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I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life. ~ Eva Gabor
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My ambition is peace and perfection. ~ DeForest Kelley
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England. ~ Idris Elba
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And yet to possess a young soul that has barely developed is a source of very deep delight. It is like a flower whose richest perfume goes out to meet the first ray of the sun. One must pluck it at that very moment and, after inhaling its perfume to one's heart's content, discard it along the wayside on the chance that someone will pick it up. I sense in myself that insatiable avidity that devours everything in its path. And I regard the sufferings and joys of others merely in relation to myself, as food to sustain my spiritual strength. Passion is no longer capable of robbing me of my sanity. My ambition has been crushed by circumstances, but it has manifested itself in a new form, for ambition is nothing but lust for power, and my greatest pleasure I derive from subordinating everything around me to my will. Is it not both the first token of power and its supreme triumph to inspire in others the emotions of love, devotion and fear? Is it not the sweetest fare for our vanity to be the cause of pain or joy for someone without the least claim thereto? And what is happiness? Pride gratified. Could I consider myself better and more powerful than anyone else in the world, I would be happy. Were everybody to love me, I'd find in myself unending wellsprings of love. Evil begets evil; one's first suffering awakens a realization of the pleasure of tormenting another. The idea of evil cannot take root in the mind of man without his desiring to apply it in practice. Someone has said th ~ Mikhail Lermontov
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When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names ... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny - yet something that seemed real rock 'n' roll ... something that acknowledged my ambition. ~ Billy Idol
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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. ~ Jack Kirby
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Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly. ~ Horace
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So in the end, was it worth it? Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It's always the last day of summer and I've been left out in the cold with no door to get back in. I'll grant you I've had more than my share of poignant moments. Life passes most people by while they're making grand plans for it. Throughout my lifetime, I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost not enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. There are no more white horses or pretty ladies at my door. ~ George Jung
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The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. ~ William Penn
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My ambition is to unfold the sources of India in the profound plane of human nature. ~ Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, 'If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the Y, that would be the culmination of existence!' And then the roller rink, and you work your way up branch by branch. ~ Neil Peart
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My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud. ~ Elie Wiesel
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As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands. ~ Lord Byron
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That's always my ambition is to create a character out of what will help tell the story. I've never been an actor to say my character wouldn't do that, because he should do that in order to help tell the story. ~ Harrison Ford
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My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
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My most important inspirational job that I do is raising those kids. That's my job. And that's where my ambition goes. But I have a life. I'm not only their mother. I'm still who I was before, I just don't get to be it all the time. ~ Pat Benatar
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It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film. ~ Paul McCartney
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Do you know what my ambition is in life? To be without ambition. As far back as I can remember I've been absolutely hag-ridden. I'd like to attain the state of mind that the Indians call Nirvana. That, for me, would happen if I were free of ambition. ~ Tallulah Bankhead
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I want to be anonymous ... my ambition is to be completely forgotten, ~ Bob Kaufman
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I feel bad that people think that "feminism" is a dirty word. I don't understand that at all, I'm proud to be labeled a feminist. I consider myself a person who has throughout my entire life stood up for myself. It's never been my ambition to be someone who takes a backseat to anything. I'm not a male basher at all. I divide people into assholes and non-assholes, and that's genderless. I encounter sexism everyday. ~ Janeane Garofalo
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What am I in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then - even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart. That is my ambition, based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum. ~ Vincent Van Gogh
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It seems beyond the comprehension of people that someone can be born to draw comic strips, but I think I was. My ambition from earliest memory was to produce a daily comic strip. ~ Charles M. Schulz
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Caring for others tends to be the first cut when we review our personal time budget. It does not necessarily fulfill the goals of my ambition; it will not pave the way for my success; it takes away from my own depleted emotional resources. It is an imposition in every way. To some of us, it is an inconvenience from which we unashamedly run. We have become experts in maintaining a grand scope of friendships and amateurs in genuine intimacy and care. Unwittingly, we have sacrificed everything on the altar of self-sufficiency - only to discover that we have sold our souls to isolation. ~ Sandy Oshiro Rosen
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Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first. ~ Archie Panjabi
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There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London and if one day I'm in a position to run for mayor, then terrific. ~ Trevor Phillips
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For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my ambition and settled down to a life of reading. ~ Diane Setterfield
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Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful. ~ Babyface
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The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all. ~ Swami Vivekananda
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I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but that other voice never fled from me. ~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
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My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free. ~ Venus Williams
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Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. ~ Johnny Depp
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As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman. ~ Lynn Davies
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Do not calculate what I have done, for I shall accept no recompense. Calculate the public advantage, the welfare and liberty of my country, and believe that I shall refuse no burden, no danger, provided that, at the hour of tranquillity, I may return to private life, for there now remains but one step for my ambition - that of arriving at zero. ~ Marquis De Lafayette
