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"My response [to fear of being poor]was to study contracts, finance, economics, to plan, to have a goal, to work on that goal. To learn everything I could. I always poked at the things that scared me most."
"My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles."
"If you had one goal, and that was to feel good, you would never again need to hear another word from anyone. You would live successfully and happily and in a way of fulfilling your life's purpose ever after."
"I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I can in as interesting a range of roles as I can."
"Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal."
"I am passionate about exploring the confluence of environmental and human health. I believe that the goals of conservation must constantly revisit a stated purpose."
"Drive thy business or it will drive thee."
"That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible"
"Optimism boosts your energy and focuses your sights on reaching your goals, rather than wallowing in your setbacks."
"A dream is what you would like your life to become. A goal is what you are truly willing to do to achieve what you really want."
"Winners can tell you where they are going and what they plan to do along the way."
"Goals are like stepping-stones to the stars. They should never be used to put a ceiling or a limit on achievement"
"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"
"That field goal attempt was so far to the left it nearly decapitated Lyndon LaRouche."
"I hope somebody makes a movie about Obama's life soon because I could play him. That's the goal. I watch all the addresses. Any time I see him on TV, I don't change the channel. I definitely pay attention and listen to the inflections of his voice. If you ask anyone who knows me, I'm pretty good at impressions."
"My goals are something I believe in, because I believe I'm going to make it."
"You have to dream big, wish hard and chase after your goals, because no one is going to do it for you."
"I'm a little lavish I must admit. But I'm not really concerned with money. Being rich is not my goal, being wealthy is."
"My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government."
"For all these infectious diseases, the goal is to eventually get rid of them. And to do that we need to invent new tools, but nobody was doing that because there was no money to buy on behalf of the poorest, even the existing tools."
