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You can admire people for sure, and they're worth admiring, but you need to find that special thing about yourself. It takes working hard, getting the technique, and learning to sing and all that stuff, but the master class is about bringing yourself to the role.
Susan Egan
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You can love a woman. To admire her is hard. You are not dealing with something important.
Henri Michaux
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Knowing what you admire in others is a wonderful mirror into your deepest, as yet unborn, self.
Gretchen Rubin
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All of us admire people we don't like and like people we don't admire.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.
Mary Russell Mitford
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There's nothing makes you admire people like seeing yourself in them.
Eleanor Hibbert
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Carl Sandburg
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We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel at.'
B. F. Skinner
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It's great to admire other people's fashion choices, but I don't think you should idolise anyone.
Cat Deeley
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You always admire what you really don't understand.
Blaise Pascal
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Be the mirror in which people admire their true potential.
Ron Kaufman
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
F. H. Bradley
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A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.
Tove Jansson
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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Sometimes when you're treated unfairly it makes you stronger and more determined. I admire that kind of strength. People who have it take a stand and put their blood and soul into what they believe.
Michael Jackson
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It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
James Russell Lowell
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Transform jealousy to admiration, and what you admire will become part of your life.
Yoko Ono
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It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.
Frank Herbert
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The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Developing a relationship with someone you admire, who can encourage you to reach your full potential, is something that everyone can benefit from.
Mandy Moore
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Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.
George Bernard Shaw
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We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.
C S Lewis
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Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.
Kabir
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Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.
John Milton
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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
Samuel Johnson
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Everybody admires a go-getter if he is tactful.
Earl Tupper
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Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.
Allegra Huston
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Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.
Vincent Van Gogh
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What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.
Blaise Pascal
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Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain.
Dave Pelzer
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The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.
Sydney J. Harris
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Nobody admires anyone else without qualification. If they do they're after an image, not a person.
Scott Lynch
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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We tend to become like those whom we admire.
Thomas S. Monson
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He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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People don't admire you for what you hate, they admire you for what you do about it, and your slacks.
Greg Behrendt
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As long as one can admire and love, then one is young forever.
Pablo Casals
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Nature's beauty we all admire in every shape and form, but how much more we admire her when the weather's nice and warm.
Janet Hargreaves
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A hero is someone we can admire without apology.
Kitty Kelley
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A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
Quintilian
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We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.
William Feather
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All leaders are influenced by those they admire. Reading about them and studying their traits inevitably allows an inspiring leader to develop his own leadership traits.
Rudy Giuliani
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A fool can always find a greater fool who admires him.
Nicolas Boileau
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Enjoy your work and work for whom you admire.
Warren Buffett
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
Irvin D. Yalom
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To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
Theophile Gautier