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It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word. ~ Winston Churchill
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Verisimilitude is not my ambition. Everything I do is façade. ~ Tom Ipri
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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. ~ Carroll Shelby
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You want the secret off my succes; my recipe? I have always brought the same care to making an adventure novel, a serialized novel, that others would bring to the making of a poem. My ambition was to raise the level of this much maligned genre. ~ Gaston Leroux
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I'm nothing but my ambition to become more than the marionette others created me to be. ~ Jennifer Megan Varnadore
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My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living. ~ Graham Norton
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My ambition was to live like music. ~ Mary Gaitskill
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition," he wrote. "I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. ~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
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20 and thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else's foundation, 21 but as it is written, Those who have never been told of him will see, and those who have never heard will understand. ~ Anonymous
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My ambition for station was always easily controlled. If the place came to me it was welcome. But it never seemed to me worth seeking at the cost of self-respect, or independence. My family were not historic; they were well-to-do, did not hold or seek office. It was easy for me to be contented in private life. An honor was no honor to me, if obtained by my own seeking. ~ Rutherford B. Hayes
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In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people. ~ Panayiotis Zavos
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My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor. ~ Jon Landau
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Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will. ~ A.W. Tozer
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My ambition was to embrace those general qualities that Ernest Hemingway, a former newspaperman, once said should be present in all good books: 'the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.' ~ Pete Hamill
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Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures. ~ Alessandro Del Piero
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Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion. ~ Anatoli Boukreev
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Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me. ~ Anna Held
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It's hard to transport myself forward in time, and the scarcity of opportunity back then kind of fueled my ambition. But back in my day, every family I knew had a Super 8 camera, and that's what I first picked up. We adapt to the technology we have available. But for the kids of today, they can really make something great with what is available. ~ Todd Haynes
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I can be intolerably jealous and I think that's what's driven me. My ambition knows no end. ~ Jonathan Rhys Meyers
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My ambition was to be cosmopolitan. I grew up in the suburbs. I went to college in Maine. I had a dream in my head that if you wanted to be the most urbane, living-life-to-the-fullest kind of person, Paris was the place to be. ~ Rosecrans Baldwin
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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. ~ Benjamin Franklin
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I'm not a heroine, I just play heroines. Also psychotics, vamps, orphans, hookers, housewives, and "on one memorable occasionâ "a singing rutabaga. It was never my ambition to utilize my extensive dramatic training by playing a musical vegetable. However, as my agent is so fond of pointing out, there are more actors in New York than there are people in most other cities. Translation: Beggars can't be choosers. ~ Laura Resnick
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I want to make big films. That's always been my ambition. ~ David Brooks
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When I was young," wrote Jim, "my ambition was to be one of the people who makes a difference in this world. My hope still is to leave this world a little bit better for my being here."

And he did. ~ Brian Jay Jones
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. ~ Ambrose Bierce
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At the core of everything I do, is not my ambition but my desire to make music. Somewhere along the line I stumbled onto something that was bigger, different than anything I had ever imagined, which was actually being involved with other people. I just don't live the average artist's life. ~ El-P
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As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him. ~ William Shakespeare
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My ambitions have ambitions. ~ Behdad Sami
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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
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I guess my ambition is simply to keep doing what I'm doing for as long as I can. ~ Kristan Higgins
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When I was growing up, I said I wanted to be a model, but people said I had no chance and when I realized my ambition, people in the business still continued to state negative stuff. ~ Katie Price
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Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. ~ Milan Kundera
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My ambition is to not have to work any more. In 10 years I want to stop, and I want to be living with my family, taking care of my house. I want to be a housewife. ~ Paz Vega
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My ambition is to not embarrass myself
which, if you know me, is a pretty serious ambition. ~ David Lipsky
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The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in business success. If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right. ~ John D. Rockefeller
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My ambition was to become the best climber and I never did. I think that goal was a wrong goal. A better one is to put more emphasis on enjoyment and on getting a rounded experience and on things like friendship, rather than on sheer achievement. ~ Royal Robbins
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I have no political ambitions whatsoever. My ambitions are all about what XL can become. ~ Mike McGavick
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Salvador Dalí's aberrations are partly explicable. Perhaps they are a way of assuring himself that he is not commonplace. The two qualities that Dali unquestionably possesses are a gift for drawing and an atrocious egoism. 'At seven', he says in the first paragraph of his book, 'I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.' This is worded in a deliberately startling way, but no doubt it is substantially true. Such feelings are common enough. 'I knew I was a genius', somebody once said to me, 'long before I knew what I was going to be a genius about. ~ George Orwell
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My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each mark, and the interval between each mark must give something back on its own terms. ~ Andrew Forge
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This was my ambition: to become a good wife and mother. Plus one improbable extra: [ ... ] to find, deep inside, my own wiser self, to locate my own special future.
