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Someone like Barbra Streisand is someone I’ve always loved and looked up to.
From Los Angeles Times
“Loving your father and looking up to your father doesn’t necessarily mean you’re feeling that back,” Reiner said on “Fresh Air” in September, recalling how writing that scene made him cry.
From Los Angeles Times
She occasionally looked up to smile, but by all other appearances was reading to herself.
From Salon
"We were young men, we looked up to him and we wanted to do our best to make ourselves look good in front of him and do whatever he said."
From BBC
A meritocracy sets a standard, posits an ideal, gives the more ambitious people in a society something to look up to and to shoot for.
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