Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes
Ambition makes you look pretty ugly Kicking, squealing Gucci little piggy.
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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.
Lars Peter Hansen
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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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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
Karl Marx
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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.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
Rachel Kushner
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
Walter Savage Landor
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I've felt ugly and insecure.
Irina Shayk
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Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.
Fetty Wap
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It's tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.
Victor LaValle
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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
Victor Hugo
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.
Queen Victoria
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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.
Eden Phillpotts
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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
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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.
Iain Sinclair
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'Keeper' is about fathers, ultimately. and also conservation, commitment and ambition.
Mal Peet
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Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
Daley Thompson
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My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.
Ilie Nastase
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But 'tis common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round, he then turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the vase defrees by which he did ascend.
William Shakespeare
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The networks have to answer to their sponsors. That's the difficult thing you learn.
Jean Smart
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My approach to portraiture is conceptual.
Amy Sherald
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Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great.
Barack Obama
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I think my life has been transformed by the ability to take things that exist in the world and look at them more closely. I think that's what art does at its best: it allows us to slow down.
Kehinde Wiley
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Ambition makes you look pretty ugly Kicking, squealing Gucci little piggy.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace