It’s exciting to step into the shoes of someone you have known and admired.
Maybe Larry Kings cannot thrive or even survive in a world where the norms for discourse are rage, vehemence and character assassination. King wanted to be liked, not feared; admired, not loathed.
Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.
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.
As for Kate Bosworth, I’ve always admired her. I watched her in a movie called ‘Girl in the Park,’ which has never been released – not even on DVD. I had a copy, and it was bravura acting I had not seen from her.
In my position, I’ve always admired Claude Makelele. I grew up watching him play. I was able to play against him in the final stages of his career. I have always liked his way of playing football, and given my position and style, he’s been a mirror to compare myself against.
I was a Barcelona fan. My favorite player was Ronaldinho. But I watched a lot of English football and admired lots of English teams.
I have always admired the courage of ordinary individuals to step up and speak out against injustice and tyranny.
I have always loved and admired women.
There’s a mixture of pride and self-loathing in Jewish female comedians that I’ve always admired and wanted to bring into Jinkx.
I’d love the opportunity to continue to work in the U.S. with people I have always admired and I also want keep telling stories from where I’m from.
I like dialogue that is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write one of those 1940s film scripts where every line is written with a sharpness and economy that is frankly artificial.
I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.
Andre Agassi is one of the world’s most popular and admired figures. He has lived an extraordinary life, and he has a great story to tell.
I grew up reading – and loving – stories by Andre Norton. I admired and idolised her from afar. Her stories helped shape my own internal world.
Before I really even understood what the term meant, I wanted to be wealthy. I wanted to be able to drive the beautiful old Rolls-Royces my father admired when I was a child.
I’ve always felt that, although Truffaut was greatly revered and admired, at the same time, in terms of film and how much he loved film, he was underestimated.
If I have to tell you what was and is my mission, I think UBS can be the Apple or IBM of the banking industry: companies that went from being admired to severe difficulties and to being back stronger than before.
During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.
Jack Welch is someone who I have always admired. In India, Narayana Murthy is someone who I have great respect for.
I don’t feel when I’m writing that I’m drawing from any other writer, but of course I must be. The writers I’ve admired have been not so very different from myself: Evelyn Waugh, for example, that kind of crystalline prose. And I’ve always admired W. Somerset Maugham more than any other writer.
One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.
The actors I admired were Bogart, Cagney, Cooper, Tracy. Great personalities. Real stars.
I think Jane Fonda is to be admired for her stands.
I had admired the way the producers of the ‘Harry Potter’ franchise had found David Yates, who ended up doing their four final movies, and he’d come from television.
Growing up in Memphis, I have always admired St. Jude’s for the magnificent work they do.
The arts and crafts architecture of Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City is now hugely admired. Remember much of it was stimulated through open competition.
There’s different types of strikers: Harry Kane is a wonderful finisher, Jamie Vardy has great pace and has come onto the scene exceptionally well and is playing consistently, and Wayne Rooney is a player I have admired during all of his career.
I think what I most admired about my father was his extraordinary courage. He had such energy to pursue whatever he wanted, and he really didn’t care what others thought.
My number-one hero in terms of interdisciplinary art is Laurie Anderson, but I’ve always admired anyone who can think way beyond any one medium.
Yes, I have done a few things like always, worked immensely hard, always respected people, admired good work, and never let success blow my top off; probably this has worked in my favour.
Mum says that, since I was a tiny baby, I’ve had the most strong-willed and stubborn personality known to man. Although that was a real pain for her, she admired my resolve.
I’ve always admired gardens. My father was a great nature lover and would always take me for walks. We lived not too far away from huge rhododendron estates and azalea estates, and when they’re in bloom in England, they’re just riotous.
I always admired Dana White as a great businessman that always believed in MMA and helped our sport to grow around the world.
The answer to old age is to keep one’s mind busy and to go on with one’s life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
Bill Clinton’s legacy on job creation should be assailed by none and admired by every presidential candidate who hopes to do the same.
I admire people who overcome obstacles or who have to commit – I’ve always really admired commitment, whether it be a commitment to living or a commitment to love. People who commit to a moment. People who are not somewhere else, but in the room with you.
I don’t know if my perspective is different because my dad played but I’ve always admired footballers: second division players, second division B players.
The Champions League was something very distant for us. I grew up in a very small town with 50,000 inhabitants, and it was a way of being able to watch my idols or people I admired play football on television.
I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.
I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.
The successful men I admired all built their bodies.
If I had a choice, I’d rather be admired less and have my husband tormented less. I’d prefer that people concentrate on a fair assessment of him and his Presidency.
I’ve always been intrigued by the Senate, and admired many of the people who have served there.
There were a lot of people I really admired and that I liked watching, but not that I tried to compare myself or emulate or nothing like that.
I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.
Southern women always know how to make you feel welcome, loved and admired, even when we’re talkin’ smack!
My grandmother had great influence on me. She was secretary of state in the 1970’s, and that’s when I was born. She showed me the importance of public service, and she was admired by people regardless of their political party.
I’d always admired the intellectuals who had made the transition into politics – Mario Vargas Llosa in Peru, Vaclav Havel in the Czech Republic, Carlos Fuentes in Mexico – but I knew that many of them had failed, and in any event, I wasn’t exactly in their league.
My father had two personas: first, literary, and second, the way he lived. I’ve been brought up with all of this, but many other people have liked and admired his lifestyle.
The toppling of idols – even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols – is always the road to liberation.
I both admired my father and his writing, and I saw how much he valued it.
For me, the defender I respect the most is Giorgio Chiellini. He’s one of the best defenders in the world. I really like the way he plays football on the pitch, the way he defends. He lives for the game. He transmits a sense of tranquillity to his team-mates. I have always admired his way to play.
I was pretty nervous when I met Robert DeNiro. I kind of felt like a kid in a candy store for the first time. I couldn’t wipe the grin off of my face. But Bobby DeNiro was really, really sweet and made me feel very comfortable. He’s very low-key and just a superstar professional, and totally someone to be admired.
In my office, I have a very beautiful marble bust of Seneca. I always have my eye on him when I’m taking phone calls. He’s one of the many philosophers I’ve always read and admired.
As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings and notebooks.
I started a publishing company just so I could get the phone numbers of everyone that I’d ever admired.
Not disown my past or upbringing, but I’d admired American actors, really American movie star – particularly the rebel heroes of the ’50s.
I love creating hideaways. My idea is to go to the most beautiful, unspoilt places, buy the land, and make sure it is never damaged. I’ve always admired John D. Rockefeller, who bought up tracts of land to ensure they were left wild in perpetuity.
