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

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

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.

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

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her – for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

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.‘

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.

I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

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

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We’ve been so busy damning ourselves for years. We’ve done it all, and yet we don’t take credit for it.

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

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.

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

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.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

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

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

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.

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

I liked watching Rossi, his style, his colours and everything. He was someone I looked up to and until now he is still my only hero. He is the king of motorbikes and most people like Rossi mainly because he comes across as a pretty fun and good character. He is cool and has a good style and look.

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

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

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.

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.

There’s been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I’ve always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

I have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

I say this everywhere I go: I admire and respect Hillary. She has been a lawyer, a law professor, First Lady of Arkansas, First Lady of the United States, a U.S. Senator, Secretary of State.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

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

My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.

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.

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

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

If I go to Italy, I will certainly request to meet with Pope Francis, whom I admire very much.

Since I’m the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it’s understandable that people are saying, you know, ‚What have you done?‘

I admire people who destroy themselves.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

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.

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.