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• Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Ambitious, Clown, Grocers

  "The Sun Watches the Sun" by Dejan Stojanovic, Sunce sebe gleda, Književna reč, Beograd, "Game III," (p. 98), 1999.

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• You always have to know what the ambition of the scene is, what the purpose of that scene is in the telling of the story overall, so that you're there to support the story.

  Harrison Ford

  Support, Purpose, Stories

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. January 20, 2010.

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• I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do

  Tracey Ullman

  Burning, Plans

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• Any crusade requires optimism and the ambition to aim high

  Paul Allen

  Optimism, Crusades, Aim High

  Paul Allen (2011). “Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft”, p.237, Penguin

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• You see, that hunger inside us, that ambition, or whatever you may choose to call it, is a compass really, a compass of true desire. And if you will be happy, you must follow that desire, no matter which way the needle points.

  Kathe Koja

  Desire, May, Matter

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• Companies that succeed are driven by internal ambition. Stock price doesn’t drive them. Ambition and values drive them.

  Sumantra Ghoshal

  Succeed, Driven, Stock Price

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• I don’t think that anyone has really told (people) what design is. It doesn’t occur to most people that everything is designed--that every building and everything they touch in the world is designed. Even foods are designed now. So in the process of helping people understand this, making them more aware of the fact that the world around us is something that somebody has control of, perhaps they can feel some sense of control, too. I think that’s a nice ambition.

  Bill Moggridge

  Nice, Thinking, People

  "In Remembrance Of Bill Moggridge, 1943-2012" by Linda Tischler, www.fastcodesign.com. September 10, 2012.

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• I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you up and elevate your performance. They'll let you know things that you didn't know already and bring you places that you might not have gotten to otherwise.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Careers, People, Might

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

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• I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

  Peter Straub

  Writing, Fiction, Academic

  "PETER STRAUB: Connoisseur of Fear". Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. June, 1997.

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• Afghanistan is the most daring and ambition mission in the history of NATO.

  George W. Bush

  Missions, Daring, Afghanistan

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• We've seen their kind before. The terrorists are the heirs to fascism. They have the same wield of power, the same disdain for the individual, the same mad global ambitions. And they will be dealt with in just the same way. Like all fascists, the terrorists can not be appeased. They must be defeated. This struggle will not end in a truce or a treaty. It will end in victory for the United States, our friends and for the cause of freedom.

  George W. Bush

  Struggle, Mad, Victory

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• It's all about how can you take care of yourself when furthering your life's goals and ambitions, and purpose and whatever you choose - family, career - to maintain a really balanced, whole, healthy outlook.

  Abigail Spencer

  Careers, Goal, Healthy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Nature has a way sometimes of reminding Man of just how small he is. She occasionally throws up terrible offspring's of our pride and carelessness to remind us of how puny we really are in the face of a tornado, an earthquake, or a Godzilla. The reckless ambitions of Man are often dwarfed by their dangerous consequences. For now, Godzilla - that strangely innocent and tragic monster - has gone to earth. Whether he returns or not, or is never again seen by human eyes, the things he has taught us remain...

  Raymond Burr

  Eye, Pride, Men

  "Fictional character: Steve Martin". "Godzilla 1985", www.imdb.com. 1984.

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• There is not a man in America who has not had a secret ambition to boot an infant.

  W. C. Fields

  Men, America, Secret

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• Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions, they should be told that everything they have done since their first childhood poems, printed in the school paper, has been preparation for entering a long, long apprenticeship.

  Wallace Stegner

  Writing, School, College

  "On Teaching and Writing Fiction".

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• I wanted to be the exception to the other kids, but in the right way.
  We have a lot of suffering in our part of the world, but that suffering is, in a way, a blessing.
  Obviously, I could not afford to go to school without a scholarship, so that meant I had to excel in order to get one.

  Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

  Inspirational, Pain, School

  "The Grass is Greener... On Both Sides". Jordan Business Magazine Interview, December 2006.

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• The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Men, Degrees, Analysis

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.7, University of Georgia Press

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• Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.

  A. Street

  Men, Secret, Desire

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• There are some who question the scale of our ambitions, who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short, for they have forgotten what this country has already done, what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Memories, Men

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• Ambition is the ecclesiastical lust.

  Daniel Noonan

  Lust

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• I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition.

  David Byrne

  New York, Artist, Fine

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• There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice but in a vicious mind: in a virtuous mind it is a virtue, and will be found to take its color from the character in which it is mixed. Ambition is a desire of superiority; and a man may become superior, either by making others less or himself greater.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Passion, Character, Men

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• Two men are equally free from the rage of ambition; are they therefore equal in merit? Perhaps not; one may be above ambition, the other below it.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Men, Two, May

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• It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.

  Gentry Lee

  Able, Infinity, Shame

  Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee (2012). “Rama II”, p.314, RosettaBooks

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• He (William Cort) had some desire to be successful, but it did not burn so strongly in him that he was prepared to overcome his character to achieve it.

  Iain Pears

  Character, Successful, Desire

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