James Cook Quotes
Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.

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I'm a good driver.
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There is a big divergence between views on a variety of policy issues from fiscal stimulus to financial regulation. It's my hope and my ambition for the economics profession that as we advance our knowledge, that those discussions will narrow in their focus, and that it will help to have more prudent policy-making down the road.
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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.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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I've gotten used to the point where I'm so used to being sweaty! I like to wear less makeup and be tougher!
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.
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I have an Oscar on my mantel.
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It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've never stopped loving cartoons. I loved cartoons as a kid. I can still look at them and enjoy them.
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My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.
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It's been an ambition of mine, before I even wanted to act, to be involved in animation.
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America was born in outrageous ambition, so bold as to be improbable. The deprived, the oppressed, the powerless from all over the globe came here with little more than the desire to realize themselves.
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It's been really nice to see different counties that I might never have visited before.
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I love the energy of an independent film set. No one is there for the money. Everyone is there 'cause they really want to be there. It makes all the difference in the world. It's without ego and agenda, other than just wanting to fulfill a creative dream.
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I am very domesticated. I find I really enjoy it.
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Before we can begin to see the cross as something done FOR us, leading us to faith and worship, we have to see it as something done BY us, leading us to repentance. Only the man or woman who is prepared to own his share in the guilt of the cross may claim his share in its grace.
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Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.