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.
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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.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.
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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.
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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 Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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'Keeper' is about fathers, ultimately. and also conservation, commitment and ambition.
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Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
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It's been an ambition of mine, before I even wanted to act, to be involved in animation.
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People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.
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Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
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When the coyote falls, he gets up and brushes himself off; it's preservation of dignity. He's humiliated, and it worries him when he ends up looking like an accordion. A coyote isn't much, but it's better than being an accordion.
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No consumer product improves more drastically, year after year, than the computer.
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The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences.
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On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!
