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• David Foster Wallace: I think one of the insidious lessons about TV is the meta-lesson that you’re dumb. This is all you can do. This is easy, and you’re the sort of person who really just wants to sit in a chair and have it easy. When in fact there are parts of us, in a way, that are a lot more ambitious than that. And what we need, I think—and I’m not saying I’m the person to do it. But I think what we need is seriously engaged art, that can teach again that we’re smart. And that there’s stuff that TV and movies—although they’re great at certain things—cannot give us.

  David Lipsky

  Art, Thinking, Giving

  David Lipsky (2010). “Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace”, p.71, Broadway Books

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• First, this is a great job, and i'm excited about it." "Second, i'm ambitious, but i can succeed almost everywhere." "What I can't do anywhere is be with you." "Choosing to be with you isn't a difficult decision, Jacqueline. It's easy. Incredibly easy.

  Tammara Webber

  Jobs, Decision, Firsts

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• When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not marry them. The things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands. When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated and ambitious. Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Inspiring, Sexy, Husband

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.124, Knopf

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• Aggressive and hard-charging women violate unwritten rules about acceptable social conduct. Men are continually applauded for being ambitious and powerful and successful, but women who display these same traits often pay a social penalty. Female accomplishments come at a cost.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Powerful, Successful, Men

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.26, Knopf

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• A modest dress is a very good thing, if it be the genuine indication of a humble heart, and is to instruct; but it is a bad thing if it be the hypocritical disguise of a proud ambitious heart, and is to deceive. Let men be really as good as they seem to be, but not seem to be better than really they are.

  Matthew Henry

  Heart, Humble, Men

  Matthew Henry “Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible: Volume IV-IV - Joel to Malachi”, Lulu.com

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• The ranks of society are once again filled with Ambitious Mamas, whose only aim is to see their Darling Daughters married off to Determined Bachelors

  Julia Quinn

  Daughter, Mama, Determined

  Julia Quinn (2009). “The Viscount Who Loved Me”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Men, Achieve, Gongs

  "Zuckerberg Says Amazon and Apple Are Allies, While Google’s Building “Their Own Little Version of Facebook”". Interview with Charlie Rose, allthingsd.com. November 7, 2011.

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• I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent - a man who has a great smile. He has to make me laugh. I like a man who is very ambitious and driven and who has a good heart and makes me feel safe. I like a man who is very strong and independent and confident - that is very sexy - but at the same time, he's very kind to people.

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Sexy, Strong, Heart

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

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• Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against today. Cleopatra plays an oddly pivotal role in world history as well; in her lifetime, Alexandria is the center of the universe, Rome is still a backwater.

  Stacy Schiff

  Rome, Play, Roles

  "Interview with Stacy Schiff, author of 'Cleopatra'". Interview with John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. December 5, 2010.

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• 'Ape House' is an ambitious novel in several ways, for which it is to be admired, and it is certainly an easy read, but because Gruen is not quite prepared for the philosophical implications of her subject, it is not as deeply involving emotionally or as interesting thematically as it could be.

  Jane Smiley

  Philosophical, Interesting, House

  "Ape House by Sara Gruen - review" by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2011.

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• I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Children, School, Bird

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• I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.

  Barbra Streisand

  Doing Nothing, Kind, Mystery

  "Barbra Streisand: The Legend" by Sheila Weller, www.glamour.com. October 30, 2013.

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• To be honest, I was never very ambitious. And I still am not.

  Christopher Walken

  Honest, Being Honest, Stills

  "Christopher Walken Interview - HAIRSPRAY" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 8, 2007.

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• Sooner or later even the most ambitious glutton must crawl away and seek the solace of the vomitorium.

  Clive Barker

  Solace, Sooner Or Later

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• I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Imagination, Shapes

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. [124]

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• Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.

  George R. R. Martin

  Sleep, Night, Giving

  George R. R. Martin (2016). “A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One”, p.90, Bantam

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• This group had a kind of dark glamour within the castle. They were a motley collection; a mixture of the weak seeking protection, the ambitious seeking some shared glory, and the thuggish gravitating toward a leader who could show them more refined forms of cruelty.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dark, Leader, Groups

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• Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Thinking, Years, Careers

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• The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs, and never care how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.

  Thomas Adams

  Inspirational, Fall, Desire

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• I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.

  Darren Criss

  Bars, Raises, Raising The Bar

  "A Road to Success, Lined With Friends". www.nytimes.com. January 11, 2012.

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• The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Hands, People, Aristocracy

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• Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need.

  Walter Cronkite

  Integrity, Government, People

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• We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious!

  Freeman Dyson

  Ambition, Goal, Needs

  Freeman Dyson (2013). “FROM EROS TO GAIA”, p.280, Pantheon

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• Much-derided chick lit, chick flicks, and chick magazines have left ambitious women in a bind. Why is it that I, a young woman, can read GQ, enjoy Fight Club, and subscribe to Thrillist, while the idea of a guy doing the same with Glamour, 27 Dresses and Daily Candy is nearly unheard of?

  Kathryn Minshew

  Fighting, Ideas, Guy

  "A Movement: The Daily Muse" by Kathryn Minshew, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2011.

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• Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there's a chance of success.

  Peter Diamandis

  Believe, People, Goal

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