
“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”
Variant: When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.
“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”
Variant: When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.
As quoted in Photo (2005) by Graphis Inc. http://books.google.com/books?id=m9RTAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Le+Pen+adored
Context: I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen. Even when I am not in sympathy with the person, I have to be in love with him or her while I'm doing their portrait. Le Pen adored me (at least until his photo ran alongside Hitler's in Le Monde), and we got on extremely well.
“All I required to be happy was friendship and people I could admire.”
On Jean-Luc Godard in an interview with John Simon (1971).
Context: In this profession, I always admire people who are going on, who have a sort of idea and, however crazy it is, are putting it through; they are putting people and things together, and they make something. I always admire this. But I can't see his pictures. I sit for perhaps twenty-five or thirty or fifty minutes and then I have to leave, because his pictures make me so nervous. I have the feeling the whole time that he wants to tell me things, but I don't understand what it is, and sometimes I have the feeling that he's bluffing, double-crossing me.
“The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.”
From Count d'Orsay's Letter to John Forster (1850)
“I learned to go into business only with people whom I like, trust, and admire.”
“There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.”
“i find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people”