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“One way of understanding a graphic novel is that it's an ambitious comic and one way or another my comics have had ambitions. I have no problem with escapism. When I get my depressions all I want to do is escape reality.”

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Author:Art Spiegelman

“We've introduced the New Apollo Energy Act, which is, I think, safe to say the most comprehensive and aggressive bill that has been introduced in Congress because it does have the scale, scope, and ambition of the original Apollo Project, and it attacks the problem in every way you can imagine. There's no silver bullet here, but there are lots of opportunities.”

Thinking Way Doe Has Beens Problem Opportunity Energy Imagine Safe Ambition Projects Originals Bills Congress Scales Silver Aggressive Bullets Scope Apollo Comprehensive Silver Bullets

Author:Jay Inslee

“A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available.”

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Author:Alain de Botton

“In terms of putting the cast together, no problems. You know, the only problem always is just price-point. Our ambitions as we get older, all of us, is to try and do more.”

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Author:Eric Fellner

“Perhaps one of the main antidotes to depression, lack of self-esteem, loneliness and so forth is the recognition that we really do have Buddha nature. All the other problems like anger, jealousy, ambitions, are merely habitual patterns that we've learned, but aren't inherent to who we are.”

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Author:Tenzin Palmo

“Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.”

Problem Ambition No Problem

Author:Camille Paglia

“As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and simulation, ambition and acquiescence, I shuttle between worrying whether I matter at all and whether anything else matters but me.”

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Book:Moab is My Washpot

Source: Moab is My Washpot

“The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.”

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Book:Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life

Source: Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life

“When you visit countries that don't nurture these kinds of ambitions, you can feel th absence of hope...people are reduced to worrying only about that day's shelter or the next day's meal. It's a shame, even a tragedy, how many people do not get to think about the future. Technology coupled with wise leadership not only solves these problems but enables dreams of tomorow.”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with the time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.”

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Book:Controversial Essays

Source: Controversial Essays

“When I went back home, I was constantly being reminded, I'm an African woman, and so there are certain things I shouldn't do, certain ambitions that I should not entertain. That was a problem for me because I had never thought of myself as an African woman, never thought of myself as a woman to begin with. For me the limit was my capacity, my capability.”

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Author:Wangari Maathai