And when Rubio was viciously and unfairly attacked by presumptuous white liberals for not being authentically Latino, I liked him even more.

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"I liked him, " said Redknapp.

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Still, I liked him most when he was back in his clothes, with his fine parting restored (he used hair oil and a steel comb), when he was great and good once more, settling me in an armchair, deftly drawing the cork from a Pinot Grigio, directing my reading.

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But I would have liked him to have taken a moment to celebrate the entrepreneurial spirit that animates his many accomplishments and licenses the power of his current activism.

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The judge is too harassed to be grand, and I liked the sight of him wearily dipping a lump of sugar into his glass of tea, and clearly thinking, Spare me these folk.

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"I would have liked to have seen him emphasize reaching out to the other side of the aisle and bringing us together, " said Sen.

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When I visited him last year he told me that he liked the idea of pioneering a relatively underexploited wine region.

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I've always liked Tab Benoit's blues playing, but after hearing him work through a couple of tunes by himself on a borrowed Telecaster, my opinion of him went way up.

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He seemed to be almost holding it across the seam but he was the quickest of the three England pace bowlers and I liked his enthusiasm, although I wouldn't make the bold statements about him that I do about Finn just yet.

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