Ambition Quotes
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It's important not to base your ambition on anybody else's history, but to figure out how best to use your own particular personality and understanding of yourself to help tell other people's stories.
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By just passing through things, I continue to slightly limit myself. I want the jobs that don't say that much. I'm often the stepping stone or the conduit from one thing to another. I love the idea of existing in a film and growing and having bigger arcs, and being in scenes where you're just being, as opposed to talking. That' one of my ambitions, lying ahead.
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Its a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.
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Guard, O my soul, against pomp and glory. And if you cannot curb your ambitions, at least pursue them hesitantly, cautiously. And the higher you go, the more searching and careful you need to be.
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There are politicians who seethe with ambition all the time, and there are a lot of other politicians who don't. I'm in the second category, that's all.
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Pride went before, ambition follows him.
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I'm essentially the result of other people's imagination. And that's fine. Because of other people's imagination, I've played parts I would never have thought I could do. Still, I've never had a hankering or an ambition for any particular role.
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Putin wants to restore the Russian empire. That's his ambition; he's stated it many times.
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L'ambition déplaît quand elle est assouvie... Monté sur le faîte, il aspire à descendre.
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Ever since childhood I have scorned the commonplace limits so often set upon human ambition. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone; best both for the body and the mind.
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I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.
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What's a better foundation for drama? You have power, you have ambition, you have sex... that's the stuff of drama.
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The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
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Somebody is always suspecting Russia of having some ambitions, there are always those who are trying to misinterpret us or keep something back.
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Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.
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I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me.
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I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.
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Bullies will attack your confidence, but you cannot let them kill your ambition.
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I love musicals but it's very, very different. It's really just a different form than serious drama, and has very different rules and a completely different set of characters and requirements and ambitions. It maybe shouldn't be as separate as it is, but it's got a different history. In terms of serious drama, I think you'd have to say that you could break it down essentially into the narrative realist tradition and experimental theater.
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The only ambition I ever had going into and committing to wanting to be an actor was to live my life.
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Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow.
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Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.
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It is not wealth, it is not station, it is not social standing and ambition which can make us worthy of the Jewish name, of the Jewish heritage. To be worthy of them, we must live up to and with them. We must regard ourselves their custodians.
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They that soar too high, often fall hard.
