I think Pat Robertson is a terrific fellow.

Barbra Streisand has accomplished so much, and Dustin Hoffman as well. They are down to earth and approachable. I admire that.

The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

I didn’t do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

I don’t like the name, U2, actually.

Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.

I’m not in the business of ranking or debating who is what.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Facts are not interesting to me.

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one’s own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

I think being funny is not anyone’s first choice.

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.

I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president.

I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable.

Gospel music is never pessimistic, it’s never ‚oh my god, its all going down the tubes‘, like the blues often is.

I hated the Naked Chef. Fine, yes, he did good things for school food or whatever, but, you know, I don’t want my chefs to be cute and adorable.

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting ‚All the Gods are bastards.‘

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.

I think that, ah, I’m a very goofy sort of person in many ways.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

I’m an all-or-nothing kind of guy, I guess.

Some people are jerks, and some people aren’t.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I’ve never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

I’ve come to admire our military kids more than you all will know, because you guys are heroes. And the only way your parents are able to serve is because you guys hold it down, and you do it with maturity beyond your years.

Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left.

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy.

When ‚Paul’s Boutique‘ came out, I was one of the fans that didn’t get it.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

What people see on court is another side of me; it’s not me.

I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

David Beckham has never impressed me.