William Clark Quotes

Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be.

William Clark

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• I never got formal training in music. I would just sit with my ear to the speaker and my hand on the needle. I'd listen to Wanda Jackson and think, 'How did she do that?,' and lift the needle and try it myself.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • She
  • Hand

• I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Dad
  • College
  • Worked

• All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Fear
  • Friend
  • Imagination

• Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It creates both community and exclusion. It brings societies together around shared belief and tears them apart through war. However, what unites the faithful, whatever their religion, is the unshakeable force of generosity.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • World
  • War
  • Together

• I've always known, before I had a record deal, that the thing is to go out and put on the show. I've been doing that from day one.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Day
  • Always
  • Doing

• People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • People
  • War
  • Lie

• Founders Den provides the kind of collaborative and creative atmosphere to foster new ideas not only for emerging new businesses, but government as well.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Government
  • Ideas
  • Creative

• One thinks with awe and longing of this real and extraordinary popularity of hers Edna St. Vincent Millay’s: if there were some poet-Frost, Stevens, Eliot-whom people still read in canoes!

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • People
  • Real

• It’s easy to say that if you were there you would have refused, that you would rather die than participate in the slaughter, but it all looks very different when it’s real, when the moment comes to choose.

  

  Ann Leckie
  • Different
  • Real
  • Die

• With consumers buying two smartphones for every desktop computer they purchase, the demands, challenges and opportunities of the mobile space are reshaping our assumptions about design and user behaviour.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Space
  • Design

• Part of the reason I went to college was that I wanted to fade out peacefully: show everybody I had gone through something that was quite challenging and difficult but did so with grace and poise and got an education.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • Education
  • College

• I wasn't ready to say, I can't play anymore. And I'm still not.

  

  Jamie Moyer

• Those big films are scary things. There's so much money behind those things. There's that hype. You enter a machine.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Money
  • Scary

• Coming from a family where the parents had been together for 40 years, you never imagine that divorce is going to happen to you.

  

  Keeley Hawes
  • Family
  • Together
  • Parents

• If some things don't make me feel good, I stop them. How simple, yet so hard to do.

  

  Martine Syms
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Simple

• All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.

  

  Francoise Sagan
  • People
  • Life
  • Passion

• Too many athletes don't have the ability to set a goal and then carefully go towards it.

  

  Bill Toomey

• It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Live
  • Fight
  • Victory

• The Irish are trying to be American, that's all it is. Everything American does Ireland has to do as well. Next thing you know, the Irish are going to start saying 'aluminum', and that'll be the last straw as far as I'm concerned. If that happens, I'm not going back! Everyone's got their own reasons to dislike Americans, 'aluminum' is top of my fucking list, ladies and gentleman. Aluminum cans, aluminum – what the fuck's aluminum foil? Honestly! Everyone knows it's pronounced 'tin'!

  

  Ed Byrne
  • American
  • Irish
  • Reasons

• 'Masculine and feminime, vertical and horizontal.

  

  Piet Mondrian

• You can't rest on any laurels if they exist, and happily there are some from the franchise, but you have to always expand your own horizon both creatively and technically as well.

  

  Ian Bryce
  • Rest

• Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be.

  

  William Clark
  • Selfish
  • Ambitious
  • Attainment