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Admired Quotes
On the figures worth looking up to.
What's admired here ranges widely — a cricketer, a run of classic-era actors, songwriters who shaped a musical ear. One line draws a clean line between admiration and fear as the real test of leadership. Related picks live under Age.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always admired Gene Hackman, Jack Lemmon, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck. I'm showing my age here.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Saddam Hussein admired, studied, and copied Stalin, the paragon of modern dictators.
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
My greatest desire was to be in a sandbox with Kevin Kline or Kenneth Branagh - to be with the people I admired - and I have.
- Barbara
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors.
- Her
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- Nov 07, 2020
I adored my mother. I absolutely adored her and admired her.
- Nov 07, 2020
I admired Stephen Fleming.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.
- Nov 07, 2020