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" Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses. "

" Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one. "

" I'd say that all nations have contact with the truth, and all religions have admirable people. "

" If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance. "

Margery Allingham

" I'm stubborn, which is not necessarily admirable. "

" I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them. "

" I think it's a really admirable thing to be very sure of your own moral code and not waver from that. "

" I think it's very admirable, in a superhero movie, to be able to take a few risks. "

" It's true that none of my characters are admirable. But maybe I'm primarily a satirist, and a satirist needs to hold up what's not admirable. "

" I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower. "

Stephen Ambrose

" Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography. "

" Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. "

" People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable. "

" So many shows out there dumb-down the country. It's so admirable to be part of a show that wants people to think. "

David Krumholtz

" 'The Admirable Crichton' is probably Barrie's most famous work after 'Peter Pan', nearly a pendant to that classic. "

" The capsules of the geranium furnish admirable barometers. Fasten the beard, when fully ripe, upon a stand, and it will twist itself or untwist, according as the air is moist or dry. "

" The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples. "

Willard Van Orman Quine

" The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book. "

Vladimir Nabokov

" There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate. "

" This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble. "

Ludwig van Beethoven

" We all have a great deal of admirable qualities, and we all have some that could probably be improved upon. "

" We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable. "

Francis Collins

" What a thrill it is to have my writing recognized by an institution as admirable and vital as the National Endowment for the Arts. "

Dean Bakopoulos

" Yeltsin was admirable but flawed, noble but tainted, but in his own negligent grandeur, he undermined his own real achievements - and accelerated their ruin. "

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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