There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm too happy being myself.

I never had a backup plan. I've only been good at one thing. I admire people who are jacks-of-all-trades. That's not me.

I don't think that I've had a career like anyone else's, but there are hosts and hosts of actors whose careers I admire.

When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.

I so admire the discipline, the work ethic, and the sacrifices fighters make to master all aspects of mixed martial arts.

Fans come up to me to talk, shake hands, hug and click photos; I usually oblige because I can see how much they admire me.

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.

I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she is still doing the same thing.

I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities.

I always admire people who do commercials because they have to put together a beginning, a middle, and an end in 30 seconds.

I really admire Vivienne Westwood because she always done her own thing. She is eccentric but really great at the same time.

I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster.

What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.

Most of the people I admire as actors didn't make it until their mid-30s: the Mark Ruffalos, the John Hawkeses of the world.

I'm someone who admires artists like Madonna and David Bowie, who really change their sound drastically between each record.

I admire the actors that truly can impersonate someone - become someone, inhabit someone. It's amazing when you see it done.

You can be totally involved, you could admire just the shape of or you could be totally emotionally mushed up into the dance.

The one who wins all the time is great and powerful, but the one who had been trampled on and fallen is who I admire the most

The companies we admire are like the people we admire: resilient, authentic, personable, collaborative, ambitious, and humble.

Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.

When someone really respects and admires us as musicians to the extent that they want to work with us, it's really flattering.

Taylor Swift - I can't say enough good things about her. I admire her so much as a person and as a role model for young women.

I decided not to pursue coaching. Even though the people in coaching are some of my best friends and people I admire the most.

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

He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.

The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.

When I think of a lot of the players I admire, they could always play their parts without hiding behind distortion and sustain.

My friendship with The Doobie Brothers never really changed. We're all still good friends, and I really admire those guys a lot.

Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.

We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.

Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.

Ultimately what I try to do is work on stories I love with people I admire, and sometimes they get made and sometimes they don't.

I joined the Twitterverse in the second season of 'Dollhouse.' Friends that I admire were already in that space, like Kevin Smith.

There are a number of contemporary playwrights whom I admire enormously, but that's not at all the same thing as being influenced.

I admire Brad Pitt, honestly, just because of how he started and the obstacles he had to overcome to have the career that he's had.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.

I have a great deal of respect for other clubs and admire the good football they play, but ultimately, Real Madrid are Real Madrid.

I couldn't recommend more that people put themselves in a situation where they can see a lot of work that they admire, and for free.

I really admire David Guetta; he's an unbelievable DJ and I love his style, his music and everything like that. So I look up to him.

I don't want to throw mud at anyone - I really admire Gandhi as a brilliant strategist - but Gandhi was pretty manipulative, you know.

The person who I admire most in business is Warren Buffett. He is a long-term investor and has brilliant ideas, and he sticks to them.

I've never modeled myself on anybody, but there are a lot of people whose work I really admire and attitudes I certainly subscribe to.

Chief Justice Roberts is somebody I work with, somebody I admire, Justice Alito someone I knew when he was U.S. attorney, also admire.

I admire people like Kristen Wiig, who is hilarious but also does a lot of really cool films. I would love to have a career like hers.

You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to read.

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.

While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.

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