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• My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

  Charles Saatchi

  Happiness, Pursuit, Pursuit Of Happiness

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• I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.

  Benjamin Bratt

  School, Style, Training

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• I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.

  Les Baxter

  Song, Way, Fit

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• In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Children, Gun, Thinking

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• You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.

  Emma Donoghue

  Way, Wells

  "Emma Donoghue: the books interview" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2012.

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• I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations.

  Ken Follett

  Motivation, People, Insight

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• To be a writer was always my greatest aim. I remember writing a play about Guy Fawkes when I was 10. I suppose it's significant, at least to me, that my first work should be about a historical figure.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Writing, Play, Guy

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• What could be better in al-Qaeda's mind than to have India and Pakistan going at each other? What more to further their aims?

  Richard Armitage

  India And Pakistan, Mind, Als

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• A terrorist is one who kills innocents for the pursuit of a political aim.

  Richard Armitage

  Political, Pursuit, Terrorist

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• I will aim to restore the Japan-U.S. alliance and Japan's strong diplomatic capabilities. Japan can't pursue a strong foreign policy without strengthening its alliance with the United States.

  Shinzo Abe

  Strong, Japan, United States

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• My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Rights, Government, Names

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. September 1, 2004.

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• If the American people really tire of democracy and want to make a trial of Fascism, I shall be the last person to object. But if that is their mood, then they had better proceed toward their aim by changing the Constitution and not by forgetting it.

  H. L. Mencken

  People, Political, Democracy

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• My aim is to spread more smiles than tears.

  Tupac Shakur

  Inspirational, Tears, Spread

  Song: Hold Ya Head

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• Disillusioned words like bullets bark as human gods aim for their mark.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Media, Entertainment

  Song: It's Alright, Ma, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965

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• Shouldering your loneliness like a gun that you will not learn to aim, you stumble into this movie house then you climb, you climb into the frame.

  Leonard Cohen

  Art, Loneliness, Gun

  Song: Love Calls You By Your Name, Album: Songs of Love and Hate, 1971

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• Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the former with pleasure. In the coming age, art will fashion our entertainment out of new means of productivity in ways that will simultaneously enhance our profit and maximize our pleasure.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Fashion, Art, Mean

  "A Short Organum for the Theatre". Book by Bertolt Brecht, 1949.

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• The understanding between a non-technical writer and his reader is that he shall talk more or less like a human being and not like an Act of Parliament. I take it that the aim of such books must be to convey exact thought in inexact language... he can never succeed without the co-operation of the reader.

  Arthur Eddington

  Book, Science, Understanding

  Arthur Eddington (2012). “New Pathways in Science: Messenger Lectures (1934)”, p.279, Cambridge University Press

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• Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Public Opinion, Culture, Substance

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.732, Modern Library

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• The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability in a man as they do in a telephone or a machine gun, and they train their soldiers to act as a unit, not as individuals.

  Marlon Brando

  Military, Gun, Men

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• Art is an attitude toward life. If you aim your work and your life high, keep your scene harmonious, then you're an artist and your life is art.

  Gage Taylor

  Art, Attitude, Life Is

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• Silly boy, you got so much to live for, so much to aim for, so much to try for.

  Ray Davies

  Silly, Boys, Advice

  Song: Destroyer, Album: Give the People What They Want

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• It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events.

  Dario Fo

  Borders, Limits, Events

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• Normally I begin writing a song with just with aim to express something, and sometimes I don't know what I want to express until a sentence comes to my head that will sum up everything about how I'm feeling at the time.

  Lianne La Havas

  Song, Writing, Feelings

  "La Havas Brings Her Soulful Songs Across The Pond". "Tell Me More" with Celeste Headlee, www.npr.org. December 24, 2012.

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• All war aims for impunity.

  Michael Ignatieff

  War, Impunity

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• Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Heart, Gun, People

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