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  • On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.
  • Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
  • A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.
  • Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
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  • Anita Brookner A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • William Arthur Ward Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • George F. Will Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • George F. Will Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
    A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • André Gide Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Hilaire Belloc Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • Bertrand Russell 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.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Brooks Atkinson Nothing wholly admirable ever happens in this country except the migration of birds.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Carter Burwell On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.
    Carter Burwell
    American composer of film scores (1954 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Homer There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • William Shakespeare What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god - the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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