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.James Cook
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I'm a good driver.
Ian Somerhalder -
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.
Lars Peter Hansen -
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 -
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza -
I've gotten used to the point where I'm so used to being sweaty! I like to wear less makeup and be tougher!
Maggie Q -
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
Walter Savage Landor
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
Sallust -
The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.
Fernando Torres -
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
Eden Phillpotts -
My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.
Natalie Massenet -
I have an Oscar on my mantel.
Irwin Winkler -
It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.
Majandra Delfino
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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 -
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 -
I've never stopped loving cartoons. I loved cartoons as a kid. I can still look at them and enjoy them.
Ed Asner -
My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.
Ilie Nastase -
It's been an ambition of mine, before I even wanted to act, to be involved in animation.
Taron Egerton
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Yes, I love the glamour industry. I love the work that I've done so far. But it's not as if I have this biting ambition to be at the top.
Malaika Arora Khan -
I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.
Emmanuelle Beart -
Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.
John Ruskin -
It's time to end the hypocrisy of those who accumulate wealth through the global economy, and then siphon funds to those who teach children to tear it down.
Barack Obama -
They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
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.
James Cook