"I am the worst judge of how a movie is going to do. I always have great and ambitious hopes, but none of them see the light of day."
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"The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy."
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"Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof."
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"I'm not ambitious. Not a bit."
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"I'm told [ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is ambitious. I hope he's very ambitious; ambition may help him see reality."
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"Psychologically speaking, one may say that the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does he want to appear virtuous before others, he wants to convince himself."
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"I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrifyingly, tended to succeed."
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"Evidently, there are many great American writers. But sometimes it can feel as though American fiction is dominated by relatively linear narrative form, with a heavy emphasis on psychological realism. If you limit yourself to a certain kind of American literary fiction, it's easy to forget about the different kinds of books that are being written. You can forget to be ambitious, both as a reader and a writer."
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"The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means."
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"The progressive agenda is actually legitimated by the incomprehension and anger it elicits: If the people do not resent and resist what is being done on their behalf, what is being done is not properly ambitious. If it is comprehensible to its intended beneficiaries, it is the work of insufficiently advanced thinkers."
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"It is so easy to "calibrate" -that is, given the pressures on a smaller company to redefine in less ambitious terms- that which you are in business to accomplish. The moment this happens the downward spiral begins."
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"I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of."
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"I am very ambitious in a way, in that I'm not trying to be the richest guy or whatever. I just really like my work."
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"I guess I should be more ambitious about practicing, but when I'm out on the road, that's about all I do."
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"Does life continue beyond the door? The fulfilment of life is not annihilation - on the contrary - I am much more ambitious, much more desirous, much more eager than you are. It is Life. Therefore it cannot be annihilation, for you cannot annihilate Life!"
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"When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust."
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"Ambitious, absorbing, and poignantly moving."
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"I was always ambitious. I always wanted to be more than I was....I always wanted to be a movie actor."
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"My energy level is very high ... how ambitious it all is depends on lots of different things. But pretty high energy level. I take on a lot of projects at the same time."
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