People You Admire

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George W. Bush
Confucius
Albert Schweitzer (Alsatian-French minister who served as a doctor in Africa from 1913 until his death in 1965)
Swami Vivekanda (Hindu monk who lived from 1863-1902 and considered one of the wisest monks of his day)
Pope John Paul II
St. Patrick
Jack Kerouac (50s-60s writer, wrote "On the Road")
Helen Keller
Anne Frank
Allen Ginsberg (poet who was a friend of Kerouac's and wrote around the same time)
Liza Minelli
Martin Luther King
Gandhi
The British Royal Family
Shakespeare
St. Therese de Lisieux
The children who witnessed "Our Lady of Fatima" in Portugal in 1917
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
Andy Warhol
Monet
Salvadore Dali
Joan Miro
Oskar Schindler
Golda Meir
Dale Evans


This is in abosulutely no particular order and I could go on and on.

Whom do you admire (make your own list, please)?

Thomas F. Wilson - The actor who played all the tannen characters in the back to the future movies. It takes a heck of alot of talent to be able to play all the different characters he did, and as well as he did.

Director Sidney Lumet - Network, Serpico, et al. And 12 Angry Men, the best courtroom drama ever made.

Hilary, I must take strong exception to inclusion on your list of V. I. Lenin. This person was the communist directly responsible for installing the atrocious political system in Russia, that ultimately led to death of millions, and poverty and humiliation of more than a billion people. While Stalin is directly responsible for worst atrocities of communism, it was Lenin who prevented the democracy to take roots in Russia, and in effect paved way for the rule of murderers and their crimes against humanity. I think that it is very inappropriate to romanticize this individual.

My most admired people are:

Abraham Lincoln
John.F.Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
Martin Luther King
Winston Churchill
Harry Truman
Franklin Roosevelt
Ronald Reagan (The only conservative politician I could stand)
Bill Clinton
Albert Einstein
Thomas Edison
Henry Ford
James Stewart
Steve McQueen
Robert Aldrich (Film Director)
Neil Armstrong

I have left wing opinions and views and some people may call me a liberal, but I don't care! I chose Reagan because I liked the way he stood up to the Soviet Union and helped end the Cold War, even though I disagreed with him on many other issues.

People I admire-

Rosa parks- civil rights campaigner
Jayne Mansfield- film actress
Hans Holbein- painter
Margeurite Patten- home economics specialist
Billie Holliday- jazz singer
Elizabeth Zimmerman- craftswoman

I admire :

Albert Einstein
Ghandi
John F. Kennedy
Abraham Lincoln
Martin Luther King
Neil Amstrong
Richard Phillips Feynman (for his work)

why o why george bush and the royal family

Right now I'm into... Stephen King, master of the macabre

I admire myself and all vulcans, androids, romulans, members of the borg collective, holograms, pharohs, dinosaurs, computors and shape shifters.

I do not admire cardassians, most humans, bajorans and Russian soviet leaders.

Political:
Martin Luter King: anti - racial seperation
Rosa Parks: " "
Abraham Lincoln: peace activist
JFK: " "

Music - wise (I'm a big music person):
Terri Clark - Not afraid to express the truth through songs
Melissa Etheridge - " "
Natalie Maines (of the Dixie Chicks) - I think we could all guess for that one
Martina McBride - Activist (through music and real life) against violence
Carolyn Dawn Johnson - " "
Elton John - " "

Sports:
George Morris - (horseback rider): amazing guy!

These are the people that I admire:

John Lennon
Paul McCartney
Mike Myers
Ray Davies of The Kinks
Burt Bacharach
Donovin Bailey
Billie Jean King
Donna Williams
Temple Gradin

Hmm..
Patrick White
Graham Greene
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Will Self
Irvine Welsh
William Burroughs
Jack Kerouac
Alan Ginsberg
Jean Paul Satre
Camus
Simone de Beauvoir
Screaming J Hawkins
P.J. Harvey
Tom Waites
Beethoven
Paul Kelly (the singer not the footballer!)
Billy Brag
Phillipe Starke
Andy Warhol
Salvador Dali
Egon Scheele
Joy Hester
Frida Kahlo
Vincent van Gogh
Picasso
Andre Breton
Arthur Boyd
Brett Whitely

(Alphabetically)

Susan B. Anthony
Michelle Dawson
Frederick Douglass
Stephanie Mobley
Cal Montgomery
Irit Shimrat
Laura Tisoncik
Rae Unzicker
Vanesa Vallenas

the BOFH is my idol

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