"I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid."
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"It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall be a cause of suffering, and they shall possess neither the profit nor the beauty of the world."
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"When ambition ends, happiness begins."
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"We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious!"
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"I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in."
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"We don't wish for the easy stuff. We wish for big things. Things that are ambitious, out of reach."
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"I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!"
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"You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you."
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"Ambitious people know that everything they do and every discipline they adhere to, form the links in the chain of events that will lead them to their final destination."
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"When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man."
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"Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men."
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"To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious."
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"I'm ambitious for is to not get caught 'acting'. I want to really feel the role and not let people see the process, or to let them stand back and admire it, because I think that does finally get in the way."
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"All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious."
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"You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm."
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"If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment."
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"So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our solar system, or at least our galaxy, have been disappointed, progressively disappointed. The universe is not responsive to our ambitious expectations."
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"The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness. It is the goal of every other goal. Ben Henretig has embarked on an ambitious project to document a country and culture that has embraced Happiness as a part of its national policy"
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"Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism."
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"Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum."
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