Bob Kaufman Quotes

I want to be anonymous . . . my ambition is to be completely forgotten.

Bob Kaufman

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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
  • Help
  • Hope
  • Knowledge

• What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • People
  • Words
  • Focus

• Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Ambition

• 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
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Politics

• Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Power
  • Rest
  • Ambition

• I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

  

  Eden Phillpotts
  • Money
  • Never
  • Goal

• Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Good
  • Think
  • Ambition

• It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.

  

  Majandra Delfino
  • Funny
  • Ambition
  • Directing

• 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
  • Writing
  • Career
  • Ambition

• 'Keeper' is about fathers, ultimately. and also conservation, commitment and ambition.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Commitment
  • Ambition
  • Keeper

• 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.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Work
  • Love
  • Ambition

• Sometimes you want to go for a walk and you don't want to be watched. You just want to be anonymous and blend in. Especially when I travel, I feel that way, because I can't really go out and see a city the way other people can and I miss out on a lot.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • City
  • Travel

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • True
  • Poverty

• Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Ambition
  • Nomination

• What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Always
  • Ambition
  • Egg

• The so-called citizen journalism is the spewings and rantings of very drunk people late at night. It is fantastic at times but it is not going to replace journalism. … Most of the blogging is too angry and too abusive. Terrible things are said online because they are anonymous. People say things online that they wouldn't dream of saying in person.'

  

  Andrew Marr
  • People
  • Dream
  • Night

• Ambition, I’ve found, can lead only to failure. I do not read the reviews. No, I am not singing for you.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Singing
  • Failure
  • Ambition

• 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.

  

  Marquis de Sade
  • Life
  • Ambition
  • Revenge

• A lot of guys haven't forgotten. I think that's something that a lot of guys will use to motivate themselves this week.

  

  Brady Quinn
  • I Think
  • Forgotten
  • Motivate

• Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • Long
  • Book

• When I was growing up, my white friends would call me: 'Hey, Chief!' Even when I go to work now, people call me 'Chief.'

  

  Adam Beach
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I want to be anonymous . . . my ambition is to be completely forgotten.

  

  Bob Kaufman
  • Ambition
  • Forgotten
  • Anonymous