Eliza Cook Quotes
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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 -
Our parents were really, really grounded people but also really ambitious people, meaning they saw our ambition and were willing to help us chase it.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza -
My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.
Canelo Alvarez -
So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.
Katey Sagal -
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
Walter Savage Landor
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
Sallust -
The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.
Fernando Torres -
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
Sallust -
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
Eden Phillpotts -
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.
Wayne Knight -
It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.
Majandra Delfino
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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 -
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.
Iain Sinclair -
'Keeper' is about fathers, ultimately. and also conservation, commitment and ambition.
Mal Peet -
Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
Daley Thompson -
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Samuel Johnson -
It's been an ambition of mine, before I even wanted to act, to be involved in animation.
Taron Egerton
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I am there to entertain. I call my work high escape fiction; it's high, it's good - but it's escape, and I have no delusions about that. I have no ambition to be a serious writer, whatever that means.
Alan Furst -
The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.
Scilla Elworthy -
I am very domesticated. I find I really enjoy it.
Samantha Fox -
There is nothing worse than a spoilt brat.
Keren Woodward Bananarama -
On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!
Eliza Cook