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

When I went back to my old high school, all these kids looking at me like I’m the real big homie, the same way I look at Jay Z, Nas, or Dr. Dre. You would’ve thought Michael Jackson walked through that joint off the excitement that they had.

I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it.

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

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

It’s in the best interest of the radical left types – best psychological and strategic interest – to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monroe, because she was a curvy woman. I’m drawn to things that have the same kind of silhouettes as what she wore because our bodies are similar.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

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

If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.

Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal ‚security,‘ those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists – they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

I have all the admiration in the world for somebody like Bono, who really puts himself on the line and tries actively to do something about our world situation.

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.

I don’t consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

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

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

100 percent a huge fan of Beyonce. If I see her, I will faint. I’ve met her before. I just get really nervous and quiet – I just shut up and bow down.

Christ didn’t choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers – that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.

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

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.

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 wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it’s such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it’s therapeutic.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

You have your ideology and I have mine.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order.

Bob Dylan is like an alien on this earth, and I love him! I cried when I saw him play live because I was so close to him.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

I’m a conservative, but I’m not a nut about it.

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.

I love soccer, love tennis… Roger Federer has been a favourite for a long, long time. The kind of consistency he has shown, 16 Grand Slam titles… The way he handles himself in pressure situations is admirable… He is so calm… In soccer, I’m a huge fan of Barcelona… I like watching Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and David Villa.

No one could have been nicer, classier nor better looking than Dick Clark. I’ve had a crush on him since I was a teenager.

Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.

I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I’m a philistine. I like the good life too much; I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

I think Pat Robertson is a terrific fellow.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can’t think of any living ones. This is probably because it is only in retrospect that one can see who made the important contributions.

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

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I’m in awe of her.

I’m conservative, but I’m not a nut about it.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

I just love working with Eminem. He’s just one of my favorite rappers, and his lyrics – he’s a true poet, and I enjoy that about him.

I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.