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Re: Who do you admire?
« Reply #30 on: March 03, 2016, 02:21:29 AM »
Stephen Fry.  :M
I watched him deal with depression while he was making his documentary, The Secret Life of Manic Depression. And of course he is great on QI.

I also admire Kayleigh's dad. He is among the most personable people I have ever met.
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Re: Who do you admire?
« Reply #31 on: March 03, 2016, 02:27:39 AM »
Erin Pizzey, Christopher Hitchens, Karen Straight, Milo Yiannapolous. Audie Murphy, Simo Hayha, "Atticus Finch" and my daughter. (and plenty others)
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Re: Who do you admire?
« Reply #32 on: March 03, 2016, 04:50:45 AM »
My father (who passed away 14 years ago), my two sisters but also chaps like Stephen Fry, Ray Mears, Jamie Oliver, Rick Stein, etc..

(have to have a longer think about it)
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Re: Who do you admire?
« Reply #33 on: March 03, 2016, 12:26:50 PM »
My father (deceased twenty years ago), my mother (still raising farm animals at seventy eight), my three uncles who were war veterans, my wife who works harder than I do and still keeps going, my kids who struggle every day and still keep trying, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, Abraham Lincoln, John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, John Lennon, Khalil Gibran, PIXAR, Maya Angelou, John Irving, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash (so many  more artists, poets and philosophers - too many to name, but I have hit a few at the top) ...

Way too many seems the same as having no one to admire, but FUCKK!!  we are who we are and we are made up of those who have influenced us, now and forever.
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Re: Who do you admire?
« Reply #34 on: March 03, 2016, 04:46:05 PM »
The number one person I admire is Eleanor of Aquataine.  One BAD ASS woman.  I admire her so much I named the PR after her. 

(The PR got tired of the way we said "Eleanor" when we were exasperated with her.  So she picked the nickname Nellie when she went from homeschooling to regular school after Katarina.)
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Re: Who do you admire?
« Reply #35 on: March 05, 2016, 08:10:27 PM »
Come back and admire them here, CBC!

  I did!  And here's the smiley! :heisenberg:
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