone? — Christina Lauren

I think guitarists are really over-admired and over-revered. — Jonny Greenwood

Every angle that I looked at was somebody who I admired and was better than me. So it made me very afraid. — Chris Bauer

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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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

This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used. — Henry David Thoreau

My father worked real hard. I admired him. My father taught me you needed to work with your brain and not your back. I've made that a passion. — Don Cornelius

There might be some weirdness mixed in with being admired like that, but I think there's more good. — Cassandra Clare

Nothing I have ever written has been admired as much as the announcement of my death. — Harold Brodkey

I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions. — Virginia Woolf

Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated. — John Ralston Saul

I admired anybody who could make a buck with his drawing. — Jack Kirby

I loved being admired by Richard. It was the kind of admiration that mattered to me. I felt adored, worshipped. — Elizabeth Taylor

If you are not admired no one will take the trouble to disapprove. — Truman Capote

Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it. — Witold Gombrowicz

A true champion is not judged by how much he or she is admired, but by how well they can stand at the face of adversity. — John Cena

Selfishness has never been admired. — C.S. Lewis

Some cities are women and must be loved; others are men and can only be admired or bargained with — Angela Carter