In a statement released Sunday, former President Jimmy Carter said he admired Reagan's communication skills.
Leafing through an album of faded photographs, Liu Anyi recalls how much he admired America in his youth.
But when it came to the musicians he admired, he was genuinely modest.
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While he admired his bosses' technical abilities, they told underlings only what to do, not why they should do it.
"David Cameron joined the Conservative Party in the 1980s because he admired much of what Mrs Thatcher was doing, " he said.
In his early thirties and frustrated by the slow pace of his career, he asked an executive he admired for some advice.
At home on his parents' walnut and prune ranch in San Martin, California, he admired the stagecoach scene engraved on the cylinder.
Exploring other options, he realized that two investing experts he admired, Benjamin Graham and David Dodd, were teaching at Columbia's graduate business school.
He just had a picture of Einstein, whom he admired greatly, and he had a Tiffany lamp and a chair and a bed.
Epstein later recalled that it was purchased "second-hand, " and he admired the drill so much that it was not altered in any way.
He actually told me how much he admired me and the job I was doing at Notts County which was just great coming from him.
Asked which politicians he admired, Mr. Buiter said there weren't any.
Nevertheless, he said he admired the French, even while fighting them.
Bentley was informed of the decision by coach Steve McClaren ahead of the squad announcement, and the player said he admired the way McClaren had handled the situation.
He admired the United States, although he feared its potential power.
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He admired those who carried on their everyday lives despite infirmities.
He admired the colors I tested on the walls, and I admired how he lined up the heating guy, electrician and painters all in the same week.
Jones says that, when he worked with Young in the '90s, he admired Young's big guitar sound, and that's what he tried to replicate on Potato Hole.
Valdespin was hit by a pitch with the Pirates up big, one night after he admired a home run for a bit longer than the Pirates would have preferred.
He'd had no issue with the Pirates plunking Jordany Valdespin during last weekend's series after he admired a home run too long, and he said Valdespin had been aware he'd be targeted.
He barely mentions a New Yorker series written towards the end of his life: long profiles of vivid characters he admired, such as Mel Brooks, Johnny Carson, Ralph Richardson and Tom Stoppard.
He babbled about how he admired the federal agents known as AFIs (the Federal Investigation Agency was a squad created to fight corruption and organized crime), pretending that he thought the narcos were AFIs.
The self-taught artist, who's in his early 60s, has been using them to mock authority since he was a young boy -- first imitating cartoons he admired and then creating satire of his own.
He never asked for advice about the name changes, although he mentioned that he admired William Jefferson Clinton because the American president, like Willy, had come from a poor part of a big country.
Wenger had stressed that he admired the English game's physicality but added that it was "important that the referees sit down together with the managers so that we can get clear what is allowed and what isn't".
So full of life, he was a man both confident in himself and curious about others, alive to the world around him with a character that is captured in the words of a Mathew Arnold poem that he admired.
Mr. Salerno says he admired the director's passion and also thought he might want a change of pace: "He'd just done a movie about a bunch of guys in suits sitting in a room talking" ("Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps").
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Still, at 25 he held the chair of Greek at Sydney University, and so became the youngest professor in what was then the British empire (and rather cross that Friedrich Nietzsche, whose philosophic works he admired, had become a professor at an even earlier age).
It is true that Jorge salted the leadership with other self-made Cuban success stories, in part because he admired their achievements and in part because he wanted their contributions. (Is this really any different from Jewish, or Greek, or Turkish American organizations?) But it is also true that he never forgot the poor Cubans who sought to escape as he once did.
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