Emil Cioran Quotes
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I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.
Kate Christensen -
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
Patricia Neal -
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
Xavier Becerra -
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Our parents were really, really grounded people but also really ambitious people, meaning they saw our ambition and were willing to help us chase it.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza
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He does all research now, but he put me on some medication, Zoloft, and, I tell you what, a lot of people have had pros and cons about it, but it was my wonder drug.
Tanya Tucker -
So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.
Katey Sagal -
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
Walter Savage Landor -
Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
Ville Valo HIM -
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
Walter Savage Landor -
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
Eden Phillpotts
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Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.
Vera Farmiga -
My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.
Natalie Massenet -
It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.
Majandra Delfino -
Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.
J. G. Ballard -
Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump bin of aborted ambition.
Iain Sinclair -
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
Daley Thompson -
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Barack Obama -
I didn't have that intense ambition to be a musician or an actress. I just enjoyed it. And by enjoying it, because I loved it, it enabled me to get better at what I was doing, because there was a love behind it.
Lauryn Hill Fugees -
You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.
Doris Lessing -
I'm very dogged when I believe in something. I'm also dark and twisty.
Betsy Beers -
Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
Emil Cioran