Yogi Berra Quotes
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Our parents were really, really grounded people but also really ambitious people, meaning they saw our ambition and were willing to help us chase it.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
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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.
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We are in a situation with the huge stimulus package that's going to be spent all across this nation and a big financial crisis and banking crisis. And what we need is good, trained journalists who can play the role of watchdog.
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I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that all of them had in common?' They had too much time on their hands. Even though they were pretty, they lacked something. A woman could be less attractive but with ambition and drive, that's the most beautiful thing.
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Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
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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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Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.
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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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There's an appreciation of the whole picture of life as opposed to just ambition and circumstance and all the stuff that happens in this business. You find yourself lucky enough to be working with somebody really talented who you know and who you trust.
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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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Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
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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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People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and anger that moved her along, or she wouldn't have been able to fight against that depression to produce such an incredible body of work by the age of thirty.
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Being an individual takes effort. Most people are pretty lazy. And that's OK! I mean, there are more important things than fashion. If it's going to stress you out to have a sense of style, don't do it. The important thing is to be comfortable so you can get on with your life.
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I just like a good song, it doesn't matter. I mean, I am into girl groups and stuff like that. I listen to anything.
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I have a deeper compassion for those living with cancer, as well as their family members. And now when someone tells me that a loved one passed away, I feel it deeply, as though it were my own relative.
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My ambition is to hit .400 and talk 1.000.
