When I asked him which game developers he admired, he named only one, Will Wright.
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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And although he affected brusqueness he was known as the Crocodile: somnolent until provoked he admired Kennan and respected his intellect.
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.
When the demanding founder of modern Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, was asked recently which leaders he admired, Mr. Lee cited Churchill, Deng and de Gaulle.
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.
Myths grew around him, including that he admired Hitler, which he was quoted as saying in a magazine interview that he never denied nor confirmed.
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.
Worse, he knew this house: It was on the KPD watch list, the residence of Elizabeth Shaler, New York's young attorney general, a woman whose politics and guts he admired.
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.
To CNN, he said he admired the "commitment to cover all sides of the story, just in case one of them happens to be accurate, " while he commended the "nice change of pace" at MSNBC.
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