Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
I hope that I have gained the reputation of being someone that would do anything. I think that that’s an admirable reputation to have if you’re an actor.
Activism is a very admirable way to create change, but it has to go hand in hand with personal contact with the people with whom we have opposing points of view; without that, there will never be any movement.
‘Divergent,’ directed by Neil Burger, displayed an admirable seriousness and some grim verve in laying out the boundaries of novelist Veronica Roth’s dystopia – six segregated but ostensibly harmonious regions defined by their inhabitants’ skills.
A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.
When I lived in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., I was rather proud that my landlord was almost the only African-American in my unofficially segregated neighbourhood (the other one was the adopted child of our admirable next-door neighbours).
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.
There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.
So many shows out there dumb-down the country. It’s so admirable to be part of a show that wants people to think.
The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.
I think it’s a really admirable thing to be very sure of your own moral code and not waver from that.
I’ve always tried to be fair to my subjects. That’s easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower.
The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.
Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
Adolescents show off. That’s another way of wanting to connect with people. It’s not an aspect of human behavior that we generally consider to be very admirable, but it is, in some way, a means of connecting with someone else and not being alone.
Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.
McDonald’s is almost 50 years old. For 47 years we had a pretty consistent track record of being able to deliver admirable sales.
‘The Admirable Crichton’ is probably Barrie’s most famous work after ‘Peter Pan’, nearly a pendant to that classic.
Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
I love princesses. And I think Cinderella is very strong. She’s a young woman thinking outside of her environment, outside of her current situation, and she is choosing to believe that all is possible for her. And I think that is so admirable.
Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.
I support children’s charities; I just don’t want them around me. It’s not very admirable, but it’s the truth.
The fact that we define ourselves by our roles can be an admirable thing – it’s how we build a life and make a living. But it’s also precarious. Roles change. Sometimes overnight.
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
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