Lauryn Hill Quotes

I didn't have that intense ambition to be a musician or an actress. I just enjoyed it. And by enjoying it, because I loved it, it enabled me to get better at what I was doing, because there was a love behind it.

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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

• I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Actress

• 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
  • Perspective
  • Ambition
  • Grace

• I'm just a musician and a record producer.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Just
  • Musician
  • Producer

• Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Ambition

• I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Black
  • City
  • Water

• I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a company in England. They owned a children's TV show which they put me in as a singer, and I was on the show for three years, and I left the show when I was 18 and started looking for a record contract.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Children
  • Interest
  • Actress

• Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Ambition
  • Avarice

• The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Important
  • Want
  • Competition

• Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

  

  Sallust
  • Men
  • Thought
  • 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

• When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.

  

  Rachel Ward
  • Kind
  • Never
  • Actress

• I went through the process of auditioning like every other struggling actress in this town.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Like
  • Process
  • Actress

• 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

• My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Life
  • Ambition
  • Enjoy Life

• 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

• When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad.

  

  Trevor Charles Horn Art of Noise
  • People
  • Dad
  • Musician

• I made up my mind to be an actress when I was 4 years old.

  

  Eva Gabor
  • Actress

• I'd love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Knew
  • Love It
  • Foo Fighters

• The one hit song that I have tremendous gratitude for is Boots, because it has a life of its own. It's like being identified with a brand name.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Life
  • Song
  • Gratitude

• I'm actually one of the few kids in my grade, especially girls, who didn't end up going to college, just because I already knew what I wanted to do. I had already been actively working in music before I graduated.

  

  Alex Winston
  • Up
  • Music
  • Kids

• I didn't have that intense ambition to be a musician or an actress. I just enjoyed it. And by enjoying it, because I loved it, it enabled me to get better at what I was doing, because there was a love behind it.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Ambition
  • Musician
  • Actress