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“I am doing what I want to do - painting pictures people want and understand. I have no burning ambition to create the kind of 'art' which the confused critics praise for its 'plastic significance,' 'fluid lines,' and 'inner awareness,' or 'must be understood on three levels.”

People Want Kind Art Three Lines Levels Awareness Painting Ambition Understood Praise Critics Burning Confused Significance Plastic Fluid Modernism Painting A Picture

Author:Arnold Friberg

“There be three sorts of government--monarchical, aristocratical, democratical; and they are apt to fall three several ways into ruin--the first, by tyranny; the second, by ambition; the last, by tumults. A commonwealth grounded upon any one of these is not of long continuance; but, wisely mingled, each guards the other and makes that government exact.”

Way Firsts Long Government Lasts Fall Three Ambition Tyranny Ruins Grounded Commonwealth Tumult Continuance

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least the perfection of "respectability" in good earnest. On the other hand, accuse an honorable man, too petinaciously, of being a villain, and you fill him with a perverse ambition to show you that you are not altogether in the wrong.”

Men Shows Hands Three Four Ambition Perfection Revenge Villain Honorable Persecution Earnest Scoundrels Respectability Honorable Man Probity

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“I taught school in the early days of my manhood and I think I know something about mothers. There is a thread of aspiration that runs strong in them. It is the fiber that has formed the most unselfish creatures who inhabit this earth. They want three things only; for their children to be fed, to be healthy, and to make the most of themselves.”

Thinking Knows Want Children Running School Earth Mother Three Strong Women Taught Healthy Creatures Ambition Aspiration Feds Thread Manhood Three Things Fiber Unselfish

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Music was my ultimate ambition but I liked all of it. I wanted to discipline myself in dance and acting too and I'd done all three since I was 9-years-old. I could sing, but I didn't become a great singer.”

Years Done Wanted Three Acting Discipline Ambition Ultimate Singers

Author:Amy Winehouse

“I started, with three friends, this website called Crowdrise that's sort of the Facebook for personal philanthropy, a place where anybody can have a permanent microsite of their own to stage creative fundraising projects for the charities and causes that they care about. And we did it with serious intent but without any ambition.”

Care Three Causes Creative Stage Serious Ambition Projects Charity Permanent Philanthropy Website Fundraising Three Friends

Author:Edward Norton

“I'm trying to influence the next generation or two generations or three generations behind me. That's a big ambition of mine.”

Trying Two Bigs Three Next Behinds Generations Influence Mines Ambition Next Generation Three Generations

Author:James Frey

“The start of a film is like a gateway, a formal entrance-point. The first three minutes of a film make great demands on an audience's patience and credulity. A great deal has to be learnt very rapidly about place and attitude, character and intent and ambition.”

Firsts Character Film Three Deals Attitude Audience Minutes Demand Ambition Formal Entrances Credulity Gateways

Author:Peter Greenaway

“My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.”

Two Play Three Week Ambition Gigs My Ambition

Author:Van Morrison

“If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.”

Ifs World Should Persons Two Hands Spiritual Fall Three Business Ambition Aim Ripe Great Power Peaches Spiritual Leadership

Book:Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms

Source: Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms

“My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness - if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor - but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy the fibers of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.”

“Moreover, they [the Central Asian Republics] are of importance from the standpoint of security and historical ambitions to at least three of their most immediate and more powerful neighbors, namely Russia, Turkey and Iran, with China also signaling an increasing political interest in the region. But the Eurasian Balkans are infinitely more important as a potential economic prize: an enormous concentration of natural gas and oil reserves is located in the region, in addition to important minerals, including gold.”