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• It would be nice if I was remembered at all. I don't really care about being remembered. I just want to enjoy my life today and do my best while I'm here. I'm not that ambitious, other than to have a good life now.

  Sean Lennon

  Good Life, Nice, Would Be

  "GQ&A: Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl on Mark Ronson, cults and the end of techno". Interview with Tom Ward, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. May 23, 2014.

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• Ambitions for self may be quite modest. . . . Ambitions for God, however, if they are to be worthy, can never be modest. There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God. How can we ever be content that he should acquire just a little more honour in the world? No. Once we are clear that God is King, then we long to see him crowned with glory and honour, and accorded his true place, which is the supreme place. We become ambitious for the spread of his kingdom and righteousness everywhere.

  John Stott

  Kings, Ambition, Self

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• If you start from a belief that the most knowledgeable person on earth does not have even one percent of the total knowledge on earth, that shoots down social engineering, economic central planning, judicial activism, and innumerable other ambitious notions favored by the political left.

  Thomas Sowell

  Engineering, Knowledgeable Person, Political

  "Don't Be So Sure". www.nationalreview.com. May 16, 2007.

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• Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones.

  Robert Menzies

  Thinking, Class, People

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• I think that I would like to have that kind of a budget [hundreds millions dollars] and I think the reasons for it are it gives you more time and it gives you the opportunity to be more ambitious with what you want to do with the camera and also how a scene works. I wouldn't want to direct those kinds of scripts.

  Duncan Jones

  Thinking, Opportunity, Giving

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• Noomi [Rapace] felt fresh. And she's passionate and ambitious in all the right ways. She's a tour de force. Every time I was trying to have a discussion with the actors, she'd be pulling out a blade out from underneath her gypsy skirt and menace someone saying, "Maybe I should slit your throat."

  Kam Williams

  Trying, Passionate, Actors

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• I always wanted to write a book about LA, a big ambitious book. Nobody had ever really done it with LA- treating the city seriously as a major economic and cultural power, as the embodiment of 21st century America.

  James Frey

  Book, Writing, Cities

  Interview with Stephen Elliott, therumpus.net. January 20, 2009.

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• I think the Ambitious Lovers never got their due- we had terrible management and at that point, we were on major labels and we didn't have any music business savvy which we could have used. We made a series of hilarious mistakes not in terms of music but in terms of making it happen.

  Arto Lindsay

  Mistake, Thinking, Labels

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• I'm too ambitious to give another man credit, even if that other man is only myself in disguise.

  Norman Lock

  Men, Giving, Credit

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'd love to win a Grammy! Not ambitious or anything. And just having a really lovely bunch of kids and a happy family life, would be good for me.

  Bat for Lashes

  Kids, Winning, Lovely

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• I was very conceptual about what I was doing; I had the first five albums planned out, and all the songs on every album, and the artwork. I always had these ambitious musical projects in mind.

  St. Lucia

  Song, Musical, Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I firmly believe that digitalization has only just begun in China. In addition to the taxi, transport, shopping and hotel businesses, many other industries will follow: education, health care, administration, even the legal branch - everything, really. There is still a lot of opportunity in China for the inventive and ambitious ones.

  Zhang Xin

  Believe, Opportunity, Shopping

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I surround myself with women who inspire me to be more ambitious, and who constantly astonish me with their magnetism, style, and smarts.

  Heidi Julavits

  Smart, Inspire, Style

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Heidi Julavits". Interview with Angela Stubbs, therumpus.net. October 14, 2012.

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• We're not unique in our family. We're more ambitious but we're not special. I'm not funnier than anyone else in my family; it's just that we wanted more than Raleigh, North Carolina, had to offer. If my brother wanted more than Raleigh had to offer, you would know his name. My sister Lisa has a really unique and different voice, but she doesn't want that. She's a fine writer, but never said, "I want a book. I want that kind of attention."

  David Sedaris

  Brother, Book, Unique

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• When you are starting out you're inspired by so many different things, you just want to be the best, man...and you're just so ambitious; your drive is just at a million!

  Ginuwine

  Men, Different, Want

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• Most comedy is not very ambitious. You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture.

  Harold Ramis

  Names, Comedy, Best Picture

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was not ambitious as a child. My father encouraged me to enter competitions and contests, which became very much part of my life. I was not the typical teenager. I was very closed, shy and didn't hangout with my friends at disco's. My parents wanted me at home. Singing became my life, I traveled a lot on the job, and my job became my dream.

  Laura Pausini

  Dream, Jobs, Children

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• [I am] loyal, ambitious and clever.

  Mike Holloway

  Clever, Loyal

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• I believe ambition is not a dirty word. It's just believing in yourself and your abilities. Imagine this: What would happen if we were all brave enough to be a little bit more ambitious? I think the world would change.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Believe, Dirty, Ambition

  Reese Witherspoon's Speech at Glamour's Women of the Year Awards, www.glamour.com. November 9, 2015.

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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.

  James Young

  Should

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• Michael Bay and his team are experts in exciting tentpole-type film and television, and the combination of their film experience plus the great television writers that have come on will be really successful in bringing us something really unique. We are looking to put on these big canvas shows, and Black Sails is going to fit into that. The scripts have been terrific. Everything that we are trying to do is incredibly ambitious, and this is certainly in that category.

  Chris Albrecht

  Team, Successful, Unique

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious.

  Diablo Cody

  Thinking, Work Out, Pessimist

  "Diablo Cody Talks YOUNG ADULT, the EVIL DEAD Remake, SWEET VALLEY HIGH, Her Directorial Debut, and a Lot More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 16, 2011.

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• I'm ambitious for is to not get caught 'acting'. I want to really feel the role and not let people see the process, or to let them stand back and admire it, because I think that does finally get in the way.

  Harrison Ford

  Thinking, People, Acting

  "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Interview with William Thomas, www.empireonline.com. June, 2002.

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• [Eugene] O'Neill made a living, certainly, at least. But each of these forms have sort of died the death in turn, and it's a simple fact of that universe that talent then migrates away from these forms, and then the amateurs get in, like lunatics in the ruins, sort of pretending to be artists. If you're ambitious enough to want to be a writer to begin with, you want to be a writer in some circumstances where there are rewards, where there's notice, where you don't have to be a teacher, and where you're frankly not nuts for wasting your time.

  William Monahan

  Teacher, Artist, Simple

  Source: collider.com

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• I wasn't very ambitious. I think that's the solution. I just took things as they came. I wouldn't say I didn't have any problem, but I didn't care. I didn't think I was going to save the world by doing photography as some of these people do. I was just having a good time doing it, and so I still had a good time no matter what I had to photograph.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Photography, Thinking, People

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