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The need we have for information is great, and we get it from many admirable sources. The need we have for understanding and acceptance is much greater. The arts are uniquely able to help us meet the greater needs.

~Agnes Gund

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Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Admirable Every Face Great Great Work Human Human Face Makes More Richer Secret Whole Work

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Of course, you wouldn't want to re-create the era of aristocracy; it was a totally unfair era. The finer aspects of it were admirable, and so there's nostalgia for that: the behavior, the values, the cultural sensitivities.

~Amor Towles

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Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

~Andre Gide

Topics: Admirable Authors Aware Become Differences Disagreement Every Generation Great Make Our Respect Them Through

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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

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I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

~Anna Paquin

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

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Admirable Always Chefs Fact Find Like Melbourne Promote Really Seems Support Them Ways

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I spent my junior year in Switzerland. On the way back home, I spent some time in England, and I remember going to Hyde Park Corner. And there was a Roman Catholic priest in his collar, standing on a soapbox, preaching the Catholic faith and being heckled by a group. And I thought, 'My goodness.' I thought that was admirable.

~Antonin Scalia

Topics: Admirable Back Being Catholic Collar Corner England Faith Going Goodness Group His Home Junior Junior Year Park Preaching Priest Remember Roman Roman Catholic Some Spent Standing Switzerland Thought Time Way Year I Remember

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I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.

~Ben Kingsley

Topics: Admirable Falling Falling In Love Found Himself Idiot Just Love Loved Loved Playing Making Man Playing Process Unafraid Who

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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

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