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I'm a great admirer of cartoons, because I can't do cartoons. -- Bruce McCall
As a part owner, I'm going to be not only an admirer... but a nervous wreck. -- Roger Staubach
I'm such an admirer, I am an admirer of villains, especially working with so many great ones. -- Tom Felton
I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring. -- Catherine Deneuve
You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language. -- Fisher Ames
I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the income tax or doubling it, I would vote yes on first blush. -- Jerry Falwell
The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique. -- Minna Antrim
I admired Eugene McCarthy's courage and although I left his Senate staff after four years to accept a job as the researcher on the editorial page of the 'Washington Post,' I remained an admirer. -- Kitty Kelley
I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better. -- Michael Caine
When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same. -- Boris Becker
I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue of poverty among the elderly. FDR believed in the greatness and generosity of Americans - but he was also a cold-blooded politician. -- Jon Meacham
I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral Scratch' by the Buzzcocks, or 'Hippy Hippy Shake' by the Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I can put up with Chopin or shakuhachi flute in the background. -- Billy Childish
Haters are just confused admirers. -- Justin Bieber
Great talents have some admirers, but few friends. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers. -- Bill Vaughan
One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers. -- Willa Cather
It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit. -- Seneca the Younger
It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others. -- Plutarch
I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era. -- Barbara Taylor Bradford
Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. -- John Wooden
A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms not person than graces of mind, more admirers than friends, mole fools than wise men for attendants. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome. -- Jean Giraudoux
I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre. -- Nicolas Cage
My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War. -- Clint Eastwood
I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life - all mystery and magic. -- Harry Houdini
I've been a longtime admirer of Condoleezza Rice, because I like her articulateness and style - her toughness and rigor. -- Camille Paglia
I'm a big admirer of Walter Willett's work. I think he's done some really important research. He and I agree on most things. -- Dean Ornish
I'm a great admirer of 'The Simpsons.' It's very surprising because it's backed by a right-wing television company in the U.S., and quite often it's poking fun at the people who would be its audience. -- Peter Higgs
It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think? -- Kate Bush
I was named after the great emperor Cyrus as my father, Farokh Broacha, was a great admirer of the Persian emperor. Continuing the tradition, I have named my son after Mikhail Gorbachev, someone whom I admire. He gave his people freedom. -- Cyrus Broacha
One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran. -- Salman Rushdie
I am a great admirer of Sen. Frist, who is a nationally known heart surgeon and well known in Nashville as a great family man who has dedicated his life to helping others and, in that regard, he has followed in his father's footsteps. -- John Jay Hooker
My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to works of art, being an admirer of Matisse and Giaometti, whom I collected as a young man because of her. -- Jacob Rothschild
I'm a great admirer of secularism. At its best, I think it's one of the best things that we have. I don't believe in insinuating religion into conversation. I don't believe in excluding it from conversation. I enjoy the fact that people's innermost thoughts are their own. -- Marilynne Robinson
I am a fan of the Coen brothers. I'm not a fanatic. I'm a big admirer. They create unique worlds, and there is a real atmosphere to their films. Not everyone can get that. That's a massive part of their appeal: you can recognise them. Like all the great directors or artists, you know it when you see it. -- Martin Freeman
I was sort of traumatized by girls in the third grade. Because there was a girl in my third grade class I had a crush on. I bought her a box of Valentine's Day chocolate. And I put it in her cubby with a note that said something like, 'I am deeply in love with you, Your Secret Admirer.' And I didn't sign my name. -- Steve Carell
I was a great admirer of George Lucas' work. -- Richard Marquand
The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband. -- Samuel Richardson
The sun, rising and setting in splendid colors, never grows tired of its admirer -- Richelle E. Goodrich
I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general. -- Richard Flanagan
I'm very much an admirer of people who are reaching for things and trying to survive. -- Nicole Kidman
I am a very big admirer of Hillary 's and I am an admirer of Obama as well. -- Harriet Harman
I am a big admirer of Paul Scholes, he is one of the best players of his generation. -- Arjen Robben
I have, for a very long time, been a huge admirer of Marilynne Robinson, whose work I just love. -- Phil Klay
Joe Wright is incredible and I'm a huge admirer of his work in general, but specifically his aesthetics and poeticism. -- Bryce Dallas Howard
The decorator of Las Colimas must have been a great admirer of both early Aztec and late Taco Bell architectural styles. -- Ilona Andrews
I am a great admirer of Henry Jeffreys and have been eagerly awaiting his booze and empire book for many years! -- Elif Batuman
Now I am as big of an [ Georgia] O'Keeffe admirer as Ivy [Wilkes] is, but that came through writing the book. -- Liza Campbell
I'm a huge admirer of Pope Francis and everything he stands for. I think he's an incredibly connected spiritual and authentic being. -- Joseph Fiennes
I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet... -- Leni Riefenstahl
I'm a big music fan, an admirer. But I mean by no means am I about to release an album or anything. -- Emma Stone
I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know. -- Mel Brooks
The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing. -- Angus Wilson
I cast a glance in my new admirer's direction. "You may call me Your Highness," I said. "Or Empress Beauty." He chuckled. I wasn't kidding. -- Gena Showalter
I'm a great admirer, fan and consumer of television. I love serial drama. I have been a major fan of HBO's series for many years. -- Todd Haynes
I've been an admirer of Helen Mirren for a long time. As I get older, I find myself admiring older women who have poise and elegance. -- Thomas Haden Church
Il y a dans les hommes plus de choses a' admirer que de choses a' me priser. There are more things to admire in people than to despise. -- Albert Camus
A friend of ours, who is an admirer of Isaac Walton, was struck, just as we were, with the likeness of the old angler's face to a fish. -- Leigh Hunt
And while I was not an admirer of people in the specific, I liked them in the abstract. It is only the execution of the idea that disappoints. -- Elizabeth McCracken
I like entertainment. I'm an innate admirer of good entertainment. I'll listen to MTV, I'll listen to Mozart, I'll listen to anything that has a good element in it. -- Jack Kirby
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something I don't know where I would be without it -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him. -- Vikram Seth
I am a big admirer of Sachin and his personality. He is a source of inspiration for the country and just looking at his photographs gives a lot of positive vibes. -- A. R. Rahman
The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - reading between the lines - has bcome the secret friend of their author. -- Katherine Mansfield
It's incredible to be working with Mr Armani and his team at Emporio Armani. I feel an affinity to the brand ethos and have been a long time admirer of their designs. -- Calvin Harris
The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool. [Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.] -- Jean de la Bruyere
It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding. -- Kate Bush
In many ways, I'm a big admirer still of Julian Assange. He had balls to do what he did and his motivations in terms of holding the powerful to account are tremendously inspiring to me. -- Alex Gibney

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