Lily Cole Quotes
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My motivation has always been health - eating healthy and taking care of myself.
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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.
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Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
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Let's practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate.
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Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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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.
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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The Broken Bow group is such a great family and seem like a group of tight-knit people. When I looked for a new label, I wanted to feel I could trust everybody. I wanted motivation to be at an all-time high.
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I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that all of them had in common?' They had too much time on their hands. Even though they were pretty, they lacked something. A woman could be less attractive but with ambition and drive, that's the most beautiful thing.
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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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People make me key chains... someone attached a Dauntless symbol to a silver pen. That one is what I use to sign books. I use that a lot. I like to keep them around because they remind me that people are waiting for these books and that they really love them. It gives me motivation in those times when I'm not feeling very motivated.
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Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.
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My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
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My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.
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It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.
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People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
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The average politician was crooked. That was my ambition, to be a crooked politician. I'd see them in these restaurants, and they'd all hold these conferences. I'd see politicians who were supposed to be on opposite sides of issues all together at one table.
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Historians whose profession is to study the past, are as wary as scientists of the idea that events unfold in a manner that can be predicted. In fact, in a study of history the illusion of inevitability has serious consequences that it is one of the few things that both conservative and socialist historians can agree on.
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My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence.
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I am humbled and grateful for the four years the people of the state of Nevada have given me as governor and I am proud of the work we all did.
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Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn't the key.
