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“I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.”

Bigs Produce Ambition Mainstream Popcorn

“You can't have a discussion about Israel and the region without including Iran and their nuclear ambitions.”

Ambition Including Israel Nuclear Discussion Regions Iran

“If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.”

People Ifs Thinking Important Whole Shapes Ambition Inspired Theme Contribution Being The Best Meaningless Conquest

Author:Rob Morrow

“One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.”

Needs Talent Ambition Vocation

Author:Jessye Norman

“You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.”

Ifs Way Want Writing Book Happens Special Ambition

Author:Michael Lewis

“With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just the other way around - it just generates that much more ambition in many people.”

People Way Wealth Attention Source Ambition Resentment

Author:Azim Premji

“I applied a lot of the same principles I used in hockey into my acting. I might have had some naive ambitions of making the NHL, but thank God, playing hockey gave me a good foundation for everything else.”

Might Used Acting Principles Ambition Foundation Hockey Thank God Naive Nhl Playing Hockey

Author:Vincent Piazza

“My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.”

Ambition Actresses My Ambition Chameleon

Author:Alexandra Roach

“I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.”

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Author:Michael J. Fox

“Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government.”

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Author:Donald Sutherland

“Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.”

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Author:Joseph Joubert

“My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing.... Writing well is difficult, but one can always write something. And then, with a lot of work, make it better. It's a question of having enough will and ambition, not of hoping to evade this mysterious hysteria people are always talking about.”

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Author:Thomas Mallon

“In the world of interactive multi-media highways we are all traveling somewhere interactively and we are all shopping for something, our dreams, our hopes, our ambitions for ourselves, for those we love - these little scenarios we play out endlessly in our mind.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.”

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Author:Johann Lamont

“We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.”

People Shows Humility Ambition Concern

Author:Johann Lamont

“My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.”

Ambition Fixed My Ambition

Author:Joshua Lederberg

“There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.”

Leader Ambition

Author:Ruth Simmons

“Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.”

Different Whole Becoming Ambition Champion

Author:Daley Thompson

“I always had ambition. I always knew I was going to go to college. I could party and do that stuff, but I always got straight A's and a 4.0 and all that.”

Stuff Party College Ambition

Author:Miles Teller

“The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.”

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Author:Barney Frank

“Steer clear of pot. It's an ambition zapper. Wait till you've made it. When you're 45 buy a bong. But for now, buy a suit.”

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Author:Greg Gutfeld

“People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they inhabit and the insecurity and exhaustion it creates, and question the sense and purpose of a society where control of a large portion of life is abdicated under contract in the labour market, and where immense creativity and potential is stifled by the need to do difficult and repetitive tasks in order to earn a wage.”

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Author:Tony Benn

“We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life.”

World May Self Dies Christ Sin Plans Ambition Died Rose Significance New Life Martyr Baptism

Author:Vance Havner

“Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.”

Motivational Purpose Ambition Lifestyle

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement; he becomes more dependent. A person that never really receives encouragement learns to move out of spite; he becomes more independent.”

Persons Moving Ambition Encouragement Independent Spite Dependent

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.”

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Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.”

Long Pay Ambition Facets Lack Of Ambition

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Women rescue men just as much as, if not more than, men rescue women.”

Ifs Men Ambition Rescue Rescue Me

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.”

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Author:David Morrissey

“I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.”

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Author:Louise Mensch

“I have no political ambitions whatsoever. My ambitions are all about what XL can become.”

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Author:Mike McGavick

“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”

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Book:Ben Franklin: America's original entrepreneur : Franklin's autobiography adapted for modern times

Source: Ben Franklin: America's original entrepreneur : Franklin's autobiography adapted for modern times

“My one remaining professional ambition is to read the shipping forecast. I live in hope.”

Ambition Forecasts Shipping

Author:Samuel West

“A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.”

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Book:Works of Fisher Ames

Source: Works of Fisher Ames

“It was the most earnest ambition I ever had....Not that I ever really wanted to be a preacher, but because it never occurred to me that a preacher could be damned. It looked like a safe job.”

Wanted Jobs Safe Ambition Preacher Earnest

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly independence of thought, that often distinguished Americans in earlier times and that is invariably the preeminent trait of great characters wherever it exists.”

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Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“The difference between a confident person and an unconfident person is simply that the confident person acts on their ambitions and desires and doesn’t let fear of failure stop them.”

Persons Desire Differences Ambition Fear Of Failure

Author:Katty Kay

“The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang.”

Men Grows Ambition Oaks Acorns

Book:Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)

“The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the ones who feed off of opposition and negative feedback and manage to continue along with a healthy ambition. It is the crazy that teaches us to use our gifts wisely and own all the attackers.”

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Author:Criss Jami

“It was always a wish for me to work in the Premier League. To work as a manager for Manchester United, the biggest club in the world, makes me very proud. I have managed in games at Old Trafford before and know what an incredible arena Old Trafford is and how passionate and knowledgeable the fans are. This club has big ambitions; I too have big ambitions. Together I'm sure we will make history.”

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Author:Louis van Gaal

“To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I had never existed.”

Ifs Ends Suffering Fighting Cry Ambition Mortality Forgetfulness

Author:Marie Bashkirtseff

“I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.”

I Can Ambition Indifferent

Author:Vagit Alekperov

“I am so attracted to ambition and drive and talent. If a man loves something and can put his heart into it, I am instantly into him. I like a strong man who can be in control and make decisions but who is sensitive and attentive. That is the perfect combination.”

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Author:Meaghan Rath

“The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.”

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Book:The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud

Source: The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud

“It's okay to have personal ambitions, but you have to take someone with you.”

Ambition Okay

Author:Roger Staubach

“I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.”

Knows World Kind Imagination Ambition Lawyer Equipment

Author:Michael Lindsay-Hogg

“In London - and forget those extra public pressures on politicians - the lovely old Sloane world of manor houses simply hasn't cut it since Big Bang in 1986, the point at which Mrs. Thatcher really started to achieve her ambition to make this country more like America - its ambition, economy, it's very tangible measures of success.”

World Country Bigs America House Forget Economy Cutting Achieve Politician Ambition Pressure London Lovely Extras Bangs Tangible Measure Of Success Mrs Thatcher

Author:Peter York

“My one ambition is to play a hero.”

Play Hero Ambition

Author:Sessue Hayakawa

“It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.”

Wise Ambition Defeat Immortality

Author:Vernon Howard

“Some documentaries are made by people who are driven more by one particular story, or have different backgrounds or ambitions, but I'm always looking for projects that let me be the best filmmaker I can be, and to be stretched and grow further.”

People Made I Can Different Stories Grows Particular Ambition Projects Let Me Driven Backgrounds Filmmaker Being The Best Documentaries Best Film Different Backgrounds

Author:Lucy Walker

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