Charles Gounod Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
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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.
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My dream is to make Katihar a model district. I have no personal ambition.
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My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.
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My ambition is much higher than independence. Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the Earth from the crushing heels of Western exploitation in which England is the greatest partner.
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Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.
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People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.
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Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
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For me, the ages between 9 and 12 were great because it was before you wore any masks, and you had some autonomy in the world. You had some freedom, and you felt you had unlimited ambition. It's when you thought, 'I'm going to write plays. I'm going to be president. I'm going to do this; I'm going to do that.' And then it all falls apart.
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Philly gave me my ambition and drive to get more. It's a reminder to stay on top of my game. That's not a place I want to go back to.
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Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition.
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Ambition interests me because it's such a surefire indicator of damage.
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If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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I have never been so calculating as to sing some Barry White song to get a girl. But I do think it's very romantic to cook dinner and sit around the piano at night and sing together.
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Before Mozart, all ambition turns to despair.