I thought these were modest ambitions. They didn't seem too yawning or huge. But perhaps wanting what's essential and simple is the most extravagant wish of all. ~ Lydia Minatoya
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My ambition is not to leave behind me a pile of money for my heirs to quarrel about, but to find out what there is of interest in this world before I cross the border and begin to explore the other world. ~ George H. Hepworth
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My ambition didn't grow out of nowhere. It was planted in me by a community that nurtured me. ~ Michael Eric Dyson
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It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless. ~ William Faulkner
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To all my gentle readers who have treated me with love for over 30 years, I must say farewell. It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys, but that's not the way it worked out. I have had a long and happy life and I have no complaints about the ending, thereof, and so farewell - farewell. ~ Isaac Asimov
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I couldn't let you sacrifice yourself for me."

"Its not a sacrifice. My ambition has just changed. ~ Mariah Marsden
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Because I'm tired of Wessex," I said, "tired of priests, tired of being told what your god's will is, tired of being told that I'm a sinner, tired of your endless damned nonsense, tired of that nailed tyrant you call god who only wants us to be miserable. And I refused to give the oath because my ambition is to go back north, to Bebbanburg, and to kill the men who hold it, and I cannot do that if I am sworn to Edward and he wants something different of me. ~ Bernard Cornwell
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From "boyhood up," as Lincoln once confided to his old friend Ward Hill Lamon, "my ambition was to be President. ~ Harold Holzer
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The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in. ~ Vivienne Westwood
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It is not my ambition to marry a white woman or swim in a white pool. It is political equality that we want. ~ Nelson Mandela
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I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition. ~ Emmanuelle Beart
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All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go. ~ Charles Cotton
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I didn't decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in, or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president. ~ John McCain
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My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize. ~ Alexandra Roach
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Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the harvest. To be this ploughman, to see my labours result in the furtherance of scientific progress, was the height of my ambition, and now the Swedish Academy of Sciences has come, at this harvest, to add the most brilliant of crowns. ~ Paul Sabatier
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Fiction's essential activity is to imagine how others feel, what a Saturday afternoon in an Italian town in the 2nd Century looked like. My ambition is solely to get some effect, as of light on stone in a forest on a September day. ~ Guy Davenport
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I would like to have insights into things like government, all those big ideas that you brought up that I simply don't have ideas about. I would like to be able to since so many people discuss them, but I don't want to work at them. I don't think my ambition is that strong in that direction. ~ Jasper Johns
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My great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually I'd like to write something of great importance. That's my ambition-to write something worthwhile. ~ Jim Morrison
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It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys. ~ Isaac Asimov
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Philly gave me my ambition and drive to get more. It's a reminder to stay on top of my game. That's not a place I want to go back to. ~ Meek Mill
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I bow to no one in my ambition to see Glasgow be as successful as it possibly can be. ~ Nicola Sturgeon
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I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition. ~ David Byrne
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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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My ambition is that I have the best players
who can collaborate with each other to form
the best team in the world. ~ Louis Van Gaal
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When I was alone, I'd admit I didn't love her. At that point in my life I felt incapable of any kind of real love. In the deepest recesses of my personality, in places that it was hard for even me to fathom, I was a cold, hardhearted person capable of using people to further my ambition and then throw them away without second thought. ~ Benjamin Smith
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I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery. ~ David Morrissey
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Philip revealed his carefully cloaked emotions when he wrote to his mother-in-law, "Cherish Lilibet? I wonder if that word is enough to express what is in me." He declared that his new wife was "the only 'thing' in this world which is absolutely real to me, and my ambition is to weld the two of us into a new combined existence that will not only be able to withstand the shocks directed at us but will also have a positive existence for the good ~ Sally Bedell Smith
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