Peter Morgan Quotes
Ambition interests me because it's such a surefire indicator of damage.
Peter Morgan
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I'm very comfortable being naked. It's one of my favorite things to do.
Nadine Velazquez
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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
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza
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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.
Octavia E. Butler
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
Walter Savage Landor
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If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
Beau Willimon
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When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and ambition.
Neil Strauss
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You can do clean business in India.
Azim Premji
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When I was young, I liked to be acknowledged in class by little gestures such as a small red star for doing something good. Now that I'm older, I still want to be acknowledged for good work.
Chen Guangbiao
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Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.
Charlotte Bronte
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Even the most impassioned devotee of the ghost story would admit that the taste for it is slightly abnormal, a survival, perhaps, from adolescence, a disease of deficiency suffered by those whose lives and imaginations do not react satisfactorily to normal experience and require an extra thrill
Leslie Poles Hartley
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Ambition interests me because it's such a surefire indicator of damage.
Peter Morgan
