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• Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies

  Bob Hope

  People, Dancing, Body

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• Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

  Rebecca Miller

  Disease

  "Miller's own tale". Interview with Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2003.

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• Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

  Anne Shirley

  Interesting, Doe, Green Gables

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• I see my face in the mirror, and I said, No, my ambition is not to be an actor.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Mirrors, Actors, Faces

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• With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.

  Shane Warne

  Attitude, Player, Australia

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• My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Nominations, Governors

  Lajos Kossuth, Francis William Newman (1854). “Select Speeches of Kossuth”, p.21

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• We should, I believe, beware of the pitfalls described by Taine: 'Imagine a man who sets out on a voyage equipped with a pair of spectacles that magnify things to an extraordinary degree. A hair on his hand, a spot on the tablecloth, the shifting fold of a coat, all will attract his attention; at this rate, he will not go far, he will spend his day taking six steps and will never get out of his room.' We have to get out of this room.

  Robert Kennedy

  Believe, Men, Hair

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• We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?

  George Sand

  Stupid, People, Taste

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.13, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness.

  Heather Donahue

  Nice, Levels, Niceness

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• Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

  Adam Ant

  Inspirational, Business, Achievement

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• Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

  Bob Dylan

  Order, Needs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.

  Juliette Binoche

  Beautiful, Encounters, Making Money

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• My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me.

  Graham Roberts

  Giving, Spurs, Capacity

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• My ambition is not to be just a good fighter. I want to be great, something special.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Special, Want, Fighter

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• To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Greatness, Ends, Intrigue

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1859). “The Oxford Thackeray: With Illustrations”, p.989

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• You must always strive to be the best, but you must never believe that you are.

  Juan Manuel Fangio

  Motivational, Believe, Humility

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• Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Giving Up, Hollywood

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• We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Work, Nice

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• Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?

  Seneca the Younger

  Hero, Vanity, Patriot

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• It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.

  Franz Liszt

  Glowing, Wish, Instruction

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• That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.

  Jock Sturges

  People, Interesting, Looks

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• Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Mean, Self, People

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.81, Modern Library

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• Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Animal, Littles, Masters

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• If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Has Beens, Ifs

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  The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Funny, Cute, Movie

  1954 In the Journal American, 22 Feb.

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