Martin Luther Quotes
Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity.
Martin Luther
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My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.
Natalie Massenet
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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
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Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
Daley Thompson
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
Quintilian
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It's been an ambition of mine, before I even wanted to act, to be involved in animation.
Taron Egerton
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.
Abraham Lincoln
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When I hear that Jennifer Lopez is such a role model for Latinas, on the one hand I respect her for her business sense and I respect her for her ambition. But she's in the entertainment world. She's done it on her looks and very specifically on her anatomy. Madonna is also considered a great businesswoman and so is Yoko Ono. I feel if I had a young daughter right now, I would feel a little discouraged if that was my daughter's primary role model for success and for young people, for Latinas and Latinos.
Ana Castillo
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Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.
Oscar Wilde
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Your stereotypical L.A. Persian kids were not working at Sbarro pizza in the mall, but I was.
Maz Jobrani
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Somehow super power and hero are so synonymous that they get combined into one word, 'superhero,' whereas I'm kind of more interested in separating those two ideas out. You have characters with super powers who may or may not be heroic, because human beings aren't all heroic. I tend to be drawn to antiheros.
Doug Liman
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As I see it, there's mainstream comedy - and then there's me, out in the badlands.
Rik Mayall
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Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity.
Martin Luther
