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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I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.
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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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The average politician was crooked. That was my ambition, to be a crooked politician. I'd see them in these restaurants, and they'd all hold these conferences. I'd see politicians who were supposed to be on opposite sides of issues all together at one table.
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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.
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I see less and less.. .I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times of day most propitious for me, as long as my paint tubes and brushes are not mixed up.. ..I will paint almost blind, as Beethoven composed completely deaf.
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We live in a society which on the one hand pressurizes us into the pursuit of instant gratification, and the other hand imposes on whole sectors of the population and endless deferment of fulfillment.
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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.
