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• I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

  Amy Poehler

  Strong Women, Badass, Powerful

  "Amy Poehler Tells Katie Couric, "I Just Love Bossy Women!"". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. March 28, 2011.

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• My attitude goes back to my childhood. I used to audition for theatrical roles, and you can't stand out in a room full of ambitious eight-year-old girls by acting the wallflower. I realised then that I couldn't do things half-heartedly.

  Jessie J

  Girl, Attitude, Eight

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

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• Many developing countries are enjoying demographic changes. They have a younger demographic composition so they're not burdened by legacy policy. Now, if you combine this with a good macro policy and ambitious structural policy, those countries are able to move more flexibly and be more agile.

  Sri Mulyani Indrawati

  Country, Moving, Legacy

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• My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into the Army and posted to Libya, she convinced some general to let her go with him. I don't know how she managed it.

  Jo Brand

  Dad, Army, Political

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• People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.

  Graydon Carter

  Nice, Thinking, People

  "Graydon Carter: Literati? Glitterati? I'd rather have a quiet night in with the missus". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2009.

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• I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Would Be, Monstrosity, Gross

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• I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Thinking, Way, Succeed

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

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• The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.

  Simon Cowell

  Hard Work, People, Work Ethic

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• Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, primarily due to his mother's expectations of him.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Mother, Men, Expectations

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• It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn.

  Annie Dillard

  Book, Writing, Long

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.85, Canongate Books

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• Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

  Vera Farmiga

  Ambition, Thinking, Good Things

  "Vera Farmiga: 'I demand a lot from myself'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2011.

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• I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrifyingly, tended to succeed.

  Neil Gaiman

  People, Succeed, Aptitude

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• I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.

  Zaha Hadid

  Reality, Design, Proud

  "Zaha Hadid: 'Being an Arab and a woman is a double-edged sword'". Interview with Huma Qureshi, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2012.

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• Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.

  Zaha Hadid

  Block, Believe, Differences

  "I don't do nice" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2006.

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• It is very difficult for any couple who are married if both people are ambitious. I don't know if it's just too hard to be married to a woman that wants to be a movie star.

  Ethan Hawke

  Stars, Couple, People

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• I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.

  Natalie Portman

  Kids, Serious, Different

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• I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom, that I don't want anything. I don't want money or prizes. I want people to know that a war is going to be fought.

  Arundhati Roy

  Real, War, Thinking

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• I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.

  Ned Vizzini

  Lazy, Know How, Knows

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• On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Happiness, Men, Should Have

  Benjamin Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ..., 1”, p.138

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• I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quite, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your parents, you will find you have plenty of time later to catch up.

  Mindy Kaling

  Teenager, Kids, Parent

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• Now let me be clear; millions of women around the world nurse their children beautifully for years without giving anybody else a hard time about it. Teat Nazis are a solely western upper-middle-class phenomenon occurring when highly ambitious women experience deprivation from outside modes of achievement.

  Tina Fey

  Children, Hard Times, Years

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• You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hate, Ideas, Different

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• Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here I clip The anvil of my sword, and do contest As hotly and as nobly with thy love As ever in ambitious strength I did Contend against thy valour. Know thou first, I loved the maid I married; never man Sigh'd truer breath; but that I see thee here, Thou noble thing! more dances my rapt heart Than when I first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Moon, Men

  William Shakespeare (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.137

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• If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before – then I think we must suspect that his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Thinking, Action

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly

  Gretchen Rubin

  Fun, Creative, Failing

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