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.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

When I say ‚Crush your enemy‘, I don’t literally mean it.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

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.

As far as the general public is concerned, I always tell people that you need to look like a dance teacher like you’re looking for a pediatrician.

I’ve never seen myself as a star. I never call myself a celebrity or a superstar, whatever.

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

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.

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

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.

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.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Well, Howard Stern has been doing his impression of me for years. It doesn’t really bother me.

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

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.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

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

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

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 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.

All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race – racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic – what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.

Shakespeare – I was very influenced – still am – by Shakespeare. I couldn’t believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart.

I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one’s best physical features.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

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.

Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we’ve ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

I do not see myself as a celebrity or an icon or things like that… I have not really done anything.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can’t I just be an ordinary woman?

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

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

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.

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.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

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.

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 am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet.

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.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards – a massive star.

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

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

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

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

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.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

If you ever see The Rock working out in the gym, don’t think you can just go up and disturb his workout and expect him to take a picture. He’s there to work, so kindly just pass the silverback on by or he’ll rip your face off.

Anybody that doesn’t like Cardi B a hater!

I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

I get really restless when I haven’t worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!

I would never say I was an icon, but so many people have said I am, so I suppose I am. I mean, I can’t not be what everyone says I am. But I don’t feel like an icon.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.