"The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all."
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"True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition."
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"Great ambition is the passion of a great character."
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"I regret trusting The Guardian. I didn't want to do an interview, but the journalist was persistent. [The writer] was masked as a fan, but was hiding sinister ambitions and angles. Maybe he's actually the boring one looking for something interesting to write about."
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"If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal."
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"My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans."
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"You always have to know what the ambition of the scene is, what the purpose of that scene is in the telling of the story overall, so that you're there to support the story."
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"What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one."
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"Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it."
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"I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. What power wouldn't I trade for a little more time with my family? What price wouldn't I pay for an evening with friends? It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime."
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"To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition"
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"We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious!"
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"Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision."
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"The men who succeed are the efficient few."
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"Your life, my life, the life of each one of us is going to serve as either a warning or an example. A warning of the consequences of neglect, self-pity, lack of direction and ambition... or an example of talent put to use, of discipline self-imposed, and of objectives clearly perceived and intensely pursued."
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"Elections to office, which are the great objects of ambition, I look at with terror!"
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"...it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again."
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"I wasn't the typical pageant girl - I was a little more nerdy, and they gave me a voice. I created the Queen of the Universe pageant, which is charity-based, to benefit UNESCO. For me, the most important thing is that contestants have a charity-based platform or charity ambition."
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"We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!"
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"While we may not live to see the full realization of our ambition, we will have the satisfaction of knowing that the world we leave to our children will be better off for what we did."
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