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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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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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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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
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The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.
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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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I wouldn't trivialize my existence into a hashtag.
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Subjected to this flood of unfamiliar sounds, Baker and his classmates soon found themselves trying to stay afloat in the same boat. Friendships and camaraderie quickly grew, ... We did everything together: lunch, studying, dinner and then socializing.
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Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.
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I'll never get used to living without Mo, but the painful things that surround what happened to him aren't so painful any more - not so raw or so new.
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Before Mozart, all ambition turns to despair.
