Ambition Quotes
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My main ambition is to be of use to my country and my people.
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In essence, the Thai people are not materialistic at all. They're not in the least driven by the kind of ambition that drives us. The more I got to know them, and the more time I spent with them, the more I understood that this was a totally legitimate attitude to life, and why not?
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I am a first-time director given an opportunity to pursue an artistic ambition I would not likely have the chance to elsewhere. The budget is excruciatingly tight, I am regularly abused and I expect to be fired sometime before we shoot. It's nice to see that, at Miramax, continuity has been maintained.
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My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.
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If America gave anybody anything it is ambition. Bad things would come out of it because some guys are in a hurry, but that doesn't mean they're evil or anything, it just means they fall into bad grace somehow.
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My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.
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In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition.
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What would rock and roll be without ambition, craziness, danger, and fun?
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Miramax seems to be showing the same faith in Roberto Benigni's 'Pinocchio' that the Republican Party showed in Trent Lott; the live-action version of Carlo Collodi's fairy tale about the wooden puppet whose only ambition was to be a real live boy was sneaked into theaters Christmas Day.
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The stoic drama 'A Somewhat Gentle Man' is photographed in a palate of steel gray tones that match Stellan Skarsgard's complexion. It's a low-blood-pressure version of the kind of thing James M. Cain used to do in his sleep, and its filmmaking accomplishment is as minimalist as its narrative ambition is minimal.
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Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
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As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it.
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TV has a three storyline structure, but 'The Killing' takes on that structure with such ambition.
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Who's more likely to succeed - someone with high skill and no ambition, or no skill and high ambition? If you're an entrepreneur, you can hire as many skilled people for your business as you want.
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Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.
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I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller's thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father’s had become, during his earlier years of a miller’s life.
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Ambition without contribution is of no significance.
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I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you up and elevate your performance. They'll let you know things that you didn't know already and bring you places that you might not have gotten to otherwise.
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I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice. These things can never be hinderance in the way of man, provided he be a man. You will have the practical proof in the near future.
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The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
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I had no ambition to become an actor at all.
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My only ambition is to grow as a musician.
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There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION!
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
